Well, I’m really sad to be leaving Asia. As almost everyone who knows me well should know, I love Asian culture. It was a super sweet experience to be here, and I’m incredibly sad to leave (Lo once said that she thinks that if I ever visited Japan I would never leave, and I wholeheartedly agree with her). It’s also weird to know that I’ve completed the first section of my race. It doesn’t feel real to say that I’ve already finished my first continent, but here we are. Asia is complete! God’s taught me a lot here in Asia, but now he’s leading me to a whole new place.
Hilariously, I can think back a few years to when I had gone on my first mission trip to the Dominican Republic, and first began to read “Kisses from Katie.” I remember remarking to myself, “Wow! That’s so cool that this girl did such amazing missionary work in Africa! I can do the DR, but I don’t think I could ever go to Africa.”
Well, fast forward a couple years and here I am, literally about to spend 4 months in a country I absolutely never thought I would visit. But like I said, here I am.
Man, I love God’s sense of humor sometimes. Me, a city-girl from Northern Virginia about to spend 4 months in the bush of Africa, all for His glory. It’s a story you’d never expect to hear, and I think that’s what makes it all the better for His name, don’t you agree?
My hopes for Africa are to start walking in the new conviction that I have, that I’m made new in Christ, and begin to live out that conviction by spending more time with Him in the Bible, in prayer, and in my attitude living on the race. Those are my goals, but God, help me because I absolutely can’t do this without you.
Africa, here I come!
