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  1. The one thing I had the hardest time with was the exact thing people praised me for. L O V E
  2. You can transform the routine and mundane tasks into a form of worship. 
  3. Sometimes all people need is someone who will listen to them, and not give advice. 
  4. There is beauty in everything, and everyone; you just have to put in the time and effort into seeing it.
  5. Holding babies is ministry. Take the time to pray over them and their future. You don’t know the next time they’ll get love.
  6. Patience is not something that can be forced on someone. People don’t learn the way you do, so give grace. 
  7. Always carry wipes or toilet paper and a plastic bag when going to a bathroom outside of your host home or ministry site.
  8. You can’t expect someone to change overnight over something they have been learning for 20+ years. It takes time.
  9. Why not worship like nobody’s watching? It is you and God after all.
  10. Live the life you want lo tell your kids about, so don’t let money be the reason you don’t do something. 
  11. If you have the opportunity to get an empanada on a Tica bus in Central America, go for it! I highly recommend it. 
  12. I absolutely love hospitality and serving behind the scenes in a church.
  13. You’ll never regret waking up at 5am to watch the sunrise on the beach, or behind a mountaintop from your roof.
  14. You create family wherever you go.
  15. I don’t enjoy strategic, orderly, painted murals.
  16. Remember to look up from time to time. You never know what you might see.
  17. The sweat you endured through those 600 steps, 1hr uphill climb, etc, is worth the view that you will never forget.
  18. Be completely present in the now. You don’t know who will or won’t be in your tomorrow.
  19. You never know when you won’t have access to coffee, so drink as much Bohio (Jaco, Costa Rica) and Bella Goose (Chiang Mai, Thailand) coffee as you can!
  20. The number of attendance won’t disqualify what the Holy Spirit can or cannot do. 
  21. Pancakes will always cheer up a teammate.
  22. Work smarter not harder.
  23. Joy is a choice that never gets mastered. You have to actively choose it everyday.
  24. Most of the time you’re never needed, but wanted.
  25. When doing ministry with children, love them with 120% of who Jesus is inside of you, because you don’t know what their living situation is at home when you leave. 
  26. The words you choose to say, negative or positive, will create a natural routine.
  27. You don’t need instruments, microphones, speakers, or flashy lights to worship God. 
  28. Do everything WITH God, not for Him. 
  29. You can make anything you do fun (manual labor) when you do it with joy.
  30. Give all that you are to the people around you, even when you know that you might not see them again. 
  31. It is true that when you delight yourself in the Lord, He will give you the desires of your heart (Psalm 37:4) and only He can satisfy. 
  32. Trusting in the Lord is not always easy, but choosing to trust him with everything has become easier.
  33. BUT IF NOT, YOU ARE GOOD. (Daniel 3:18)
  34. The Lord gives you strength to do what He wants you to do. 
  35. God cares about what you care about. Even the little things like finding a coffee shop that serves v60 coffee! (43 Factory Coffee Roasters, Da Nang, Vietnam)
  36. I carry the gift of love, discernment, prophesy, peace and grace. 
  37. I was not created to carry other people’s loads. (Galatians 6:2, 5)
  38. I am a privileged human. 
  39. I’m a boss at killing cockroaches. 
  40. I actually enjoy learning now, not being in school!
  41. The Lord will sustain you in the season you are in, if it’s where He wants you to be. 
  42. Distance from the Lord will cause problems inwardly. Ex: (not being present, thinking about home) 

 

I’ll end it here, because there are so much more, but I will leave you with these for now. 

 

Traveling to 12 different counties in 11 months as a 21 year old is something that most people will never get to do, and I’ve definitely taken that for granted this year. I’m currently in Botswana, and I wake up every morning saying, “I’m in freakin Africa right now. What is life?!” This is a trip I will never forget, and hope to talk about for the rest of my life.