Hey everyone! Man I know its been a while! I actually got to go home to Memphis last week! It was so awesome to be able to see my family and my friends...I missed everyone so much!! I was there for a week but it only felt like a day. I really was dreading coming back and I started feeling really down on Sunday. I had some of my friends come over and they hung out and prayed with me before they left. It meant so much to me to have them there knowing there supporting me and praying for me. Later that day my plane left around 6:30 and my seat was broken so they put me in first class and I was pretty excited about it! This past week has been hard getting back in the the scheme of things. I had a lot of homework due and very thankful I got it all done. This past weekend was insane! we had our first part of GPS/Transportation training. We started off on Friday night by evangelizing down in Westport. around 11:00 they took us and dropped us off at the airport where we had to spend the night on the floor. Meanwhile on the drive to the airport I was sitting next to 2 Fusion guys wrestling and I was elbowed in the eye. Thanks to that event I now have a huge black eye. Although I do believe it did help us the next day. So anyways back to my training. We get about 2 hours of sleep and that's due to the yelling workers, the little carts that kept going up and down the hallways, announcements and the fact that we slept on the hard floor with no pillow. We get up at 5:30 and start the training we caught a bus to downtown and that's the starting point to our all day journey. We were given a GPS and a sheet full of #'s. they were actually points that we had to enter into the GPS and follow the GPS to where ever it lead us. Unfortunately we had a few wrong points and ended up in someones back yard and the middle of a street a couple times. We walked for miles and caught a bus. This whole training took us about 15 hours. We were only half way through the points to. But Russ said that we should head home since it was getting late and it was just us girls in a group and we were in the ghetto. Which comes to why my huge awesome black eye helps the whole situation of being in the ghetto. One look at me and my eye no one messed with us!! It was awesome! Still when it came to the end of the day there was no doubt we were all exhausted and way over tired! All of our feet were hurting so badly and we hadn't showered...unfortunately airports don't offer full bathrooms. Yesterday we went to church and afterwards I got to take my 2 favorite kids in the world Bahati & Nahimana out for the day. Me and my friend Erik whos in Fusion and hangs out with them kids also took them out to lunch at a Mexican restaurant. They were a little confused and asked if everyone there was from Mexico. After we got done and left Nahimana was very worried because we didn't clean up the table. I explained to her though that we pay those people to. We then went back to Erik house and hung out there and watch Finding Nemo. I'm not gonna lie I think I was more excited about watching it then they were. Afterwards we got to play a little soccer and Nahimana was in love with Eriks dog. We took them home later that night. We had a great day with them and I know they enjoyed it. It was really interesting and sad to see how they reacted to all the stuff. They couldn't believe Erik had a computer in his house, and were amazed by how big the TV is. So many of these things we don't think about but when we are with people who haven't been Americanized and cheated into thinking that everyone should have lots of expensive stuff you realize how we become numb to what we have and our never satisfied. I think they are the lucky ones. Over all though Yesterday was such an awesome day and it was so nice to be at Eriks house and meet his family and be able to be somewhere other then camp and campus. It was nice being in a house too. Kinda felt like I was home. So for this weekend begins part II of the training. We will be leaving Thursday or Wednesday, they wont tell us for sure yet, but we will be walking to the airport 22 miles away and from there we will be doing the GPS throughout the country. We will be given tickets and not know where we are going till were on our way there. were not gonna have a lot of stuff and not anywhere to sleep except the airport and when it comes to showers...well...I think it doesn't. We also will be living homeless for at least a day and night. We don't know which city yet but Scott said it was a dangerous city and I'm kinda hoping Memphis since it does have the highest crime rate. I figure I could just beg for money or sing for money then use that for a pay phone to call friends in Memphis to come help me out. This whole training wont be done till Tuesday. So its gonna be very crazy and exhausting. After being extremely tired after just this weekend I'm kinda scared for the next part. I definitely ask you will pray for me throughout all of this. From here on out I know we will be doing training nearly every weekend. So its gonna be pretty intense these next few months. just remember me in your prayers. That the only thing I need through out this. Well I'm gonna go due some homework and then go up to CBC to see my kids. Thanks everyone again for the prayers I love you all and miss you all!
God Bless!!
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