Howdy!
9 months ago I left for the World Race with Q Squad! Since I left for the World Race in September I have grown in so many places I didn’t think I needed growth in. I have made so many memories with so many amazing people. I have gotten to experience many different cultures. My relationship with God has gotten stronger. I have lived in 4 different countries! And I am about to tell you about my World Race experience, the good, the bad, and the ugly!
When I was on a plane to the World Race I was like what am I doing? I thought “Is this real?” Am I really going to spread God’s word, love, and joy in another country? I had never been over seas, it was crazy! I Costa Rica I lived in a house with my whole squad of 50 people for 3 months! I lived in Africa with people I had never met but it was truly an awesome experience. Thai people know what they are doing. And Myanmar people do no know about any traffic laws!
Here is a list of what God showed me in and lessons that I had to learn throughout the whole race
– Be Patience in everything that I do
– What a good Christian community looks like
– Texas is the Best State
– How to find a build Christian community
– You have to choose into everyday
– Trusting in the Lord in everything that I do
– You can never eat to much rice… unless you eat it 3 meals a day for 2 months straight
– Worship is not just music it is a life style
– I have overcome comparison, I am created the way God made me and I am so thankful
– TP is something that you want to carry with you at all times in Asia!
– God’s love for us is everlasting and there is nothing that I could do to make him stop loving me
– They put ham on the hamburgers in Costa Rica, it must have gotten lost in the translation
– Texas is the Best state
– I am who God says I am! Not what other people say I am
– Playing Spanish rap music will attract large groups of people
– wearing the same outfit for whole week is okay… maybe
– Give everything to God because it was his in the first place
– We love talking about American food
– Washers and driers are underrated
– Safety is a suggestion
– Texas is the Best State
– There are no good prank ideas at 3 am
– I definitely take water fountains and free refills for granted
– True rest and peace is only found in the Lord’s presence
– What you put in is what you comes out
– A/c is a Gift from God
– My life is not my own
– They will know we are Christians by our love
– The ONLY tool you need is a machete
– Canadian and German Christmas markets are the BOMB
– I can sleep anywhere from a bed to a tile floor or even on top of a whole lot of clothes, backpacks, gravel, or even on top of 2x4s
– Sometimes you just have to… change the trajectory
– Life isn’t about right and wrong. It’s about life and death
– Your words carry a lot more weight than you think
– Prayer is essential
– If your’re willing to risk everything, then there is nothing God can’t do in and through you
– Western style toilets is a man’s greatest invention
– There are some smells you can never un-smell
– Growth starts when you get out of your comfort zone
– God’s glory isn’t an accessory. It’s a necessity and an inevitability
– I am a soldier of God
– Be Quick to listen and slow to speak
– Find a new perspective
– Americans eat wayyyyy to much
– There is no distinction in the way God looks at people. Who am I to judge someone?
– Love is a universal language
– Letting foreigners roast you is okay
– Chess is way better than I remember it
– Everyone needs a little surf in their life
– Jesus died for my sins and I am forever grateful!
