This has really been the first month where I didn’t have consistently available internet, and while that has been slightly difficult because I wasn’t able to talk to my fam for Christmas I think it has been a really great thing for our team this month. I know this blog doesn't have pictures and all that fun stuff but when we were told we get to go interwebs I didn't have time to get pics ready, sorry friends!
We prepared for Christmas just like any good World Race family, making gifts for our teammates out of random bits and pieces from our packs, or anything else we could find around the house. We had a Secret Santa and I had my teammate Liv, so I made her a message in a bottle with an invitation to a romantic candlelit dinner to be had later this week(pretty excited about this, not gonna lie). My teammate Allison pulled my name and made me an awesome scavenger hunt around our compound and at the end of it our hammocks were set up and I had a note for a hammock date!! Yay for hammock time, I think that has possibly been one of my favorite parts of this month. We also made a gift card for Erika and Louis, we will be making them dinner one night and setting up a nice evening for the two of them. They are so precious!
A couple nights ago we had a bonfire in this huge fire pit Louis built semi-recently, this thing is awesome. Everyone came out and we sat around the fire, drinking coffee and telling stories, it was such a lovely evening. Last night I went out and had some sweet worship time with the Lord, sitting next to the fire, dancing around a bit, singing louder than I should and generally being a weird World Racer. I haven’t spent that kind of alone time with my Jesus in some time so it was nice to just be in His presence singing about who He is, and what I am because I am His. This month has been a bit more restful spiritually than the last, I told my team the other night that I just wasn’t quite sure where Jesus and I were, I didn’t necessarily think things were bad, but I wasn’t sure they were good either. I just don’t feel Him quite as constantly pulling at my heart and soul like in the weeks previous. But I’m beginning to realize that sometimes my relationship with my Savior doesn’t have to be strenuous, it doesn’t have to be hard work, sometimes we just get to BE. So that’s where I am currently, hanging out with Jesus and my teammates, picking weeds in South Africa. Welcome to the World Race.
Lindsey
