2 weeks from today, my team and I will be boarding a plane back to America. I can't help but wonder where the past 3 and a half months have gone. Of course, all the different questions people are going to ask me are running through my mind. "How was your trip?" "What all did you do?" "What did you learn?" All valid questions, I might add. But I can't help but wonder how I'm suppose to summerize the past 4 months into a couple sentences.  As I was doing my quiet time this morning, I was really struggling with how I was going to answer all...

2 weeks from today, my team and I will be boarding a plane back to America. I can't help but wonder where the past 3 and a half months have gone. Of course, all the different questions people are going to ask me are running through my mind. "How was your trip?" "What all did you do?" "What did you learn?" All valid questions, I might add. But I can't help but wonder how I'm suppose to summerize the past 4 months into a couple sentences.  As I was doing my quiet time this morning, I was really struggling with how I was going to answer all...

    So we officallly have like, barely two weeks left. I'm sorry, what? I seriously can't believe that i have been here for so long, because it feels like only yesterday that i was laying on the tarp at training camp thinking " What the hell have i gotten myself into?! " But, alas, our time is indeed almost up. It feels weird, like since this is my life, when i go home its like ill be thrown into a brand new life that i know nothing about. Also, i wont see my team everyday and that freaks me out since theyre like my friends now…. Anyway that being...

    So we officallly have like, barely two weeks left. I'm sorry, what? I seriously can't believe that i have been here for so long, because it feels like only yesterday that i was laying on the tarp at training camp thinking " What the hell have i gotten myself into?! " But, alas, our time is indeed almost up. It feels weird, like since this is my life, when i go home its like ill be thrown into a brand new life that i know nothing about. Also, i wont see my team everyday and that freaks me out since theyre like my friends now…. Anyway that being...

Lately I think about home 24/7. Today I was laying in my bed staring at the wall and thinking about everything that means home for me. My family, friends, church, food, and my animals. For a moment I forgot where I was but then my door swung open and one of my teammates walked in. Snapped back to reality, where I live with nine other people and am almost never alone. In reality I am surrounded by poverty and pain that I can't even begin to understand. Every day when I walk out of the gate there are children calling my name and jumping on me. I walk down the street and I see naked...

Lately I think about home 24/7. Today I was laying in my bed staring at the wall and thinking about everything that means home for me. My family, friends, church, food, and my animals. For a moment I forgot where I was but then my door swung open and one of my teammates walked in. Snapped back to reality, where I live with nine other people and am almost never alone. In reality I am surrounded by poverty and pain that I can't even begin to understand. Every day when I walk out of the gate there are children calling my name and jumping on me. I walk down the street and I see naked...