I have had someone constantly encouraging me to write a blog in the last couple weeks. So thank you to that person, you know who you are.??
This blog is going to have a couple of different topics covered in it. It will have a review of the past couple weeks. I will also share how I have been feeling the last couple months.
The last blog I wrote, talked about our ministry in Cambodia but I am already in the second month from that point. Many things have happened so here is what went on. After our Cambodia ministry, we had a week of debrief with our leadership in Siem Reap. After a couple travel days to get to Thailand and a day of waiting we finally made it to PVT. PVT is where some of the parents were able to come out to the field and see the kids and do ministry with them. My parents arrived a little early to the hotel and I happened to pass them in the lobby. It was a great reunion of getting to see my parents after 246 days. The week with them was refreshing and great. After this week we met back up with the our new teams for ministry.
We had been given new teams at the debrief in Cambodia so this would be the first month of ministry with this new team. As we were preparing to head to our ministries around Chiang Mai, our leadership contacted us and said we had to move out of the city because of the horrible air pollution. The team decided to go to Bangkok and we were blessed to find a church that was able to host us. We also got to use our skills and talents in the two different forms of ministry in the month. After about two weeks it was time to travel to our next country of Malaysia.
We are still in the month of our time in Malaysia but it has been a month that has been split up by ministry locations. The first two weeks was spent doing sports ministry in Ipoh. This meant playing ultimate frisbee or soccer for two to three hours every night. i was in great shape by the time these two weeks passed. We also spent time at a dementia center interacting with the staff and clients there. The mornings there were spent with a lot of laughter. After these two weeks we sort of changed the role in the ministry. We spent time in two different cities teaching ultimate frisbee to youth instead of just competing like we had done the first two weeks.
A couple members of the team made a short trip to Singapore thinking that our whole team would meet back in KL for the last week of ministry originally planned by the host. This plan fell through at the last minute so our team will be split up for the last week. The four of us in KL will be doing sports and the other four went north to do kids ministry.
The four of us staying in KL were fortunate enough to find a place to stay with my aunt and uncle for the week we are here. I thought I might be able to meet up with them at some point but it has been great to spend a week staying with them. After the week in KL we will move onto our last country of Indonesia.
This wraps up all that has gone on in the last two months. I will transition to what I have been feeling the last two months.
So I don’t know exactly when I started feeling the way I did but I think it was over a course of time. It was in Thailand where I felt just exhausted all the time. I started to miss reading the Bible daily and would just sleep all the time. There was a couple days where I just didn’t want to do anything else. After telling the team about it I was able to finish the end of the month better. i started thinking about why it is so hard to finish? After looking back on my life I have realized that I am always energized and ready to start something but after some time this all fades away and finishing seems so much harder than the starting did. I haven’t looked into why it is like this but I have noticed this to be a common occurrence to me. I would think that finishing something would spark something in a person to finish better than they started. This is just a small look into what I have been thinking about recently.
So with the end of the Race in site, a prayer request that I have is to finish the time with the same excitement and joy I had to start with.
