Training Camp and Travel Days!!!

Good afternoon everyone from Gainesville Georgia! My team and I got to Georgia a little over a week ago! I was skeptical coming in and wondering why we needed to camp in the Georgia heat and humidity for 10 days but it has truly been a sanctuary that the Lord has met me in. There was a lot of work to do in my heart before leaving for our first country, Cambodia. Upon getting to the airport we were met by the most kind staff, excited to receive us and with plenty of their own testimony of surrendering and going overseas. The first few days, I was stuck in a place and didn’t feel like myself. I was bitter towards the Lord and at the timing of everything, and felt like I was leaving a lot behind. I realized how comfortable I got with my own life and my own hobbies and the Colorado mountains, and although these are all good things, I think I was starting to forget where my joy truly comes from. And as excited as I was for this new adventure with the Lord, I cried as the plane landed with my heart grieving everyone and everything I was saying goodbye to (you know who you are) and because I had to wake up so early, thanks dad for driving me to the airport at 4 in the morning. I’m not one who always gets homesick but yes family, I miss you so so much!<3

Since being here, I’ve gotten to slow down and truly get to spend all day every day with the Lord in worship, devotional time, sermons, debrief time, and seeing the way God is already working in my team. We’ve learned about forgiveness, the ways God chooses to speak, confrontation, the gospel, what it means to be a son and daughter, evangelism, and the way God simply wants to spend time with each and every one of us to get to know our hearts. I decided to get baptized for the first time as an adult, along with a few of my squad mates. I was previously baptized around the age of 10, wanting to re proclaim my faith and testify to how present the Lord has been in my life and to accept Him not just for my salvation when I die, but to accept the gospel that Jesus wants to begin to bring restoration and newness in my life right now, to me and everyone near and far.

As my team and I leave for the nations, I would love prayers for unity, that we are able to support each other, and turn to God when we don’t have anything left. Also for the people of Thailand and Cambodia that the gospel would get to be a real part of their lives and that they would experience Jesus and the joy that He brings to all circumstances. Thank you to everyone reading this, my supporters for getting me here, and all of your prayer. I pray that you too get to know the One who raises the dead and brings new life to anyone who receives it.

“And we urge you, brothers and sisters, warn those who are idle and disruptive, encourage the disheartened, help the weak, be patient with everyone. Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else. Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is Godʼs will for you in Christ Jesus. Do not quench the Spirit. Do not treat prophecies with contempt but test them all; hold on to what is good, reject every kind of evil. May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it.”
‭‭1 Thessalonians‬ ‭5‬:‭14‬-‭24‬ ‭NIV‬‬