I recently celebrated my 25th birthday. This was the second birthday I’ve been blessed to celebrate outside of my home in the U.S. The first being my 16th birthday which I celebrated in Paraguay, where I was volunteering for the summer.
So on that fun note, here’s 24 things I’m thankful for in celebration of finishing out my 24th year on the Race:
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For my family, friends and supporters
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For newfound lifelong friends I made on the Race
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For You Lord
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For all the Korean food I’ve been able to find around the world
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For my parents and God’s provision in bringing them both out to see me for PVT in Romania
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For the friendships my mom made with other moms at PVT
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For my dad coming back to You after PVT
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For my growth in intimacy with the Lord
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For the Lord always being there for me during the highs and lows
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For His unfailing grace, goodness and love
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For all delicious international foods I’ve been blessed to try
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For running water
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For fresh veggies and fruits
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For each bed or mattress I’ve been able to lay my head upon at night
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For community
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For vulnerability
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For being able to celebrate another birthday internationally
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For His traveling mercies
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For mama’s prophesy over me
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For my spiritual African mom
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For my health all throughout the Race, (even when I was sick in Peru b/c I had an amazing community that watched over me)
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For all the cultures I got to experience and live into
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For all the people I got to meet around the world
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For being here on the Race
Here’s to another year!
On that note, here’s what I’m doing in my LAST AND FINAL MONTH!!!
MONTH 11: U G A N D A
The last and final month… woah… it feels sooo weird to type that. Typing out month 11 seems so surreal… how did I get here?
I have no idea!
Where Are We?
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My team and I are working with two other teams, team Light Sabers and team Sisters with a British non-profit organization called LightForce in the city of Lira, Uganda.
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The campus we are living on is actually a lodge with huts.
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At night, you can see the stars glowing and the beautiful Milky Way.
Ministry Set-Up:
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Amongst the three teams we are spread out doing either manual labor or teaching
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Many of us have been doing a lot of manual labor, including but not limited to:
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From moving things out of a large, dusty warehouse, that once had mice and cockroaches running around (we killed a lot of them)
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Digging up holes to put posts in for a goat pen
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Moving stones around the compound
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Picking corn underneath the heat of the sun, sunscreen and a cap are essential
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Laying out maize kernels to dry out in the sun
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We’ve also have been give opportunities to go out to the community and evangelize and other things including…
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Checking students’eyes sight: I’ve been able to give out “eye tests” to students at LightForce Primary School through the book, “Eye See a Dragon In the Glen”z
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We’ve had and currently still do have visitors from the U.K doing minsitry with us, which has been so cool! George our host, founded a church in the U.K which many of them attend. He also founded the current organization we are working with.
Food:
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Breakfast is a bit light with a boiled egg, instant coffee or tea (I of course drink the coffee) and some type of bread, either plain bread, or a yummy dount-like bread or our favorite chipati.
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Lunch is vegetarian style and usually includes a maize-flour dish called pojo, stewed beans, and cooked kale (picked straight from their garden) with a side of sliced pineapple, avacado and/or cucumber.
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Dinner rice or pojo, stewed goat meat, and a side of cooked veggies which may be green beans or kale
And that’s a wrap! I will try to upload pictures later when I have better WiFi, until then, see you all soon!
