Well I was planning on writing a serious blog about feelings and anxiety about leaving for a year and everything that is racing through my mind, and how God has given me a supernatural peace and amazing support around me. These things are good and all, but I will lighten the mood up a little bit and share a little about our traveling experience thus far.
So, you know you are on the world race when…
-When you get to the ATL airport and your pack is deemed too big, so you repack it at the airport and break a strap in the process
-5 hour flight to LAX and end up seeing all of LA in a day, with exhaustion setting in already, and the trip has not even begun yet
-Next, get to LAX early in the morning and wait around a few hours, finally board the plane, and off to Taipei, Taiwan, on a 14 hour flight
-Watch 4 movies, eat two meals, and sleep for a couple hours all in a single flight
-Take a 3 hour flight to Bangkok, land, and meet our contacts, there is some miscommunication involved, and we wait around the Bangkok airport for a couple hours
-Then we take a hour drive to the bus stop. Wait another hour and half there, then finally take off to drive to Phuket, which is of course on the complete opposite end of Thailand
-15 hours later, and after the spiciest meal my mouth has ever tasted, we meet our local contacts in Phuket
-On a positive note, the place we are staying at right now has milk (not the watered down kind) and cereal for breakfast!!!
(Me & Winston)
Delirious and past the brink of exhaustion, we have arrived and are starting our training all during this week. At this rate, the next 330 days are going to be very, very long, but there is also an anticipation looming within our squad as we are ready to serve the least of these.
Be praying for strength and energy as I learn to qucikly adapt to our environment here. We will be taking another long bus ride to NE Thailand in a couple days. More on what my team’s ministry in Thailand will look like coming up next…
