Let me tell you a bit about myself. I honestly am not a great blogger, probably not even a great writer. That doesn’t mean I do not love to write. I tried to blog when I went on a two week trip to Portland last year. I think I blogged the first day, and that is the end of that story. I promised myself that this trip, it would be the trip where I blog at least once a week. In this brief time that I have, I will try to pour my heart out into what has happened so far.
I left Little Rock around seven a.m. the morning on the first. It was hard and I had a lot of emotions going through me, but I have made it this far. I kept asking myself how I thought I could do this and I kept being reminded of how long I would be away from everyone and it was hard. I made it here to Gainesville, Georgia and I have enjoyed every moment since. My team is legend- wait for it -dary. The five days at training camp were hard and full of lessons. Our team went from seven to six, and I learned more about God’s will and trusting in Him more than ever before. I can say I do not miss the bucket showers and not having a real toilet, but one thing I will miss that I know others won’t is the cat that followed us around. Somehow, this little cat had found its way into our tent one night, cuddled up against our leader purring ever so loud. This same cat whenever it came up to me I would give it water and carry it around to camp area.
Enough about cats, fast forward a bit. After our five days of training, we left Monday morning. When we got to the Atlanta airport I did not feel shaken at all, I felt at peace. As we walked though the airport we ended up singing with people we had never met, we laughed and I felt our team grow even closer. We all started getting ready to go past security. I was able to go through no problem, my bags being much less heavy than I had previously assumed. After I handed my passport and I saw my luggage go down the track, I went and stood by a few of my fellow teammates. I had no idea that some of my teammates were starting to feel anxious. It wasn’t until my leader came over and told us, that three girls from our team had somehow gotten their tickets cancelled. If this had been any other time before training camp, honestly I probably would have freaked out and would have felt so anxious. I did not feel that way though, I felt a calm sweep over me and like a soft whisper in my inner being tell me, “Trust Me.” Talk about wow. I think trust is an issue I have been having but had never tried to fix.
Those three girls are leaving this evening, and have a leader with them. My team is now in Qatar after a thirteen hour flight. Once we arrived and went through security we were told by our leader that our next flight to Malaysia had been cancelled and that she would get in contact with the people needed to figure out what our next steps would be. God has this. We might not understand why certain things happen the way we do, but it gives me peace to know God will never leave us or forsake us. It wasn’t long after when our leader came to us and had found a flight, and so I end this. We will be leaving in about an hour, on our way to Malaysia. I am so excited to see God work in the lives of the people we meet. He is such a good father.
