Ahhh or as Chelsea would say, oh my Atlanta!! Love that Canadian girl lol
Currently we are in flight to San Jose, Costa Rica!! We have around an hour and a half left on our flight which means I slept for like 2 hours!! Yay!! I can never sleep on planes so I was pretty pumped when I woke up and Sara Beth was like dang you were out, haha.
I thought I’d blog about everything that happened this past week at training camp, and the ways God moved in my heart. Also! More updates on our trip!!
We are now going to Jaco, Costa Rica!!!
SO EXCITED
The Father continues to have His hand in everything, and it’s been such a blessing to see the different ways He works. We will be working with a ministry called Oceanedge. Here’s their ministry website, http://oceansedge-lifestyle.com/check them out! We’re not sure exactly what we’ll be doing, but we’ll be on the Pacific Ocean and I think surfing will be involved, eeeek. So don’t be surprised if I come back as a pro surfer;)
Now to training camp—
This week has been filled with so many great things from the Lord. Coming into this week I was pretty homesick. The transition was hard for me. We went from sleeping in our beds to the floor, with port-a-potties, no mirrors or sinks, and lots of lots of rice (lol). Which I kinda enjoyed, especially the Asian rice! haha I love the winking face.
Anywho, I was pretty emotional the first night and a little bit the second day, but wow, did God rock my world. I was introduced to the most amazing people. Every person on my team is so great, and I feel so blessed that I get to do life with them for the next 3 months. I remember after the first day/night. Lindsey and I went to go brush our teeth, and that first night was hard. I remember feeling like I was the only that was struggling with being homesick, and Lindsey looks at me and says, “how are you doing?” I was like oh shoot, I mean, we just met a little bit ago I don’t think I should have a breakdown just quite yet, so I just said “umm I’m doing fine, I miss home but not too bad.” And she goes, “awe that’s good, not gonna lie it’s really hard to be here, I want to have fun but I just don’t feel like myself right now, it’s hard.” In that moment I felt like I could be vulnerable, I saw Jesus in Lindsey and comfort in the fact that’s okay to not being doing the best right now. I felt like Lindsey had just said everything I needed to hear and Jesus definitely used her in that way to help me, so thank you Jesus, thank you Lou, love you 🙂
Throughout the week we heard so many inspiring messages that really stuck with me. One message that we heard was from Deon, a South African man who was overflowing with wisdom!! He spoke on the Holy Spirit and how to discern when He’s speaking. During worship that night we did an activity where we put out our hands and closed our eyes. And we just prayed for God to put something in our hands, and for Him to speak to us. After we did this activity, I felt discouraged cause when I closed my eyes and looked down at my hands I saw God and I just chillin in the middle of the field but there was nothing in my hands. Everyone else on my team had this super cool and meaningful stories to share, and I was like, “dang I’m so happy for them but what the heck I feel so disconnected from the Lord.” Later that night we did an activity where we sat in a circle with our team and our team leader chose someone. Once the person was chosen anonymously, each person on our team prayed for the Lord to give them a picture, word, image, vision, anything, that this chosen person should need to hear or would be helpful to them. In my head, I’m like “oh shoot I don’t know if I’m going to be much help during this activity I feel like God had been quiet.” So we all close our eyes and evidently I was the one that was chosen.
The first thing that someone said was “I see a sailboat traveling through rough waves, and despite those waves the sailboat is still moving through the water.” That hit me. I felt like that represented my heart and just how I had been feeling. Despite my homesickness, I still was making it through the rough waters and growing. Then a girl on my team goes “I see a butterfly” and another girl on my team goes, “me too but on a sunflower!” That was so surreal for me. If you know me, you know my love for butterflies and sunflowers, so the fact that they said both. It was just like woah very moving and just so cool. Then another girl on my team says I’m seeing electronics and then another girl goes yeah I’m seeing the words “Let go.” Oh my goodness at this point I was expecting the Lord to just come down from the ceiling, lol. That is something that has been very prevalent in my life. I definitely love my phone and just my social life on my phone, so the fact that the Lord was telling me to let go was incredible. A few other people on my team said other super touching words like, “you are safe, peace or you are welcome” which also meant so much, since I was still a little homesick, but woah just an incredible moment. I felt like after activity God was just telling me, “I am with you, even though you might not be hearing from me directly, I’m here.” The Lord used my team to show me that He was near and that He loved me. Just an incredible moment I really wanted to share. Sorry I’m not the best articulating my words and writing this all down quick!
So many fruitful things from the Lord this week and I cannot wait to dive into Costa Rica.
We officially will arrive in San Jose in less than an hour, and then just a quick 3 hour drive to Jaco! Thank you, thank you, thank you Lord.
(Disclaimer I will most likely be posting this blog at a much later time, once I get wifi haha, but woo hoo!!)
Hasta Luego,
Kp
aka Kenny G to team Saff <3
