This month in Rwanda has probably been my favorite month on
the Race so far. Our team learned how to really honor and pursue each other and
to love one another deeper than ever. I learned to pursue God more intimately
and to hear from Him in different ways. In the midst of all this learning, our
team had more fun than ever. While the middle of the Race carries a certain
heaviness and exhaustion with it, we fought against it, we fought for our joy,
and we fought for each other. It’s been an unfortunately short month but it has
been a month, not only of blessings, but of abundance.
Getting to go to a random African graduation party: Blessing
Starting a dance party at the graduation party: Abundance
Getting to go to a random African wedding: Blessing
Starting a dance party at the wedding: Abundance
Having all of our meals made and not having to worry about
getting groceries: Blessing
Eating French fries twice a day every day: Abundance
Getting to watch Amber fall down the hill our house is on: Blessing
Getting to watch Tricia pee her pants laughing at Amber: Abundance
Watching our team learn to pursue and honor each other: Blessing
Being taken out for a night on the town by our men: Abundance
Girls’ night out: Blessing
Eating an entire pizza by myself: Abundance
Having Tricia spend the month with us: Blessing
Spooning with Tricia in our three-person bed every night: Abundance
Living with a loving family: Blessing
The patience they showed me as they taught me how to cook
and to speak Kinyarwanda: Abundance
and to speak Kinyarwanda: Abundance
Having church every night: Blessing
Having a dance party at church every night: Abundance
Convincing Tricia to pee in a bucket: Blessing
Convincing Amber to smell it ten days later: Abundance
Jared receiving a new pair of flipflops after breaking his
old ones: Blessing
old ones: Blessing
Watching Jared break his new flipflops ten minutes later: Abundance
Preaching in a Rwandan church: Blessing
Watching the congregation cheer my name: Abundance
Being informed of what a butterfly kiss is: Blessing
Being given a butterfly kiss to emphasize the point: Abundance
Taking JD to the only Mexican restaurant in Rwanda: Blessing
Finding out the restaurant has a trampoline and white
bunnies: Abundance
bunnies: Abundance
Watching Amber get proposed to by a Rwandan in a dark corner:
Blessing
Blessing
Eating her love cookies the man gave her as a love offering:
Abundance
Abundance
Watching Pastor and JD baptize people in a Rwandan lake: Blessing
Getting baptized by Amber and Tricia in a Rwandan lake: Abundance
Going door-to-door: Blessing
Watching one young girl come to Christ and then later get
baptized because God sent us to her door: Abundance
baptized because God sent us to her door: Abundance
Next stop: Uganda.
(Sorry for the lack of pictures, African internet is not the best.)
