I havent been completely honest with you. The past 8 months have been extremely hard. I havent always gotten along with my team.
After long and hard thinking and praying my leadership team and I have made the decision for me to leave the team I am currently on. In a couple of days i will be on a flight to Alabama. I will stay there the next 2 months doing missionary work there. I will be staying with the hosts that hosted us back in January. This was not an easy decision to come to. After praying about it for 2 weeks i feel at peace about it. Where I’ll be staying is a landing zone, meaning they have former world racers staying there. There is a possibility that I can rejoin a world race America team for month 11 but we will come to that decision later on.
This was not an easy decision to come to. I kept thinking why am I making the decision to be leaving this dream of traveling for 11 months. This year has been nothing like I expected it to be mainly because of the Corona virus. After praying for so long though I know this is the best decision for me and something that God wants me to do.
Probably the biggest thing I’ve learned this year is to trust that God has a plan and to follow that plan is the best way for me to go. I finally realized why I was made treasurer at the beginning of the year. It wasn’t to prove to myself that I could do it, part of me already knew that. It was so that I could be confident in it so when it came to this time where I would have to do it alone I wouldnt psych myself out. As it says in Jeremiah 29:11-
“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.”
I trust God planned this all along. That despite the fact that I cant stay on this team any longer that I needed to stay the 11 months. That it wasn’t time for me to go home yet.
As far as all of the money I fundraised goes I will still be using that while I’m in Alabama.
