This past week of my life has been so amazing. I have been challenged you spiritually, mentally, and physically. I developed relationships with so many wonderful people. I cant even explain all that happened this past week.
Sadly it was storming this morning and we didn't end up going over to Blackwood for our morning session to teach ESL. Instead half of us work on donations distribution and the group I was a part of prepared our skit for Saturday's youth group. It was a productive morning even though it wasn't what we originally planned. We had quite a lot of free time at lunch to explore the island. Walking along a sand bar out into the ocean. We took the 3:00pm ferry to Eleuthera. Our afternoon was full of playing with the children. The weather cleared up and the afternoon was absolutely beautiful. All of the children ran over to us. Hugging us and instantly starting to play games. I got to play volleyball against six of the Haitian girls. Let's just say I lost... majorly. However, it was extremely fun to play with them. After the intense volleyball game, one of the younger girls grabs me by the hand takes me up ont...
On the 14th of January, I volunteered to lead the Children's Ministry team of our trip. This means I am in charge of planning the "VBS" for the children. Basically this trip has made me very busy. I am still so overwhelmed and it still feels so unreal. I leave in 3 weeks, it's bizarre!! I have been learning lots of French and so much about the culture in the Bahamas. There are so many amazing traditions there. God has truly been challenging me as I prepare for this trip. Twenty- three days to go until I am in Spanish Wells. I cannot wait to see what God has in store for me.
There are many things that I have learned these past 10 months. The RV was challenging and in some moments I thought it was only making my relationships with my family members worse. But I know we have become closer than I will ever realize. Not only did it challenge me in the way I acted towards my siblings but it challenged me in my walk with God and in personal aspects of my life. Patience I have known for quite some time that patience with my family isn’t one of the areas I am strongest in. I can be very patient with friends but when it comes down to the moments when my brothers are getting on my last nerves I don’t usually think before I speak or act. Being so close to them all day made me get irritated faster. There was no place to go to get ‘me time’ or to breathe, which was the hard...
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