This week at training camp has been such a stretching and growing process.
I’ve gone from being a comfort zone seeker and someone that appreciates a small circle of friends to someone that, so far, loves my squad of 39 in the middle of nowhere.
Meet my “ouR Joy Squad”
I just wanted to share a few things with you about training camp and I’d like to just give you my TTToTs(Top Ten Truths of Training), each of which will be explained in their own blog posts later:
10. Turns out that even though you like taking as many showers as possible each day, sometimes your lucky if you get one between 2 days. Lake bathing is totally legit.
9. You still have complete ability to lead blind and paralyzed people to safety even when you don’t have 2 arms regardless of how many hills or stumbling blocks are barracading the way.
8. I know how to collaboratively prepare food for roughly 40 people in roughly an hour–I’m talking a straight up feast:carribean chicken, steamed veggies, banana boats, smores, fresh fruit, monkey bread biscuits, oatmeal, hard boiled eggs!
7. I learned really quickly that if you want to eat, you will eat whatever is in front of you. Regardless of culture, or caloric intake, you will eat it. Otherwise, you’re gonna be hungry and it’s your own fault for not being thankful you even have food.
6. I’ve learned that it is possible to coexist with 12 other girls in one room, sharing 1 shower and 2 sinks and not have any drama. Didn’t know a realm like this existed, but I love it, new favorite realm that I want all other girls in the world to visit.
5. Turns out, washing your clothes in the sink with body wash is quite the process, but they still end up clean and able to be worn again.
4. I love love love my squad, it’s “ouR Joy Squad”–these people feed me all the time without even realizing what they’re doing.
3. I love that I have been able to know a different level of connection with it comes to communicating with Him incessantly.
2. I’ve learned what it means to worship with an abandoned heart before Christ and not care at all who’s watching.
1. For the first time in my life I know what it feels like to know my God as a Daddy, and that I am truly His daughter.
Stay tuned!
