"Day 3"

Although I am back now, I am going to update each day of the mission with a new post instead of one giant post. way too much to read. Also days 1 and 2 were spent traveling and I kinda touched base on it in the last post. so here we go.

It’s really exciting to be in Africa! The full experience has been setting in since this morning and it is wonderful. I could easily come back! Just finished taking off on the flight to Kigali. We are supposed to be careful about telling people what we will be doing in Congo which is kind of a bummer but I understand it is for safety purposes. The sky and clouds are extremely beautiful, especially when you can see the city below. When we flew from Raleigh, we me some students with campus crusade going to Beijing. I have no clue what God has in store for us once we get to Bukavu, but we will find out when it happens. It will be tomorrow morning when we cross the border, hopefully.

On the flight to Kigali I met a pastor from Australia named Brian. He was going to Uganda to teach pastors there the same thing we are trying to teach here in Congo. His son was born the same day I was. I thought that was pretty incredible.

Rwanda was so beautiful it was overwhelming. The travel throught was a long six hours and parts were unexpected. We had some youth come up to our van when we were stopped. I managed to tell one of them I didn’t speak Swahili, he told me he didn’t speak English, we both laughed.

We are at the border staying the night now and we have to cut all of our original plans of teaching times in half. FLEXIBILE! Finding bugs in my bed wasn’t fun but at least it’s a bed. I am starting to realize how easy it can be in the states. I will be using bottled water to brush my teeth all week as well as to drink. These are going to be very long days. God is really working us.

God really wants me to surrender everything to Him. I am trying to reverse my fight mode that accumulated from traveling.