Did I mention they decided to make me a leader of a team for the year. Yikes.
Day 6 Training Camp
I thought I was going to get sent home.
The staff decided they wanted to play a symbolic-missionary game. The rules were slightly vague. Find your family, missionary, pastor, and church. Don’t go to jail and that was about it. This is what the game looked like to me. Get yelled at, go to jail, have your shoes and head lamp taken from you. Next, get hosed down in the sand, while doing push-ups and having ketchup, eggs, and some form of flour poured all over you.
At one point they were making fun of my friend’s alma matter so I started to sing the Ram’s fight song hoping it would produce some laughs. One of the staff that I am friends with wanted to make sure I was getting the point of this game so made it a point to harass me. At one point I was pushed on the grass and he began dragging me to jail. Now I am not really into hazing so I thought that this would be a good time to assert myself.
So you know what I did? I kicked him in the…
I thought I was going to get sent home.
Like they had fill in leaders they would drive in from outside Atlanta for cases just like this when people lose their cool by doing Chuch Norris moves on the staff during missionary-game-day. I had to apologize to my friend afterward. He said he thought it was funny. I think he said that mostly because he didn’t want me to do it again and kill any hope of future kids. He still covers when I see him. If you are reading this I am sorry.
Anywho. I got the point. While it was not my favorite exercise I think they were trying to show us to the smallest degree what persecution might look like to see how we would respond. I don’t tell you this stuff for you to think that Adventures in Missions is some crazy cult playing reindeer games in the forest so they can take out their anger for having had to eat ugali for the past year. I tell you this because I trust my squad leaders. I trust I can say that I am frustrated when I am frustrated and struggling when I am struggling and I won’t be judged for it.
Ending Note
Please pray for my team to have unity through peace. Pray for me to have boldness, courage, health, wisdom, patience, and larger biceps.
