Red dirt. Cold showers. Obstacle courses. Worship. Team builders. Sunburn. Humidity. Dirty clothes. Debriefs. Tears. Camp cleanup. Grieving. Bonding. Learning love. Finding Jesus.
Just a few thoughts about training camp. Wanted to write and let you all know I’m still alive. Sorry for the lack of phone and email communication, both are very limited, but I will do my best to respond before I leave the country. The days since I arrived last Thursday have felt like an eternity. I haven’t even been gone a week, but already I am broken, prayerful, and though still uncertain of what the Lord has in store for this adventure, I am confident that He will do mighty things in and through me!
We fly out early Saturday morning for Bangkok, will continue a few days of cultural and ministry training there, and will head out to wherever Thailand to begin our first month! I’ll try to post a few new pictures before we leave this weekend, and am also working on a video to show the ins and outs of training camp, so hopefully I’ll have that up in the coming weeks (I love to edit…and it takes me forever to get it exactly how I want it to look). I’ll also try to post a few of my thoughts and challenges from this week, I’m definitely learning a lot!
Miss you all!
(in case you missed an earlier blog, i’m trying to name all my blogs after showtunes, and include relevant, and often irrelevant, lyrics at the end. it makes me happy.)
This is wanting something, this is reaching for it,
This is wishing that a moment would arrive.
This is taking chances, this is almost touching, what the beauty is.
I don’t understand a word they’re saying,
I’m as different here as different can be.
But the beauty is I still meet people like me.
