A week ago I made my journey back home from a 10 day training camp in Gainesville, Georgia. It was quite possibly the most challenging, yet overwhelmingly astounding ten days I have had up to this point in my life. I was pushed physically, mentally, and emotionally. I cried more in ten days then most of my friends and family have seen in my twenty years of life and laughed harder than I even knew I could. I slept in a tent that was the equivalent to a sauna, hiked with a 45 pound pack on my back, woke up with tick on my neck, was made breakfast, lunch, and dinner by mosquitoes, took freezing cold bucket showers, mastered the art of pretending to feel clean using only baby wipes, and learned to walk with blisters all over my feet and still smile through it all. But what I walked away with was my entire reality completely wrecked. I saw God show up in ways I didn’t even know we’re conceivable. I saw Him cover people in love and peace. I saw Him break people to their core and show them their true strength. I saw Him heal hearts and calm minds. I saw Him comfort the sad. I saw Him lead the lost. I saw Him shine a new light in so many lives. And something I didn’t think would happen, He took a girl from Katy, Texas and showed her the power in being vulnerable and the love total strangers could have for her. In ten shorts days I found a family. I found people broken and confused just like me. I found people ready to change the world. In ten days I went from not knowing who I was or what my life had in store for me, to feeling complete tranquility about the unknown. I knew this journey wouldn’t be easy, and I will face many struggles in my next nine months, but I have never felt more prepared physically, mentally, and emotionally, to travel the world and show so many people the unfailing love God has for each and everyone of us. And how awesome I get to do it with a whole squad of people who love the Lord so dang much!!!! If I could describe my ten days in one word it would be Freedom. In my next nine months I hope many more people will find this word as meaningful as I did and experience a new life in God. He changed who I was in just ten days. I can’t imagine what He will do in 275 not only in my life but all the lives around me. WORLD RACE I’M READY FOR YOU!!!!!!!!
