This past week has been a whirlwind of emotions. Super super excited to be going to Bulawayo tomorrow but also super super sad to be leaving Livingstone. Friday morning we left Namatama (our home for the past month) and WOW! It was way harder than I expected it to be. 3 weeks ago, when we arrived here, I remember looking around thinking yiiiiiikes how am I going to get used to living here?Within a week, I couldn’t picture myself being anywhere else. I learned to love our cement floor and our plastic sitting chairs. The bugs and lizards we lived with became my friends and we gave each one a name. No air conditioning and cold showers quickly became a norm for me. Those things were not things I would have ever expected to get used to. Our ministry hosts became our family and we spent almost all of our nights hanging out with them or cooking traditional Zambian dinners. God surprised me in such beautiful ways this month and it’s hard to leave the new friendships and community we’ve formed. But, I have to trust that God will continue to surprise me in each country we visit. Goodbyes are hard so I’ve decided to just say see you laters instead. I trust that I will eventually have the opportunity to return to this beautiful country.
Since Friday, we’ve been staying in town at a hostel for debrief. Our team mentor, Julia, flew out last week to join us for our last week of ministry and to lead debrief this past weekend. Debrief was 4 days of relaxing, but also processing and discussing our past month. We were BLESSED with a swimming pool and WiFi all weekend long! Time that wasn’t spent in sessions was spent swimming in the pool or laying out in the sunshine. It was super super nice, but I’ve found myself becoming more reliant on my phone as the weekend went on. Having WiFi became a norm in such a short time and I’m disappointed that I was able to adjust back so quickly. This past month without connection only 2 or 3 times a week was such a nice break from social media.
We were supposed to leave this morning for Bulawayo, but God answered our prayers about not wanting to leave Livingstone haha. We could not find a single bus with the route that we needed and it delayed us by one day. We had another day of relaxing and sleeping in (thank u Jesus)!!!! Tomorrow we’ll wake up at 5, take a taxi to the border of Zambia and literally walk with our packs across the border to Zimbabwe and then start our 7 hour bus ride to Bulawayo (hopefully). We don’t actually have bus tickets yet and we won’t get them until the morning! I’m lit to see what God has planned for us this next month.
Please pray as we leave Zam and head to Zim and begin to transition into our new ministry home and ministries. We’ll be working with Bulawayo Baptist Church there. Also please continue to pray 4 my queso cravings hahahah
I love you all, thank you for all of your kind words and support!!!! 🙂 <3 <3 <3
