Howdy Friends,
If you haven’t heard through the grapevine, I am now in South Africa. It is definitely different than Guatemala!! I am sad to say I am no longer on the same team, United Pursuit. But I am excited and looking forward to what God has for me on my new team of wonderful women of God.
1. Mallory: I am so thankful to be on a team with this beautiful soul again. She is a woman of wisdom and a kind heart.
2. Leigh Anne: I don’t even know where to begin with this optimistic beauty. She always has a smile on her face and I am so excited to see what God has for the two of us after 3 months together and 3 more!
3. Miriam: This woman truly is a worshiper. Her heart is kind and after God’s heart.
4. Kat: Truly a blessing. She can make a bad day, a good day.
5. Kyndal: Such a kind hearted soul! Bring so much wisdom everywhere she goes.
6. Madison: A talented artist, who brings joy to every situation.
Now that you have an idea of my new team, please keep us in your prayers as we travel to Lesotho in the next 2 weeks.
Speaking of Lesotho, I am so excited!! Even though I will be sleeping on a living room floor for two months, about 30 minutes from the city…..which means wifi as well!
Let me remind you, when you pray specifically for something, God ALWAYS comes through. Before I had left, maybe a few weeks , my mom had told me a story about a blog she had read, this girl had prayed for God to break her….(excuse me what???). If you are thinking what I was thinking, you are probably thinking thats absolutely crazy. Because thats exactly what I was thinking!! How could someone pray so boldly about something so powerful??
The more I thought about it, the more I wanted the same….(Wait, Mikkala,….are you sure?).
In Guatemala, things happened, people died, I was sick a lot, hospitalized once, in a cast for 10 days (9 days thanks to Mallory), and got worms my last week in Guatemala. Sure I missed home, but I knew this was my path I need to take…
This past week I got to play with so many children. Have them jump on me, play with my hair, did dramas with them, and ran around and played soccer. But Thursday was different….we walked around for hours in down the streets in White River, South Africa. I will never forget one of the first houses we went to, was as big my bedroom back home. There was an elderly lady, who at first didn’t want us to come in. She kept saying “Not today. Not today.” But after we kept asking she finally let us in. We go into this some one bedroom house. She moved stuff around for us to sit with her. But I chose to stand. She moved all these blankets and boxes for me to sit on this plastic crate. When I sat down next to her, she grabbed my hand and continuously rubbed my arm as we prayed for her. I will never forget the fact that she loved so well. There was something about this house and this woman that I couldn’t figure out. After we prayed for about 3 minutes of silence, the woman ( Kathryn) wanted to accept Jesus into her life. Wow! Thats all I could think about! We continued walking and we went the next house, there was three ladies and about 6 or 7 kids. The elderly lady began getting everyone chairs to sit down so we can chat. As we were prayer, the door behind me began to open and was making creepy noises, I couldn’t focus but I didn’t want to have fear, next thing I know a young boy came out of the room and sat straight on my lap. It was so heart warming and this kid gave me the biggest smile. After we were done prayer and were hugging everyone to leave, this one lady there stopped me, she asked where I was from…. I hesitated, but I proceeded to say “ I’m from Texas”. She then told me that something in my voice was so comforting to her. I was speechless .
November 19, 2016. Today was not an easy day for me. I wanted to officially call it quits and go home. I stayed home all day. I got to call home again. “Come back, so you won’t forget me”. – Tynslee ( my 2 year old sister, almost 3). How could I not come home right away? Why would anyone the right mind not buy a plane ticket now and fly home? How do I not go home?
That was the hardest thing that I have heard in my life. But the I am not in the right mind, why, because God is in control of me right now. I want to come home right now, be in my bed, with my family, picking pecans, having Carmel Latte’s with my mom from Starbucks ( most likely me paying), running around playing dolls with my sister, my world.
But missing those things, as hard as it is, reminds of how blessed I am to have such a great family to come back to. The stories I will get to tell Tynslee. The many hours of playing dolls, with no regrets of not finishing God’s work for me.
God doesn’t give his heart in pieces to us, He gives complete. His love is already complete, He can’t love us any less or any more. Gods love me is so indescribable. Theres no way I could give up!!
Thanks so much for reading another one of my blogs, sorry it was so late. Also please continue supporting, still have a long way to go!!
Thanks for all your support and love!!!!!!!
