Well, the time has come. We go home in 10 days, and it’s going to be an adjustment. For me, my family, my friends, and my whole squad. I’ve changed a lot during these nine months (blog coming on that soon!!), and I’m sure everyone back at home has too. And as excited I am to share what life has been like for me and to hear what life has been like for you guys, it’ll be hard. There’s really no way to explain everything that has happened over these last nine months; no place to even begin to share everything the Lord has done in my life. So, to make things easier, here’s some questions I’d love for you to ask to help me best explain this experience 🙂
September-November (Georgia & Louisiana):
What was it like first meeting your team?
What was it like first meeting your squad?
Who was in your cohort?
What were covid restrictions like?
How was living in your tent?
What game did you play in your tent?
Did you ever have tent sleepovers?
How was the first night sleeping inside?
Where did you sleep when it got too cold?
Where did you shower?
What are some funny porta potty stories?
What was the fitness hike? How was it?
How did you do your laundry?
What were sessions like?
How much money did you spend on the vending machine?
What was it like first leaving campus?
What did you do in Louisiana?
Who is Christy?
What dream did you discover during this time?
What did you do for Halloween?
Who are the Coco’s?
What was something God redeemed for you during these three months?
Who is your leadership?
Why did you get baptized? What was that like?
How did you react when you learned you were going to Costa Rica?
Who left during the last month?
What’s your favorite memory from Georgia?
What’s your favorite memory from Louisiana?
December (home):
What were your plans for Thanksgiving break?
How did you end up home?
How was covid for you?
What was quarantine like?
What was the hardest part about being home?
What was the hardest part about leaving again?
What did you and your mom do a lot of?
What game did you try to teach your parents?
What did your relationship with God look like during this time?
What’s your favorite memory from being home?
January-March (Costa Rica):
How did you celebrate Gretch’s birthday?
What was travel day like?
What is Project Abraham?
Why did you think you were getting robbed?
What did your daily schedule look like?
Who are Caleb and Corrie?
Who is Xinia?
Who is Alfredo?
Who are Kaci and Jez?
What games did your squad play the most?
What did leadership have to set limits on?
What is Til He Returns?
Who is Quique?
Who is Pablo?
Who are the Mixons?
Who else did you meet at ministry?
What were dance classes like?
What did your team do for your birthday?
What did you learn about spiritual warfare?
What did you do for Syd’s half birthday?
What book changed your life?
How many books did you read?
What did you do for Valentine’s Day?
How was your first adventure day?
How did you react when you learned you were going to the DR?
Who is Edgar?
How many new tattoos did you get? What do they mean?
What is debrief?
Where did you go for debrief?
What did you do during debrief?
What did the Lord walk you through during these three months?
What’s your favorite memory from Costa Rica?
April-May (Dominican Republic):
What was travel day like?
What is Mission of Hope?
What is SMT?
Who was there the first week?
What did you do for Easter?
Who were the translators you were closest to?
Who did you live on base with?
Who knew someone back home?
What did your daily schedule look like?
Who is Blackie?
Who is Edwin?
Why did you go to Guatemala?
What are some of your favorite stories of ministry?
How many tarantulas did you see?
How many bug bites did you get?
What was manual labor like?
Who are Junior and Miguel?
What was the youngest baby you held?
What were language barriers like?
What was church like?
How many people were injured/sick?
Who was the medical translator?
What did you do for Ang’s birthday?
What did you do for Kailey’s birthday?
How often did you go to the beach?
What other adventures did you go on?
How was the worship/prayer burn?
How were your last two days of ministry?
Where did you go for debrief?
What did you do during debrief?
What did the Lord walk you through during these two months?
What’s your favorite memory from the Dominican Republic?
The whole race:
How many times did you get covid tested?
What are the main things the Lord taught you?
How did you grow in your relationship with the Lord?
How did you grow in your relationship with others?
How did you grow in your relationship with creation?
How did your team grow?
What did the squad struggle the most with?
Which season had the most growth?
What was your theme of the race?
Now that I’m home:
What do you miss most about the race?
What did you miss the most from home?
What’s the hardest thing to readjust to?
What’s next?
Do you have plans to see your squad again?
How do you guys keep in touch?
What is the Lord teaching you in this season?
How are you putting what you learned into practice?
There’s that! Some of these questions I don’t even know the answer to yet. And obviously feel free to ask any questions you want – I probably left off a lot of good ones! These are just some examples. Love you all a lot, and see you in 10 days! I’d love to meet up with ya once I’m home, so please reach out if you want to <3
With love,
Brook
