ago…already!! This trip is flying
by! Our time in Thailand was sweet
and we got to see a lot of really amazing things, we got to learn some of the
true culture of the Thai people, and we made some great friends through our
ministry. Thailand wasn’t nearly
as random as Malaysia, but we still had our fair share of craziness and
antics…like when the massive rain storms moved in and tried to flood our home. We were teamed up with the ladies of
Team Se7en so there were 11 of us girls living together in community…yup, I
lived through living with 11 girls under one roof for an entire month! I really miss our contacts – Ram is
such an amazing woman and I can’t wait until she has her little baby and Nun,
her husband, is one of the most resourceful and crafty men I’ve ever met. By the end of the month of building
walls and mastering rain storms I started thinking in every situation “What
would Nun do right now?” He knows
a lot about a lot of things and can use any piece of material to make
anything…so cool! Then we had to
leave Thailand and drove away from some amazing people and one of the cutest
little boys I’ve ever met, Bue…he was choking back tears as we drove away…I
would literally adopt him if I could
Then we arrived in KENYA!!!!!!!!!!! We got there on the exact day that I
left Kenya last year…and we missed the Baylor Sports Mission team by about 12
hours – I was soooooo bummed!!! We
had debrief for a couple days in Nairobi and my team changed again. One of my teammates, Sarah, is now the
team leader for another team (I forgot their new team name) and our sister Jess
decided it would be better for her to continue growing spiritually back at
home. So now we are down to five
members.
We left for an 8 hour bus ride to Kitale, Kenya…which
included a two hour dance party …amazing!! We met our contact, Moses, and his family. He is quite possibly one of my favorite
people now. We couldn’t have asked
for a better contact this month and we have really had one of the most
incredible months of ministry. We
have done things like hospital ministry, prison ministry, evangelism in
villages and in urban businesses, we’ve visited children’s homes, churches, and
have gotten to hang out at the local coffee shop and talk to other missionaries
from the States and other countries.
There have been so many awesome contacts that we’ve made here and our
team has really been stepping out and experiencing all of Kenya. God is truly doing something special
here and I can’t believe this month is almost over. My experience this year is completely different than our
mission trip last year, but God continues to grow my world-wide ministry
perspective and He’s beginning to give me some vision for my future. I still have no idea what that future
will hold, but I’m so open to what God has in store!!!
