Well as many of you know for the past two months I’ve been preparing to go to my World Race Training camp and if we had a conversation about it you probably caught the drift that I was having some mixed feelings going in. Everything that I’m doing is all new to me so I basically felt as if I was going in blind, maybe even a few steps behind everyone. As the days got near the anxiety was building and I had almost began to worry myself with these ideas of what it would be like, the doubts, the fears, basically everything the enemy will throw at you began to fill my head. But the funny thing about moments like those, the ones we worry so much about, is that they usually end up being the most memorable times you experience. So I want to tell you about some of the things I Thought were going to happen, and the experiences I actually Got while there.
1. Being new to the whole “Mission” Trip and the work we will be doing I began to tell myself I was not equip well enough to go on this trip.
But what became abundantly clear from the very beginning of camp is that God does not call those who are equip, he equips those who are called. and although I felt like my calling has just begun, I realized I was in the perfect place to start learning. I had found myself surrounded by some of the most inspirational, and motivational people I could think of. I knew that joining this community I would be around people that not only were looking for similar things as me but were looking to grow as well.
2. I thought 10 days would be rather long and uncomfortable living in the woods with strangers, and not long enough to actually get to know my fellow squad mates.
HAHAHA ohh boy was I wrong… Within a day everyone was really beginning to bond(Maybe due to the fact they stole some of our tents and we had to share day 2), we quickly found ourselves leaving our comfort zones and through the raw true forms we were in we soon created a community, a family. Within days we not only had realized we were forming a deep bond but we all had grown this sort of comical attitude to the little amount we would bucket shower, or the fact that we would eat with our hands out of a community dish of rice. We quickly learned when 1 smells 33 smell, but can anyone really tell? This community structure is what got us through this week of no sleep/freezing cold nights/little food/busy days/ and limited to almost none existent personal care products. Within 10 days there was no doubt this group of 33 random like hearted souls weren’t hand picked to make a change in this world.
So to conclude my time at Training camp what I learned was far more then I could put into a single blog, What I experienced though was Acceptance, Community, Love, emotional breakdowns, bonds forming, living raw, physical exhaustion, Discipleship, true Worship, And the full confidence that the World Race Is For ME!
