It will be a year on the 13th five days from today!
It's crazy to think that a year ago in five days I left for the greatest experience of my young life so far.
I had many emotions while waiting at the Allentown airport with my parents.
Excited
Scared
Nervous
Happy
Sad
All the above plus more
Wanting to run for the door and never look back. A few times I joked with my parents "Let's go back home…haha" but really that's what I was thinking.
Now I realized that it was the devil trying to put me down, making me weak, making me believe that I couldn't handle 11 months without my parents, the comforts of home, a real car, friends…ect. Yet I was able to move past the thoughts of dougt, that had been collecting in my mind.
I was able to board and fly to Pilly and then onto Miami. It was better when I was with the rest of the squad. I felt energized and ready to face any obstical at that moment anyway…
I knew once I was on the airplane heading too Ecuador that the adventure was just starting.
Once in Ecuador during debrief/launch, I started to feel the Holy Spirt all around me. I felt so lifted and loved by the Holy spirt in a room with others who felt the same way.
The reality of being on the race didn't hit home until we were at ministry digging holes, moving rock, removing dirt, moving cement, making rebarb collums. Working 8-9 hours a day almost everyday. It was our first ministry and their first team so they didn't realize when we tell them we have an off day every wek. They thought that ment only working a few hours on our of day.
It was hard work and I thought that if this was what I had to look oward too or the whole race, I knew I wouldn't have made it…lol.
Yet I did, and to tell you the truth after month 1 it was ok work after that. I would have to say that we did the most on the aspect of constrution work in month 1.
Yet no matter how hard the job was, or how challengeing it was I am gratefull that I finish the mission trip till the very end.
Now I am able to say I traveled to 11 countries in 11 months doing God's work. Not to brag but to say I finished it with my head held high.
It makes me gratefull for the love of my family back home and the family I had in my team members that made me realize that without them it would have been a different story.
The World Race has changed my life for the better.
