Lesotho is pretty amazing. The people are fun, the children are cute and the views are amazing. We’ve been getting a feel for what this city and what the people are like. We’ve been to a community center that works as an after school program. We went to a preschool and saw the most precious children with a love for life. Friday night we visited the college and worshiped with 50 other young adults. Thursday, which was our adventure day for the week, we drove about 2 hours and then horseback rode to the tables waterfall in Southern Africa.
As a team we have had calling higher conversations. Our intentions are never to call people out on the things they say or do, but to call each other higher into what God has called us to be. We have played cards, watched movies, talked about becoming future sister-in-laws because we will marry brothers in South Africa. We have shared testimonies and fears, what the enemy has been speaking to us when we are alone. We cook together, eat together, clean together, sleep together. You are literally never alone. Unless you go on to the porch, but then 5 minutes into you sitting there, 2 other teammates come out because its just so nice outside.
I haven’t felt very homesick. Although I did just wake up from a dream about my mom and Chik-fil-a. So now I’m missing Chik-fil-a more than I thought I would.. I mean my mom more than I thought I would. I find myself thinking about home sometimes and what the people are doing. I think about my little munchkins that I babysat all the time and how Malachi loves Cheetos. I think about my friends who just had a baby and wonder how they’re adjusting. I think about my mom starting school soon and how amazing this school year is going to be for her and the 4th grade superheroes. I think about my best friends and how they didn’t write me a letter before I left, #StillBitter. I think about home a lot more than I wish I would and that is what led me to the title of this blog.
I will be off of iMessage, Skype, Facebook, Instagram, e-mail and possibly anything else until October. I’ll update my blog just so you know that I am alive, but I really want to try and be intentional with my team and the people in this country. I’ll let them upload pictures and tag me in them so you can still see my face and know that I’m not sleeping all the time. This is going to be pretty hard, especially when everyone else is checking in with their fam, but I asked the Lord to challenge me this year and this is a start!
So please pray for me. Pray that I would rely on the strength of the Lord and would have faith that He is taking care of my people back home. Pray that I would be attentive to the needs of His children and be willing to jump more even outside my comfort zone. But most of all, pray for my mom. She hates when I take things to the extreme. They say you have 6 days of no social media, I say lets make it a month!!! Love you mom!
Ps. Still Email me cause I’d love to read them all in October!!!
