This past month the squad has been separated: each team spent two weeks with one of their ministry hosts. While some teams traveled hours and hours away, my team happily drove ten minutes away to a church in Parramos. As we lived in Parramos, we continued with our original ministries (English class, Soccer, and Bookclub) but we got the chance to  participate in the nightly church activities! The growth that I s...

   It’s fun when a place transitions from foreign to familiar. Our squad is finishing out first mont...

 Imagine this: you’re a mile deep into a city you’ve never been to before, lost. You’ve been walking...

So we made it to October! It’s been over a month of living with people who were once strangers, but now family. I’ve learned so much about each of them and also myself through them. The girls of our squad spent the last two weeks in North Carolina partnering with Excel College. This is where all my thoughts about my new people and how to live with them came together.    Excel College is a college different from mo...

Training camp is totally different than my everyday life. For context, we travel back to Yakima, Washington last year. Julia was working at Mod Pizza and spending most of her days home alone as her family went to school and she had online school. Home Alone Julia did not prioritize eating. Eating was an afterthought and could be done after work or school or anything else she could think of. She knew she had to do it,...

Did anyone else know how easy evangelism could be? This week, my group got the chance to leave the base and practice evangelism. To understand all my thoughts we’ll have to go back a tad earlier in the week. Tuesday night for dinner a market was set up. All the mentors and leaders dressed up as merchants, beggars, visiting Americans, or just drove through honking their car horns. When I walked into that, I was exc...

Okay, so God is pretty cool. I don’t know how it happened but it’s almost the end of our second week...

Do you believe it? World Race Launch is in six days! On my way to Georgia, for launch, I look a detour to Little Rock, Arkansas! I lived there before Washington, so this week has been filled with seeing old friends and visiting familiar places. It’s only been four days since I left, but I’ve surprisingly learned things I didn’t even think of from the beginning. First, I learned something very important about trave...

  Okay! Before I get into anything, I just want to say that working for God is the best! When you're on his team, you can say you're going to do great things and have them actually come true. Starting any project can be intimidating, but when you're working with/for God you can see miraculous things happen in a short time, which makes every day exciting.   The big question is "why?" Why are you going on the World ...