It's 1 a.m. and although I'm tired as heck, I still end up tossing and turning on the sofa not being able to sleep. Each night since the end of the summer camp at our school has ended up with me waking up at least 3 times, and me having trouble sleeping. It's really quite annoying.
Tonight instead of trying to fight this feeling I'm going to just use this opportunity to share with each of you part of my experience of this year's trip.
This year was a lot more different than the past two years that I've went. Different province, different schools, different people, different CCVs, different kids, different everything. I was worried about how things would turn out, it seemed like all of these things would just hinder our ability to spread the gospel.
The first week was somewhat horrendous, I was busy out of my mind and entropy was obviously taking it's course through our team. It took a much needed talk about how we need to be a family for the next 3 weeks if we want to do this for the kids and do it right. The first week passed by in slow motion, the one week dragged on to seem like a month.
The second week was a lot better, I was able to spend more time with the kids and less with logistics. By then, I still had all the burden of leadership on my back that didn't allow me to do as much with the kids as I would have liked. This second week I was able to coach a basketball team, and bond a lot with some kids from one of my classes. The second week passed by really quickly. And after a couple much needed talks about how I need to spread out my responsibilities to my Vice Principals, I decided to do just that.
The third week passed by too quickly. There were many opportunities for ministry and evangelizing, and praise the Lord so many souls were saved in the last week. And bonding with these kids, I was able to become more than just their English teacher, but their friend.
There is so much that happened in between, but if I were to write everything, you would be reading for hours on end.
To sum it up: This year was probably the most amazing year that I've had serving in Thanksgiving Action. This year, on my way back I've had to fight tears more than any other time. This year, I've had to learn the importance of unity and love. This year, I realize how desperate people are for Love.
I wasn't sure about saying this before, but I'm going back to China next year. During our last teachers meeting, God placed on my heart the same burden that I would be going back.
If you want to know more details, then come and ask me :) Let's hang out. I've missed you guys and gals.
Praise the Lord for an awesome missions trip.
God is good.
