So its been two weeks since the end of training camp and I wanted to make sure I told y’all what an experience the trip was. When I landed in Atlanta I was honestly freaking out worried to death about meeting the people I was going to spend the next year of my life with. I got to the airport at least 3 1/2 hours before anyone else off of my squad did and that just allowed the anxiety and my nerves to build up more and more. But after I met my squad and my team I can honestly tell y’all I am beyond excited to do life with these new found brothers and sisters not just for the next year, but for the rest of our days. Over the long, confusing, tough, rainy, and hungry 10 days I can say that in 1,000% confidence this is what God wants me to do. And also that this trip is for me and that God will do GREAT things through my team and I on the field as we go out into the world speaking to people who have never heard the gospel. The training taught me a lot and it reassured a lot for me also. We had different sessions every day that ranged through the chronological order of the Old Testament or the power of the Holy Spirit to the different religions around the world and how to respect their cultures while telling them about Jesus. Every day was also themed to a different place around the world that our dress code and meals were based off of which was pretty crazy. The meals went from Thai Tom Yum soup which left me starving that day because I couldn’t use chopsticks right or eating Dal with our hands on India day wearing pants in 95 degree Georgia humidity to eating a cricket with a century egg on the side for adventure day (No I didn’t not eat the black clear egg yes I am a chicken). But God also revealed himself in many ways. I spoke in my last blog about everyone around me hearing God speak to them but I’ve never heard God audibly speak to me its just certain feelings I get that I know come from him and I was getting very frustrated about it trying to think why God wouldn’t talk to me, but during prayer one night God placed In my head the image of a lake in the mountains calm and still and He told me to calm down He’s got this. But later in the week my friend was praying for me and she wrote a few words on a note God wanted her to tell me and the one that stuck out the most was the word “Heard” and a giant weight got lifted off my chest as I was trying to figure out if that was God I heard a few nights before or if it was just me telling myself it was. But one quote that I will always remember from Training is one from Narnia which sounds a little odd but C.S. Lewis put a lot of ties to God in his story and one of the quotes was about Aslan which is a symbol for Jesus. But one of the girls ask about Aslan being safe and the response the she got was “Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.” That quote mede me think about how so many times I see God as a way to ask for things then really the Most POWERFUL thing ever in existence that he can do whatever he wants to but he will not go against his nature and he is so good to us. And it just helps me crave a relationship with the Father and thirst to know him better clinging on to even word. Below I want to leave. Few links to Pictures and videos to show y’all what Training looked like and how it really was there! Thank y’all so much for reading! God Bless.
