Disclaimer: this is just a snip it of what is going on.
I know before I have said I have no idea where to begin, but for real for real I have NO IDEA where to begin. I want to tell you everything in such detail, I want to introduce you to all of my teammates, and tell you everything the Lord is doing inside each of us but I know neither you nor I have time for such. To get started, let me set the stage… I am in Gainesville, GA with 54 teammates that I will be traveling the world with for the next year. These people are literally from all over the United States and even a few Canadians. I got here on Friday a little before 6pm and was directed to these two little half a house looking things and told to pick a bed and make myself at home. I walked in to a room with 3 story built in to the wall bunkbeds (words really can’t describe, a picture will follow once I get home), lovely port-o-potties, and much colder weather than I had prepared for! Since there is so much I want to tell about and as I type I keep thinking of more and more, I am going to just zone in to one story… hope you enjoy!
On Monday morning we were told to have our packs packed for 2 to 3 days including all of our cutlery and sleeping stuff at the tent by 9am. I knew this is what I was looking forward to… CAMPING! Camping is a new found love of mine and one of my former teammates and friend of mine back in Clemson so I was excited and ready to go. We actually didn’t leave until much later that afternoon, but when we did the bus took us to Unicoi State Park and we set up camp in one of the coolest set ups I’ve ever seen. There were little flats for us to sleep on
and a big fire pit at the bottom. So myself and three other amazing girls unpacked our stuff while it was still daylight and got ready for our “anywhere between two and three day trip” to begin. The most amazing part of our trip happened Tuesday afternoon as we each wrote what we needed to lay down at the foot of the cross onto logs. We then had to carry these logs on a pretty intense journey to the top of a mountain where there was a cross for us to finally let go of it and BE FREE!!! Many things happened on this journey, but most importantly the symbolism was incredible. The trail to the top was difficult physically and would have been much better with some free hands, but that was the point. So all alone in a vow of silence I took on the journey and prepared my heart to let go of my log. Half way up I was ready and excited about the freedom and new found joy the Lord was pouring in to my heart. A little too excited at one point and I got going pretty fast only to faceplant over a fallen tree; and although the fall didn’t change my current joyous state it did serve as an amazing reminder that this was a process and a choice I would have to make every single day to break free from the lies of the enemy and to seek hard after the words of Joshua to God’s people “Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve… But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”
and a big fire pit at the bottom. So myself and three other amazing girls unpacked our stuff while it was still daylight and got ready for our “anywhere between two and three day trip” to begin. The most amazing part of our trip happened Tuesday afternoon as we each wrote what we needed to lay down at the foot of the cross onto logs. We then had to carry these logs on a pretty intense journey to the top of a mountain where there was a cross for us to finally let go of it and BE FREE!!! Many things happened on this journey, but most importantly the symbolism was incredible. The trail to the top was difficult physically and would have been much better with some free hands, but that was the point. So all alone in a vow of silence I took on the journey and prepared my heart to let go of my log. Half way up I was ready and excited about the freedom and new found joy the Lord was pouring in to my heart. A little too excited at one point and I got going pretty fast only to faceplant over a fallen tree; and although the fall didn’t change my current joyous state it did serve as an amazing reminder that this was a process and a choice I would have to make every single day to break free from the lies of the enemy and to seek hard after the words of Joshua to God’s people “Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve… But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.” 
