As I sit here thinking through training camp my mind is overwhelmed. It seems as though training camp lasted months and it was only a week. How your relationship with God can become closer, 50 strangers become your best friends, you learn comforts don't matter and your future is in the hands of the creator in just one week is baffling.
As you know a week before training camp I switched squads, a decision I had always had peace about but once I arrived at training camp and seeing all the faces that looked so familiar from Facebook was not my squad anymore. I looked over at my new squad and faces I had never seen was all there was. I thought what have I done, I don't know these people and they don't know me. I walked over and our squad leader met me to help me to put my tent up. She was so incredibly sweet and so welcoming I thought okay this might not be so bad. After my tent was up I stood around not knowing what to do. I tried to introduce myself but it was surface conversation and awkward silence. I thought "this is going to be a long week".
We all stood there not knowing what was next but hoping something happened soon but we were running out of small things to talk about. As the night began God begin to move, it was absolutely insane how quickly things changed. I didn't have a pack, shower supplies, a tent or any of my "comforts" but my team was so quick to take care of me. Through the next few days we went through scenarios of things that might happen on the race and everything you thought was a "sure thing" as in I will always have my daypack was never a sure thing. One night it all changed!
We were told we were going to hike to a camp sight and camp there through the night, I thought how hard can this be? After being lost for about an hour and internally being so frustrated, it was exactly what we needed. As a team we bonded so much. We had lots of time to talk, pray together, lift each other up and live through our first big frustration. We got to camp, still had to cook food and get things prepared for bed but that was when I really felt like these people were my family. I didn't want to be going through this situation with anyone else. Each of us had something to offer this chaotic day and it was perfect. We ended up getting little sleep that night because we stayed up sharing testimonies. It was beautiful. This was my team! This was my family! God rocked our world this past week and our hearts. He prepared us to be rocked so we could rock the worlds we are going to.
I couldn't be more excited to spend 11 months leading a team of 6 girls into changing lives. I have never met so many people who are so willing to let God do whatever he wants and just be his vessels. Q squad is a squad for the books! I seriously love each and every one of them and I love my God for making each of them the way they are! Serving this next year along side my God and my squad is going to be hard that's for sure but so well worth the sacrifice. Launch is in a month and that makes my heart giddy. Q squad has been rocked so get ready world we are coming to let you experience being rocked too!
