This is for you..

37 days. That’s all the days left I have on this incredible journey of the World Race.

I’ve been a little concerned about coming home, but maybe for a reason, you wouldn’t expect. I’m not sure how to adequately describe the past ten months in a way you’d understand without possibly getting frustrated with myself. I know it’s effortless to ask the generic questions, “How was it? What was your favorite part? Did you have fun?” Please, for my sanity try to stray away from these questions.

I want you to understand my heart behind this; I can not wait to see you all. I can not wait to share stories of the last year. But I know myself enough to know I’ll need specific questions. I need you guys as my support to rally around me and help me integrate back into the states. That means asking intentional questions and giving your time to listen to what I have to say. If you don’t want to know anything about this last year, that’s okay! I’d rather you be honest. Or if all you care about is that one time I saw elephants in Thailand, ask me about that!

So, here is a list of 125+ questions you can ask me instead of a generic question when I go home. This list is me helping you, to help me 🙂 

1. How was it team leading the first part of the race?
2. Who was on your team Vessels of Joy?
3. How did you adjust to the race month 1?
4. Who were your hosts month 1 and what were they like?
5. Where was your favorite place to have quiet time month 1?
6. What is quiet time and what did you learn about it?
7. Did you ever eat anything weird in the Philippines?
8. What was it like delivering a baby for the first time?
9. What was it like visiting Trash Mountain in the Philippines?
10. What are feedings?
11. What was local transportation like in the Philippines?
12. What was one of the things you did for free time Month 1?
13. Where did you go to church Month 1?
14. Why did you cry the day you left the Philippines?
15. Did you get a fish pedicure in Thailand?
16. What was it like doing ministry in the red-light district of Thailand?
17. What was is like seeing Elephants in Thailand?
18. Did you enjoy your ministry in Thailand?
19. What was it like experiencing the Lantern Festival in Thailand?
20. How did you celebrate Thanksgiving in Thailand?
21. Who was Angela?
22. How was visiting and talking to monks in Thailand?
23. How was it taking a sleeper train from Thailand to Malaysia?
24. What was is like walking across the Thailand/Malaysia border?
25. What was hard about Malaysia
26. What was your favorite day of ministry in Malaysia?
27. Who is Fisa?
28. What was your favorite thing to eat in Malaysia?
29. Who is Chin and how did you meet her?
30. What was it like preforming a Christmas play?
31. How did you celebrate Christmas in Malaysia?
32. Was it scary being in a fire show?
33. Who were the “chicken boys”?
34. What was it like staying out until 4 am to spend time with the “chicken family”?
35. What did New Year’s look like for you?
36. What was the country of Lesotho like?
37. What did you like about Lesotho?
38. What were your sleeping arrangements like in Lesotho?
39. How was it living at an orphanage in Lesotho?
40. What was it like going to the doctors in Nelspruit?
41. What was your ministry in Swaziland?
42. How did you feel about teaching preschoolers in Swaziland?
43. How was it having all squad month and new team changes at the same time?
44. Who was on your second team Steve?
45. Is there meaning behind your team name Steve?
46. What does it look like to cook for 39 people on world race budget?
47. How was it walking 1 hour to ministry in Swaziland?
48. Who is Zakithi and what is she like?
49. What did you do for the squad talent show in Swaziland?
50. What was it like working with Flamingo’s in South Africa?
51. What was it like going to Durban for a couple days?
52. What was one of your favorite things to do ministry wise in South Africa?
53. Who were your hosts in South Africa? Why did you love them?
54. Was going to the grocery store without shoes normal in South Africa?
55. What was the Awakening in South Africa like?
56. What is “Awakening?”
57. How did you feel about being in charge of the hospitality team at Awakening? And what did it consist of?
58. What is Sabbath?
59. What was it like traveling from South Africa to Nicaragua?
60. How did it feel to have a layover in NEW YORK CITY?
61. What was it like seeing your Family in NYC?
62. What was it like being back in Nicaragua for the third time?
63. What was ministry like in Nicaragua?
64. What is something you did for the first time while in Nicaragua?
65. How did you respond to not having water all the time in Nicaragua?
66. How was the city of Palacaguina?
67. Who is Yaner?
68. How did you like volcano boarding?
69. How were team switches different the third time around?
70. Who was on your third team?
71. What was different about all three of your teams and what was similar?
72. What was it like doing morning stretch and devo’s every morning in Costa Rica?
73. How was it meeting with a mentor once a week?
74. What was stewardship ministry?
75. Did you go on any adventures in Costa Rica?
76. What was the Lord teaching you in Costa Rica?
77. What was the weather like in Costa Rica?
78. What was your form of transportation in Costa Rica?
79. What was your ministry in Panama?
80. How was it living in the mountains for a week in panama without electricity or running water?
81. What was your ministry in Colombia?
82. How did you celebrate the Fourth of July in Colombia?
83. Was Paragliding as scary as it looked?
84. How did going on the World Race change your view of God?
85. How did going on the World Race change your view of yourself?
86. Did you lose anything on the World Race?
87. Did saying goodbye to so many people make you want to open your heart to others or close your heart?
88. How did you take care of yourself on the World Race?
89. Did you ever run into anyone you knew before the World Race oversees?
90. What is a debrief?
91. What did you enjoy about debrief in Bangkok, Thailand?
92. What did you enjoy about debrief in Nelspruit, South Africa?
93. What did you enjoy about debrief in San Jose, Costa Rica?
94. What did you enjoy about debrief in Medellin, Colombia?
95. How did your first round of team changes go?
96. What was it like being on a coed team for two weeks?
97. Did anyone from your squad ever go home early unexpectedly?
98. What was it like traveling so much?
99. What was it like checking off an African Safari on your bucket list?
100. How did you do your laundry on the World Race?
101. What did you do as Beauty for Ashes Coordinator?
102. What did you miss most about your house back home?
103. Did you ever have a hot shower on the World Race?
104. Did you read your bible every day?
105. What is Team Time, and why did you have it almost every day?
106. What is feedback?
107. Did you enjoy the travel days?
108. How much did you miss your family?
109. What was it like living out of 2 backpacks, having to pack up at least once per month and carry everything on your back?
110. What is a bucket shower?
111. How many months of the race did you have lice? And what did you do to get rid of it?
112. Did you ever get homesick?
113. What were bathrooms like on the World Race?
114. How did you adjust to changing countries, currencies, languages, and cultures so often?
115. Did your Spanish improve over the five months you were in Central/South America?
116. Did you ever get emotional praying for people on the World Race?
117. Did you always go on adventures, on your adventure days?
118. Did you ever get to see movies in the theater on the World Race?
119. Did you ever get car sick on the World Race?
120. What was it like having dinner month 10 with your first team?
121. Did you always share a room with at least one person on the World Race?
122. Did you learn any new games on the World Race?
123. Where would you travel back too?
124. Do you still keep in contact with people you met along the way?
125. What was it like sleeping in 40+ beds?
126. Did you ever send a package home?
127. What did community living look like?
128. Could you ever go somewhere by yourself?
129. If you knew what you know now would you still do the World Race?

If you made it this far, you are a good friend, and I appreciate you! If you have questions that are not listed here, ASK AWAY! This is just a list of suggestions 🙂

I know people are still going to ask how was it, and I’m going to have grace so please have grace with me if I don’t go into full detail of that one question. I have so many experiences I want to share with you all.

LOVE YOU ALL, SEE YOU IN 37 DAYS!

p.s. you can always email me at [email protected] if you have questions now!

& let me know in the comments below what you think of these questions!