This month, I am with 11 other beautiful women coming from 2 other teams other than my own. We are all one team! (We split boys and girls up this month.) Carly has served as the team leader and I have served as the finance person. It has been amazing! Malaysia has been such a blessing to us. I hope it feels the same way about us. Before I left for the race, people would ask me what kind of work I would be doing. My usual response would be probably anything you could possibly think of. This month, we’ve done literally a little bit of everything. We have been in 2 different locations; Port Klang and Butterworth. The first week in Port Klang, we visited a senior citizens home, attended a pastor’s meeting to join them in prayer, went to a special needs school, worked an International Food Festival, taught Sunday school and attended a fundraiser dinner. The past couple weeks, we have been in Butterworth. We have been working with a youthgroup. We meet them at a coffeeshop that they work at and mentor them. We have been cutting out hearts for a Christmas Fundraiser and painting a mural in their stairwell.
Malaysia has been our shortest month so far but we have definitely accomplished just as much if not more in the short time we have been here. I know the thing I will remember the most about this place, will not be that i tried jellyfish, or that we actually had air conditioning in our rooms…it will be the hospitality that we were shown! Every person we came to serve, was just as eager to serve us! It was incredibly humbling. Janet, the wonderful woman we stayed with in Butterworth, told us at the beginning that being hospitable was how she showed love like Jesus did. I hope that we are leaving that imprint as we make our way around the world…
Malaysia has been our shortest month so far but we have definitely accomplished just as much if not more in the short time we have been here. I know the thing I will remember the most about this place, will not be that i tried jellyfish, or that we actually had air conditioning in our rooms…it will be the hospitality that we were shown! Every person we came to serve, was just as eager to serve us! It was incredibly humbling. Janet, the wonderful woman we stayed with in Butterworth, told us at the beginning that being hospitable was how she showed love like Jesus did. I hope that we are leaving that imprint as we make our way around the world…
Working on crafts at the special needs school.
My friends I worked with at the International Food Fair. We worked at the game stations. I was originally doing football…which of course turned out to be soccer so I moved to Balloon Dart.
Me and my beautiful teammates at the Fundraiser Dinner. This is where I tried the jellyfish 🙂
We got to celebrate Thanksgiving at Kenny Roger’s Roasters! Chicken is pretty close to turkey…
Teaching our friend Chloe how to crack an egg so she can make brownies…an important life lesson.
This is what we did with the 10,000 hearts we cut out. You pay a ringgett ($.33) and you get to sign a heart. The money goes to help the kids we worked with.
Sweet Janet who took good care of us.
