So this is a must share story. This isn’t unusual for me to write blogs at 3 am, but something just wasn’t right tonight. I’m off of my schedule and it’s weird. I’ve been anxious, but excited, frustrated but joyful, caught in an array of all these crazy emotions. But being that I am not able to sleep I started to read blogs about Training Camp and what all happens at them. So I have been browsing current/future Racers’ blogs for anything that gives me a glimpse of Training Camp. Okay, so if The World Race Training Camp is as good as the Real Life Training Camp then, wow, Training Camp is going to be amazing! I just want to give a few cents about what RL Training was like. It’s hard to use words but there is a video to share (it’s down below).
This was a banner the team created as a vision for the trip.
Training Camp…what can I say besides WOW! Solely God! I have no clue what WR Training Camp will be like, what all we will do, what worship will be like…but I do know that it’s going to be amazing. Why? First off, last summer before I left for Peru, all the Real Life teams had training together. So 130 college-age students. Our team was 16 students and 2 leaders. For years I had struggled with apathy and anger and I had asked for my team to pray for my apathy, because I didn’t want to deal with it anymore. My team prayed and to say the least that day sucked. I had no desire to do anything, I didn’t want to read, I didn’t want to pray…or even talk. If you know me, that’s sooo unusual. Anyways, as a large group we had a service where we surrendering our baggage over by writing the issues on an egg. Originally, I guess the plan was for everyone to throw their eggs, but then all of camp would smell really bad. However, I couldn’t stop crying because I felt like there was so much. I ended up going up to my leader to confess what was going on and had asked for prayer and she knew that I wasn’t able to release until I saw the egg smash and crumble in front of my eyes. OKay, I have decent aim, but not enough for what is to be said next. She told me to throw it as hard as I could and I did. I chucked the egg, because I was so ready to get rid of it, but part of me wanted to cling on. The egg smashed dead center of a waterfall that hadn’t been turned on yet. There is no way that I was able to make it land dead center. It’s just funny to see how we need God in order move on. There is no way we can do this on our own. Oh and get this, that night after releasing the egg, came a release of joy and peace and freedom I had never experienced to that point. Let me remind you, this was day 2.
This was a banner the team created as a vision for the trip.So, WR Training is 8 days. If God was able to do this in less than 2 days, what is going to happen in 4 times that? So much more. I am soooo excited to see how God works in the 68 others on my squad and how He draws us closer to Him in this. I don’t expect training to be easy, but man is it going to be good!
