Good day yall! It’s morning here for me, and I’m getting ready to make some breakfast with some friends of mine to practice assisting the chef in making food in the other countries! But I wanted to share some cool things from the past few days!
For starters, I’ve been landlocked to this Adventures in Missions Campus for 2 1/2 weeks!!! I haven’t left yet, and I was getting a little stir crazy. I didn’t realize how much I loved the freedom to drive!! So when we packed up to go hike a mountain and spend the night on the summit, I was beyond happy about it! It was so nice to be in a car and feel like I was flying again, but I did get the tiniest bit carsick since it’s been almost 3 weeks haha!😅
We get to the mountain and hike up, and it felt to nice to use my body and exercise like that. It was hard, especially with most of my belongings on my back in a “big pack”, but it was awesome and made me feel strong (yes I am sore). We got to a viewpoint and I was like oh yeah! This is worth it!! But yall, we got to the top…. Unreal. I haven’t seen a view like this on a mountain before. It was beautiful!!!! We could see soooo much at once, and all the storms and sun rays all over the valley. I will say, the moment was pretty much perfect besides my overwhelming desire to have my family there with me. My groups amazing, but I was devastated to be doing this climb without my close fam and it hurt so bad to be experiencing such beauty and they weren’t apart of it.
luckily, I have some amazing aunts who reminded me to fully embrace where I am. Embrace it! This is going to be the last time I’m hiking with this awesome group this here mountain. All this to say, emotional roller coaster is the new name of the game 🤣 I definitely was sooo happy to be there, so in awe of God and just as sad all in one! But the view was worth the climb, and I know enduring this hardship of this time is worth what’s on the other side too.
To continue, God has been teaching me that I am who I am!! I am made exactly as He made me, and He’s proud of me. I don’t need to change unless He draws me nearer to Him in a way that He wants to fix some of the crevices of my heart, but He’s not a God that abruptly hurts or changes you. He’s slow and steady. So knowing this I’m walking with joy that my God is walking me through my each moment by holding my hand and He’s not forcing me to become some crazy missionary girl. But I do need to sit with Him and let go of the control and pressures I’m putting onto myself to walk in even more freedom. Is this going to be easy? No. But can I do it because of the strength God has given me and who I am?! Yes. It will be well with my soul. It is well with my soul.
