Thailand!

All week we were extremely anxious for Friday! It was the big day we would find out our outreach locations! In the morning session, they wrote the 4 choices on the board. The only information we received were the names of the places. Then, we had some time to go and pray, and ask God where we should go. We were not supposed to talk to any of the other students, just hear from God. Initial, I began to feel very overwhelmed. This was a big decision to make. I started to pray, but my emotions were getting in the way of hearing anything. I went and found my good friend Tatum to pray with me. (She’s staff so it was okay to talk to her about it). She began to pray with me, and within minutes I knew where I was supposed to go. I didn’t get the word Thailand, I didn’t get a picture of the country or anything like that, I just got excited about it. I got excited, and a peace that I could only get from God. The 4 places are:

1. Nepal and India
2. Thailand and Philippines
3. Samoa and Fiji
4. Vanuatu

I wrote my name and Thailand on a sheet of paper and turned it in. For the next 30 minutes I wait while everyone else finished up. It was a long 30 minutes! Then, everyone came back together and we found out our teams! As they call my team up to the front, I got more and more excited! I love love my leaders and everyone on my team! All the teams ended up having around the same number of people on them, it was so cool to see how the Lord worked that out, and knew the teams before we picked them!

So Friday was cool, then Saturday I went surfing!!! The first Saturday of every month one of the churches here does free surfing lessons and a barbecue! So, of course I signed up to go! The guy that was helping me is a professional surf instructor, but he was volunteering that day because he’s a member of the church. He asked me, have you ever surf? No. snowboarded? No. skateboarded? No. haha Well okay! He was such a good instructor, He told me exactly when to start paddling and would give me the initial push onto the wave. Then he would yell, “stand up!” I got up on the first try!!! It was so cool. I went 3 or 4 more times, riding the waves all the way to shore. Then it was someone else’s turn. I couldn’t have gone much longer anyway; it was such a workout paddle out against the waves!!! My arms are so sore today.

Thanks for staying involved in my life, please continue to pray and check my blog!