IM FULLY FUNDED!!!! I am feeling so blessed. So honored. So humbled. WOW! This has been such an amazing experience and now — its come to a close. I am so so pleased. Now that this journey is closed, I am excited to share simply my experiences and where my heart is at on the race more fully.
Believe it or not — I have already finished nearly four months of the race. In just one week, I will be meeting up with my squad for our next travel day to Malawi. Once we get to Malawi we will have Month 4 Debrief; which is basically the halfway point of the race. Wow! So with all of that — I wanted to use this blog to tell you where I am at.
So here goes.
It seems like so far in my life (as most teenagers) I have rushed through life. Always looking forward to the next thing. Junior year — I couldn’t WAIT to be a senior. To finally have all the things that seniors get to have. To be able to stand at the front of the student section at football games, to have things like senior picnics, to take senior photos, etc. Well, you can safely bet that around the time senior year came around, I was rushing through it. I couldn’t wait to graduate, to start the world race, to hurry up — hurry up — hurry up!!! Then I started the world race. In India, I was already looking into what I needed to do in order to be set up for college next year. Y’all. THAT WAS MONTH 1. I was already about to skip over the whole world race. Someone stop me lol. I began to talk to my friends who were already at the college I am planning on attending next year (Liberty University — GO FLAMES!!!) and my friends were like, “dude. LU is great, but what are you doing?? Look where you are!!” And wow. I was almost a little triggered that I was being told I wasn’t allowed to go ahead and rush to the next thing.
But thank goodness someone gave me this feedback. I needed it soooooo bad.
Since then, I’ve been able to sit where I am — and really see my surroundings. To take in these things that I may never be able to experience ever again. As I sit in Kubu Cafe (the only place with wifi that works enough to do anything in all of Livingstone, Zambia haha) — I see the staff. I feel the warmth of their smiles. I think about TODAY. I think about what today actually has for me. The Lord will truly worry about tomorrow for me. As He tells us in His Word. I am so happy to be sitting in the present. Theres no place like it. (Haha yeah you’re right that one was cheesy.) I am thankful. I am blessed.
I’ve been thinking a lot about how I am getting to go to places that most people will never have any thoughts or even the desire to visit and how I am getting to experience the beauty of each country that others will maybe never get to experience. Sometimes my life truly feels like a dream. I am loving the World Race so much.
Oh. And I have loved Zambia a TON but — my team here is coming to a close. I have six days until we leave for Malawi for two months. I am sooo excited as we will be having our second debrief. We will also be finding out our new teams, which could likely be our teams for the remainder of the race. But before any of that our MANistry team will be heading to the rural for the last six days. I am excited to go. We were also in the rural for the first two weeks of this month. Be praying for me and my team as we head that way today.
Thank you all for reading. Be sure to comment and subscribe after you give this blog a read. Thanks for all the love. All the prayer. Thanks for fully funding me. Y’all support me so well.
Logan Martini
