Angkor Wat, a wonder of the world
Bare minimum living for the month
Constantly crushing water bottles
Dreaming of colder showers
Endless YouTube videos to help the kids learn English
Fast friends with the teachers at the school
Girls weekend at the beach
Humidity that makes it feel like over 100 degrees everyday
Ignoring the rules of the road
Khmer New Year
Lots of cockroaches and fish being sold on the street
More deodorant please!
New Year water fight. No one is exempt!
Obedience… going to Rabbit Island
Painting a wall, then stripping that same wall, then repainting the wall
Quality time while filling up water bottles together
Run away or you’ll get powered and soaked for the New Year
Sticky Rice Family
Teaching with no electricity periodically everyday
Unspeakable amounts of sweat
Very intimate moments with my Creator while riding a boat across the ocean
Watching Avengers: Endgame and being speechless
Xfactor Cambodia style: my teammates eat tarantulas
Young children driving motorcycles
Zillions of ants in our food and home
UPDATE:
- We leave Cambodia on Friday and head to Vietnam. We are in month 10 now… CRAZY! I come home in 54 days.
- We changed teams! This will be my team for the rest of the race. Check out my new teammates and their blogs below! Two of them are from my past team Soul Sisters, two of them are from my past team 42 Deep, one of them I’ve never been on a team with!
Abigail Jernigan (From Soul Sisters)
Sarah Beth Geis (From Soul Sisters)
Sarah Dickmann (From 42 Deep)
Fabienne Boss (From 42 Deep)
Shelby Ross (NEW!)
Me, Abigail Jernigan, Sarah Beth Geis, Fabienne Boss, Sarah Dickmann, Shelby Ross
*** Below are some things that God has been walking me through and asking me to practice these last few months of the race. Doing that now gives me some practice so that when I come home I can continue to step into these changes that Jesus has done in me, even when I am back in my “old environment”.
- Connecting to Jesus, my Father, and the spiritual realm everyday! God knows that for me, doing the same thing everyday does not work. So He has graciously given me multiple ways to connect to Him and the spiritual realm. Some of the ways I can connect: 1. Listening to certain songs, 2. Journaling, 3. Sitting in silence and letting my Father speak and fill me with peace, love, power, and confidence.
- Continuing to let Jesus lead me in humility to apologize when I mess up, striking down the pride that gets in the way of me doing that, and accepting my brokenness ALONG WITH the grace in that brokenness from and through Jesus.
- Voicing what I need or exactly where I am at with the confidence that there is no shame in any of it and I am not a burden.
Please pray with me as I practice these things daily and prepare to come home!
