111 Things from a World Racer
11 Countries
1. India: teaching English and construction
2. Nepal: preaching and bringing lift to churches
3. Vietnam: meeting people on the beach, in coffee shops, and in English classes to build relationships and share the gospel
4. Cambodia: teaching English
5. Botswana: college campus and street evangelism
6. South Africa: working at a mental health facility
7. Swaziland: teaching at care points for orphans and construction
8. Argentina: partnering with YWAM, community development
9. Chile: working at a house for teen girls too old to be in orphanages
10. Bolivia: ATL (Ask the Lord) no host, no ministry, lots of prayer and divine appointments
11. Peru: serving long term missionaries at an orphanage
11 Lessons
12. Abandonment: The Lord is enough.
13. What being a part of Christ’s family really means.
14. Stewardship: We are given good gifts but the way we handle those things can ruin them. We decide.
15. Peace: No matter where I am, no matter the chaos, in the presence of the Lord I am at my Mount of Olives.
16. God is my rock and my redeemer. He is always fighting for me.
17. Child-like faith is the purest form of trust.
18. I am not in bondage to the perceptions of man.
19. Partnership: I can do hard things when I partner with the Lord.
20. Beauty can and will save the world.
21. Dependence: My weakness is an advantage when it leads me to a place of dependence.
22. God is the same all around the world.
11 Unbelievable Things Seen
23. Hazy New Deli sun
24. A miraculous healing
25. Mount Everest
26. Angkor Wat
27. Victoria Falls
28. My parents IN AFRICA
29. Aconcagua
30. Natural Inca sulfur bridge
31. Bolivian salt flats
32. Death Road
33. Machu Picchu
11 Embarrassing Moments
34. I slipped in a mud puddle in India and got a leach.
35. I fell asleep in church (everyone could see my head drop).
36. I got really bad food poisoning in Nepal and peed my pants while puking… in some else’s leggings.
37. I was dancing in my room and screaming Ben Rector at the top of my lungs when my host walked in without me noticing and just stared. Still don’t know what he was thinking.
38. A girl in Vietnam asked if if had a boyfriend because my lips where “sexy,” and she wanted to kiss me.
39. I choked on a spring roll, was given the Heimlich, and emptied my entire bladder on a hotel floor.
40. I was riding my bike in Cambodia while simultaneously trying to drink a bubble tea and completely ate it. All my things, including my laptop went flying into the street. BUT I saved my bubble tea. Priorities.
41. I was sunbathing on the bank of the mighty Makong River when the town drunk jumped into the water and threw his pants at me.
42. My friend waxed my lip in Botswana, and my skin is really sensitive so it ripped off with the hair. When my host’s wife saw me, she asked if I had herpes.
43. In South Africa our bathroom was down the hall from our rooms and I used to walk back in my towel after I showered. One day our hosts’ 20-year-old son was in the hall when I came out…
44. I was using the bathroom on a bus on Argentina, just when I was pulling my pants up we hit a bump. I fell (pantless) into the door. It bust open, and a man waiting outside to use it caught me.
11 Special People
45. James and his family: sweet mornings in his home talking over breakfast
46. Greshom: our awesome and metal (he was in a band) Nepali host who became one of my sweetest friends
47. My barista friend in Vietnam that I taught English to
48. Ching Ching: the cuddliest sassiest 2-year-old in all of Cambodia
49. Zahara: our host’s 7-month-old little girl in Botswana, the happiest, smilyest baby I’ve ever met
50. Elma: my South African best friend who I read to all month and colored Bible verses with
51. The little girl in the plaid dress at our care point in Swazi
52. Dami: 2 am cake eating and testimonies over Google Translate in Argentina
53. Analich: snuggles and dancing around the kitchen in Chile
54. Rosie: the pastors wife at the church we visited in Oruro, knitting, fried chicken, sweet smiles
55. Tim and his family: wisdom and restoration through living life alongside people who live like Jesus
11 Favorite Foods
56. Puri
57. Chicken Masala
58. Spicy Falafel
59. Chicken Momo
60. Banh Xeo
61. Ban Me
62. Grilled bananas
63. Vermicelli
64. Chachalaca
65. Alpaca skewers
66. Churros
11 Places I’ve Slept
67. On the roof and under the stars of an under construction dorm in India
68. In a terrifying hostel with what looked like blood smeared on the window in Nepal
69. On a 24-hour bus that had bunk beds in Vietnam
70. Under a pink mosquito net with 7 other people in Cambodia
71. On the floor of the Phnom Penh airport
72. On the living room floor of a pastor’s house in Botswana
73. In my own room locked in a mental health facility
74. In a tent in Swaziland
75. On the window sill in the Buenos Aires airport
76. On a cramped 28-hour bus in Chile
77. In a hostel in Aguas Calientes (basically the Aspen of Peru) right outside of Machu Picchu
11 Favorite Things in My Pack
78. Essential oils
79. Thermarest travel blanket
80. My bible with pressed flowers in it from around the world
81. Travel paint set
82. Letters and pictures from home
83. Micron pens
84. Kindle
85. “Treasure Box” with sea glass from Valparaiso
86. Chacos
87. Patagonia down jacket
88. EmergenC packets
11 Bathrooms
89. A hole in the ground in a shed
90. A river behind a rock and my teammate also shielding me that people were swimming in and washing clothes in
91. A squatty potty on the side of the road with giant rats running around
92. The side of the road in Phnom Penh where our bus broke down
93. In the bushes in South Africa because the actual bathroom cost money
94. In a shed surrounded by monkeys in Zimbabwe
95. With my mom in a cement shed squatty in Swaziland
96. Outside, staring at Aconcagua (the highest mountain in South America)
97. On the side of the road in Bolivia next to a decaying dog
98. On so many buses, ALL the buses
99. On the Bolivian Salt Flats
11 Moments
100. Dancing and singing with the little girls of the village in India while Ali played the ukelele
101. Cracking up laughing with my squad in the pouring rain while riding in the back of a huge work truck
102. Preaching my first sermon in a little church in Nepal
103. Drinking iced tea and reading my bible in a tiny coffee shop in Vietnam and country music coming on over the speakers
104. My students in Cambodia surrounding me and giving me lots of hugs and flower crowns
105. Riding the moto through our village to English class
106. Playing jump rope barefoot with a few little girls in Botswana
107. Reading to my sweet friend in the mental health facility
108. Watching my parents pull up in the van in Swazi and running into their arms
109. Eating homemade dairy free cake at 2 am in Argentina and talking through charades and Google Translate with my new friends
110. Riding in the back of a pick up truck up the mountain to church at night, and watching shooting stars fall
111. IT WAS ALL WORTH IT
