- Ok, I had what I thought was an incredible blog written in my journal but to be completely honest.. I feel in my heart that it’s not the one God wants me to share. So here I am starting over. So for anyone wondering what my thoughts are on South Africa; It’s completely gorgeous and the town I’m staying in is full of the nicest beach bums I’ve ever met. I feel so at home here. It’s crazy because I had no idea what it’d be like living thousands of miles away from my family in a different country. Rest be assured my host family does an amazing job at making all 42 of us feel like their own children, which we have really have appreciated. If it weren’t for them we wouldn’t enjoy Jeffrey’s Bay as much as we do. These people have taught us that you can plant your feet anywhere and grow everywhere. What a sweet reminder of Gods people they are. Besides providing a roof over our heads and food for each and every one of us, she makes sure that she loves on us when we miss our real moms back home! Just a little side note, I would like to give some thanks to the woman who raised me. Mom, thank you for all the things you do for me, you are my best friend and forever and always be the closest thing in Earth to show me unconditional love. I truly couldn’t imagine doing this journey with out you behind me because you are the reason I know God. Can I get an Amen? Although I love my mom a whole lot, this one is a bout the man up stairs. So far I have traveled 72 hours just to get to Jeffrey’s Bay, SA, but I can assure you those 4 1/2 days were so worth it. God has blessed part of my squad with an amazing home for the duration of these 3 months and provides us food for every meal. I am so grateful. Scratch that, I haven’t even begun to know the root of what being grateful means. God has so many more treasure for me and it’s only month 2! It is so crazy saying “yeah I live in Africa right now.” Like what?! When did all of this even happen?! I am soaking every single ounce I can get out of it I’ll tell you that. Im sure you’re wonder what I’ve been up to in the past month, so let me let you in on some cool stuff. In the 2nd week of being here we went to a camp in town called UCSA where I was a team leader in a camp with 160 kids from middle school to high school ages. With one of the girls on on my team, we got to be camp leaders to 9 beautiful souls placed on Earth by God himself. Alright I’m just going to spit it out, I had 2 favorites. It’s okay to gasp, I know how dare I? Anyway, don’t get me wrong I loved all of my kids but God lead me to connect with these 2 boys more than the other kids. Their names were Nalidi and Bigga, the way that these boys thirsted for the Lord’s word and wanted to restore their relationship with him was so amazing. There were so many things that they didn’t know but you could just tell how badly they wanted it. They truly showed me what it looked like to have hearts on fire for the Lord. Spending 5 days with them made every rough patch at camp worth it. I can’t say I had a proud parent moment but a proud sister moment for sure. Towards the last few days of camp my boys have their lives to Christ and that night we rejoiced and shared testimonies. The last day of camp our team went into town for a local challenge to help others know Jesus. As a reward for how hard they worked, we took them to the beach because a lot of the kids don’t get the opportunity to see the beach at all during the year because they don’t live close enough. In our final goodbyes I will never forget about the way these kids were so accepting to my partner and I. As well as my boys being gentlemen and twirling me around on the sidewalk to the street music and picking up beautiful shells on the beach talking about home. I truly loved watching these boys blossom into men of God and getting to know their fun personalities. I really saw God working in me and through me.
- I just want to say these verses from this worship song I’m listening to because these are my intentions :
- Heavenly Father, I’m caught up in your presence and I just want to sit here at your feet I’m caught up in this holy moment and I never want to leave
- I’m not here for blessings, Jesus you don’t owe me anything more than anything that you can do I just want you.
I want to thank you for taking the time to read my blog today, I really enjoy feedback so please feel free to comment and I’ll email you if you have question about anything! Also I would just like to say that I am not fully funded yet and I have until January to do so. I honestly have a really hard time asking for help but I am working on that with God. So I’m going to push past the uncomfortable part of this because if this is what I have to do to stay, I will. Although I do have faith that God will provide, I will need some help so if you would like to donate to me to help me reach my final fundraising goal please feel free to contact me and ask any questions I will give out my Venmo,Pay pal, and my blog which you’re on at the moment! If you just want to pray that the funds come through, I would love that as well!
Again thank you for being invested in my journey and I’m sorry it took so long to get a blog out there! Now that things are slowing down I’ll have more down time to do many blogs.
Sincerely,Blaize:)
