as many of u know i went to mexico on a missions trip a couple weeks ago. looking back on it now, it was definitely a life-changing trip. God is so good. ahhh i don't know where to start :O i'll make it like a journal sorta..just going through each day :)
Sunday. August 2nd.
this day started early. i went out to coffee at 7 am with one of my bestest friends marianne!(: we were kinda catching up on life and stuff, and she was telling me about how she was gonna pray for me this whole week. she gave me a tiny little journal and wrote me the sweetest, most encouraging note ever in it! the rest she said, was for me to journal some things about my trip.. 'so i can remember' :)
then i went to church. we loaded the van and stuff and went to the 9 o'clock service. after the worship we went up to the front of the church so they could pray for us. it was so cool haha. it gave everyone a sense of peace to know there was a lot of prayer going into our trip.
after this service we went to go play handball outside. it was quite fun i must say. then we stayed for the 11 o'clock service and they prayed for us again.
and then we left. :)
we went to in-n-out for lunch. our last american food for a week. me and candida just go water with lemon in it. haha. omg i'm being too specific about things that really don't matter.. bare with me here. lol.
we were on our way to mexico finally! i was sitting next to this amazing girl named bethany grace reinbolt. no seriously, she's awesome :) and behind us were candida, sam, and emily. let's just say it was the sweetest combination of people because we played road trip games the whole way there! it was so fun!
we finally got to our dorm and we went upstairs. when i first walked into the girls' room i gasped. literally. the room was like 110 degrees and there was no air conditioning only fans, and there was like 500 bunk beds.. or like 20.. and they were 3 bed bunkbeds, not 2. HELP!!?? i flipped out. i did not even think i'd make it all week. i panicked, and i wanted to go home. we went downstairs to load the truck for out 1st build day. while we were loading i remember thinking, i'm hot, and im hungry, and im tired, and i DONT wanna be doing this right now. it was just complaint after complaint(in my head).
we went to this really good taco place to eat. it was pretty awesome. i still had a pretty negative attitude.
another thing was that when i went to mexico in april, by the first few hours i met the canadian team.. we all CLICKED. everyone fit in perfectly. there was unity. this team however, was not unified at ALL. i had done it. i set expectations..and it failed. that's another thing that was weighing me down.
so that night we had free time, then devo time at 10. i just didn't wanna talk to anyone i wanted to sleep so i just went to my bed and laid there. i remember thinking "i hope im not making this obvious".. and knowing myself, i really wasnt. i hadn't physically VOICED any complaints all day. it was all in my head. so im journaling and writing about how NOT excited for this week i was and stuff and how i hated it so far, and how i didn't even feel close to ANYONE on the trip. now, one of my closest friends karina was there, but we weren't on great terms that day.. and my leader bethany was there, we're suuuper close. so im sitting there journaling about how i didn't wanna bug her or ruin this night for her.. and right when i was writing that.. she comes up to me and gives me a folded note. i open it and it says: "I love you, and so does Jesus, the Creator of the Universe!:) -Love Bethy-Love" ... UMM! what?! HI GOD! Hahaha! It was crazy timing. Then i read back on what i had written about my day so far.. and i realized it was very "me" centered. i just wanted to be comfortable. i didn't wanna step out of my zone. i didn't like that the team wasn't unified. i didn't like a lot of things. but that was the wrong kinda mindset. right then the first thing i learned was that this trip was NOT about me..but about God.
okaaaay. so i changed my mind i cant write it all tonight. it took about half an hour to write about day 1 out of like 6 days. so this is officially part 1 :) stay tuned for more!!
God Bless,
-moni-q
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