And we are at the end of month 2! Romania flew by, tomorrow we leave for Bulgaria!
What happened in Romania? Glad you asked, let me tell you!
Our average day in Romania looked like this: wake up, prayer & intercession from 9:30 to 11:30am! Then we have a break from that time till around 2 or 3. Then we all break out into different ministry options. The different ministries this month ranged from a lot of different awesome things!
Prison ministry, evangelism, handing out Bibles, Eye Glass ministry (handing out eye glasses to those in need), widow ministry, picking up trash, construction work, shucking corn, building connections with locals, painting a church, help building a church,etc.
Ministry would usually end around 6 or 7 depending on what you were doing. Some days were earlier.
Then at 7:30pm we would all come together as a squad family and eat dinner that one of the teams cooked that night!
We’d have team times, time as a squad, worship, etc.
This month has been so fun! We mattress surfed down the stairs, cuddled the mission house kitten and puppy. A lot of inside jokes were made. Then there was the infamous werewolf dog that will attack anything & anyone haha!
We walked EVERYWHERE! Walked to the church daily, walked to the grocery store. Very humbling and definitely helped me walk off the tons of snacks I ate this month.
Crazy, not often you can say you lived with 28 other people! But what a Joy! Had it’s inconvenient moments cause I mean, 22 girls having to share one bathroom… lol but you make things work! The Race has an incredible way of just making you take things as they come and just adjust to any situation you’re put in!
This month God was really was teaching me the importance of integrity and Colossians 3:23 which says: “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters,”
So with that: How do you do the World Race successfully? Well that depends on what you view as success.
One night we asked our squad leader Danny what was one of the most valuable things he learned on his race and he said “Some of the best moments on my race is when I just showed up”. And I totally believe that! I just need to show up and do the things that are asked of me. And not just do them but do them well.
I do my part and God will do His.
I do my part and I leave it open for God to do the miraculous.
By no means have I mastered this, I am learning, I am growing.
So yeah! It’s been absolutely great to be with my entire squad this month!
My squad inspires me. We all got to work together and live together under one roof. I look around my squad, i see a bunch of people giving up a year of their life. Giving up their comfortability to chase after God and his people. I see a group of friends who have so much to offer. Willing hearts. A group of friends looking for something deeper and real. A group of friends who wasn’t satisfied with what life was giving them and chose to go after something worth eternity. It caused sacrifice, it’s still scary and we have our moments of “Can I really do this” but then this overwhelming feeling of gratitude rushes in and it’s like wow it’s such a privilege to get to do this. How did i get here? I get to do this with 28 other friends. I know I couldn’t of done this on my own. Following Jesus is something I’ll always choose because he’s proven that His ways will always be better than mine. That whatever I can dream up , It will always fall short compared to God’s dreams for us! Simply because his ways are higher than ours. And I mean if you just think of how vast the universe is, that’s pretty high.
Reckless abandonment.
Much love, T.
Fun things we learned:
how to hand wash clothes, not look the street dogs in the eye, the saying “don’t let the bed bugs bite” became real our first week, it is possible for 22 girls to share one bathroom, annnnnnndddddd yeah I can’t think of anything else right now but I know there‘s more!
