My World Race Purse and birthday
Pure Entertainment:
So, at home, I carried a pretty huge purse. It consisted of all the normal things:
- at least five lip gloss/chapstick’s
- my planner
- ten pencils/pens for every occasion
- my cell phone
- my car and house keys,
Now I am on the World Race: An 11 month to 11 countries mission trip to serve the Lord and grow in faith. As I was “cleaning out” my purse today, I found the contents rather odd and random.
- sleeping mask
- knife
- socks (you never know when Africa will get cold at night)
- toilet paper (advised when going abroad)
- emergency candy bar ( for when a 4 hour bus ride turns into 8 hours)
- ipod and ipod charger
- 3 different currencies
- water
- fruit
- bible
- book
- 1 pen and 1 highlighter
- earplugs
- HEADLAMP
Most important things: headlamp and Bible. I haven’t left “home” without either in an extremely long time!! World Race!
UPDATE:
I am now serving in Eldoret, Kenya. My team is doing construction for a very new, small church, sharing the gospel with the community, and putting mud walls on the church. We live in a mud home with a hysterical pastor, his wife and two little boys. We just arrived, on my birthday ( :0 )
On my Kenyan birthday, I arrived on a bus to our village at 6 am after an 8 hour night bus ride where I got to watch my two favorite movies (the Man from Snowy River and Fireproof) with my sweet teammate Raven. We woke up at ten for breakfast and then went on a walk to see our new community. We found a lake and then a fun adventure of meeting mud fishermen who double as truck washers for their jobs. They led us around the lake to see a hotel and walked us right past a stone blasting zone. We had to run so we wouldn't get hit with the falling stones…fun times. I got to pet two cows and see herds of livestock and a small stockyard. At night my teammates gave me great gifts of apple juice, a beautiful necklace, peanut brittle, chocolate, pringles and encouraging letters..oh and cake flavored popcorn! Creativy is wonderful! Ended the night with pens( World Race style spoons)! Then I read my mom's birthday card she sent with my 7 months ago. I miss you Mom..but that card made MY WEEK!
