last day of world race ministry

It’s our last day of ministry.

 

We aren’t doing much until tonight when our three girls come by for english club. we are going to make hot chocolate topped with whipped cream and these little sugar sticks that I found. I love our english clubs :] So I thought I would sit down and write down my thoughts. It’s been a while since I’ve written a blog soooo….

 

 

>>I mean, I knew this day was coming, but really? This soon?<<

 

I wish I had something really profound to say- something that can sum up my whole experience, something that would inspire all of you who read this to live your life like never before…

 

 â€¦but I got nothing.

 

I mean, I could try to make something up, but I have a feeling it would turn out to sound like a bad version of a country song that’s already been written…. Dang what’s the name of that song…something about riding a bull and bungee jumping….or something….

 

Plus my mind is EVERYWHERE at the moment. I can’t seem to make it stay still long enough to complete a thought.

 

It’s like my mind hasn’t caught up with where my body is. I know that I have just spent 11 months traveling the world, working with amazing organizations that are changing humanity, all the while sleeping on the floor, living out of a backpack, eating some of the most wonderful food ever created (annnnnd some of the worst…but not this month! Dang the food is so freaking good here), finding out things about God and myself that I would have never found out if I would have stayed in the States, and blah blah blah…. I know all of that, but it all seems like a foggy dream.

 

 

I also feel that when I get back to the states (IN 8 DAYS… holy.) that time will have somehow magically stopped while I was away. That I will just pick up where I left off and things will just fall into place perfectly.

 

Yes, I have a very good feeling about it all.

 

 

My mind is constantly switching from ‘ok this is my last month! I love Moldova !!’ mindset to ‘ok I’m freaking out about all I have to do when I get back to the states’ mindset.

 

 

But I will tell you this: even though this is our last month and we are just days away from being thrown back into the real world, God is still teaching me. Just because the last days of this chapter of my life is coming to an end, God isn’t done with me yet! (wooo woooooo!) I’m still learning who He is, why I serve Him, how to serve Him and how to serve the world I live in…. etc.

 

I have been so freaked out and sad about this trip ending that I have forgotten how good it is to actually end a chapter of life. I mean, anything could happen when I get home. The suspense of what lies ahead, that’s what keeps people reading, right?

 

I kind of got upset the other day because I don’t have it all figured out, but how sad would that be? To have figured out everything in one year… BOR-ING.

 

Nope, I still have a lot of learning to do. I’m just so blessed to have gotten the opportunity to gain a stronger foundation of who God is while seeing the world and gaining new friends and family along the way.

 

>>Did I really just spend 11 months of my life traveling the world?<<

 

oh that reminds me, the other day we made those paper fish things, you know, the ones that you can open the flap and read the fortune to your friends that you have just made up. It’s the one with the colors and numbers and you have to spell out and count out then they choose… anyways, my fortune said that I would loose all my friends due to my new nature of one-uping everyone with my new experiences (thanks Justin for planting that little seed in the back of my head). So every time I go to write a blog or mention how surreal it feels to be at the end of this race and have so many stamps in my passport I think of that fortune and how I sound like some tool who is bragging about how great and cultured I am… lol

 

 

Maybe I’ll be able to find the perfect words to end this trip with by the end of final debrief?

 

….Probably not…..

 

<3 from Moldova