Awakening
We had different teams for the Awakening, I was on the hospitality team. I helped serve the food each day for breakfast lunch and dinner. We had a time set for each team, for hospitality we played a few games and then a game that lasted all of awakening, assassin. Long story short I won the entire game of assassin. Props to KC and Cece on squad B for trying really hard to get me out. The awakening was entirely squad led, with Hope Mendola Wong teaching for the night sessions. Awakening was so much fun and I really got to learn about another squads experience in person. Squad B has some really cool people on it, definitely go check their blogs out. The meals that we had were good and I want to say thank you to Erika for providing the food for us. At the place where we were staying there were a few animals (that’s exaggerated). There were 3 dogs, 2 of them were Great Danes and they were massive, there were a lot of cats, I didn’t count them all because they looked the same. This was the Awakening, I learned so much from the squad mates that taught us and I really felt like I grew closer with my squad and the other squad and with the Lord.
Debrief
The title is a fun story that I will go into a bit later on, but let me first tell you about what debrief was. Debrief was a 5 day period where we could rest and relax after the first month. We stayed at a hostel with a bunch of other people and staff. We had sessions at night and in the morning we had devos(devotionals). Throughout the day were basically free days, we had opportunities to have one on ones with our coaches, Luis, our squad leaders, and our squad mentor Jodi. If you didn’t have a one on one scheduled you were free the entire day but had to be back by then because that’s when our sessions would start. Now that I explained that i’ll tell you why I almost broke my toe. We had a lot of free time so we went to this soccer field that was nearby to play soccer, spike ball, rugby and football. Being a tall guy the ground looks a lot farther away, especially with my bad eyesight, so when I went to kick the soccer ball I had that moment and I kicked the ground extremely hard. It felt like my toe was broken because I couldn’t walk on it for the rest of that day and the next. A lot of people prayed for healing over it but it was one of those times where I needed to rest. In that time of rest I focused on sleeping, reading the word, and playing on my phone, I wish I wasn’t playing on my phone. All of the debrief days went by and my toe started healing and getting better and I can walk on it and move it. That was Debrief, I learned that I needed to be patient with myself and other people and the Lord helped me walk through that. Thank you so much for reading my blog, I have other blogs that I’m working on so be looking out for those in the next month or so. We are at Impact Africa right now and internet isn’t really a thing so stay tuned for the Impact Africa blog.
