Where do I even begin?… So much happened during the 10 days I was at Training Camp in Gainesville GA it all just seems like a big blur.
I guess I’ll start at the beginning. The first night, I decided to not set up my tent and instead sleep in my hammock since there was only a 10% chance of rain… terrible idea. I got to set up my tent at 1am in the pouring rain. What a great way to start the week. Everything I brought was soaked. Once I finally got into my tent in the middle of the night and laid down to get some sleep I couldn’t help but to just smile and laugh at myself. God was already teaching me some lessons.
The next 9 days.. well.. I’m still trying to process everything that happened. A lot of it I don’t even know how to put in words. God did so many awesome things in my life during those next 9 days. He opened my eyes to things I hadn’t even thought about. He made me realize my identity is not my own but it is in Christ. I am a son of God. I still have trouble wrapping my head around this thought process. I don’t think we were meant to understand it though.
When we weren’t eating weird food from different countries we were attending sessions and worshipping. The sessions were awesome. They challenged and convicted me in ways I didn’t think possible. Worship was rad. Witnessing so many people worship our Holy Father in their own way was nothing but beautiful. Long story short, it was lit.
Training scenarios… They sucked, but they were also a lot of fun. Awkward sleeping arrangements with our entire squad (53 people), our mentors taking our packs for a day, pooping in a porta-john for 10 days (that part wasn’t fun), and bucket showers. These situations and scenarios that we faced made us all get to know one another real quick. And I loved it.
Sure, It was only 10 days in the hot Georgia sun with 52 other people. But during those 10 days I grew so radically in my faith, I made best friends, I learned so much about myself and others, I got wayyyy out of my comfort zone. And I am a more mature Christian because of it. I can’t wait for October to get here, to see all my friends again and launch to Ecuador with them to share the love of Jesus. To glorify God. And to Bring the Kingdom.
“but God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He does not come through” -Francis Chan (Crazy Love)
