Posted in General Posts by Suzanne Hofer on 5/19/2012
I am loving the people here in Cambodia! This morning I woke up in such a great mood. Last night, we had an English class that went really well and we had so much fun. Afterwards, one of the students invited us out to one of the local night markets, which was also extremely fun. It was a great night. The people here are so incredible and I am loving getting to know these students!
We have been in Cambodia for about 2 weeks now. The first week we spent on debrief in Siem Reap, which was some much needed rest and recuperation after our time in Thailand. It was a great week and we had the chance to visit Angkor Wat, one of the seven man-made wonders of the world!
At Angkor Wat with my squadmates Nicole, Kathryn, and Bethany.
The rest of our time here in Cambodia will be spent teaching English at a local church and helping with their youth group. So far I am loving it. These students are SO eager to learn and have such a fun spirit about them.
Here are 5 of the students in our class. There are about 40-60 students that regularly attend these English classes, Monday through Friday. I have been leading the level 1 English class and have been assisting in the other classes throughout the night.
Two more of our students who also are very active in the youth program. These girls are so much fun! I would love to tell you their names, but I am still trying to figure out how to pronounce them!!!
With my teammates Leslie and Trena and our student Lovely.
Right now, I simply feel at peace. Complete peace. This is where I am supposed to be right now, I know this. This is where God has me and this is what God wants me to be doing at this point in my life. This morning in the book 'Jesus Calling' I read this: "I want you to know how safe and secure you are in My Presence. That is a fact, totally independent of your feelings." and then in Psalms 29:11, "The Lord gives strength to His people; the Lord blesses His people with peace."
This is what I am feeling right now. It might not be what I felt yesterday, or this afternoon, or tomorrow, or even 10 minutes from now, but this is what I am feeling right now. Peace. And it feels great.
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Posted in General Posts by Suzanne Hofer on 5/12/2012
I loved Thailand.
I think that I have written and said that millions of times, but it is true. So far, Thailand has been my favorite month on this trip. I love this country. I love most things about it. I loved the ministry we were able to be a part of while we were there. I hope to go back to this country again some day and maybe visit some of the friends we made in these bars. I loved these people we get to call friends. I loved when they were excited to see me and sad to see me go. I love that in such a short amount of time, they impacted my life greatly and hopefully I impacted there lives as well.
This month was full of emotion. Different emotions than I was expecting and some that I haven't even sorted through yet. I am so thankful that I was able to be a part of this incredible ministry. Here are a few pictures from my month in Thailand.
We will call him "Sally." Sally was one of my favorite people we met in the bars. We spent most of our time with him. Sally is a ladyboy. (For those of you who don't know what a ladyboy is, a ladyboy is a man who identifies as a woman.) He worked at one of the ladyboy bars in the red light district. He was so nice and so funny. We were able to spend several afternoons with him outside of the bars either eating pizza, shopping, or getting some ice cream. One of my favorite times with Sally was when he said to us, "i know, I know, I believe you, I know." Which what he meant by that in his broken english was, "i know I can trust you, I know we are friends."
Sally and I singing together, just for fun. 
My teammates, Trena and Anjali and I with "Mary", the owner of the bar where Sally worked. He is very intimidating and at first we thought he hated us because of how much time we were spending with Sally, but we eventually made friends with him too!
Holding the snake that "Mary" owned. This snake was in the bar everyday! And yes, it is as creepy as it looks!
We loved "Jenny". She is one of the girls that works in the red light district. Almost every time we went to visit her, she had a customer already or we would get interrupted because a customer would come in. One night after we had to leave because she had to go be with a customer, I completely lost it. I couldn't handle it anymore. I am crying right now just writing about it. It is so sad, so heartbreaking. We loved her as best we could, and I know she could feel it. She was so sweet, so kind.
Our friend "Amy". She was a bundle of life, so energetic, so adorable. She is the girl I told you about whose mother owns the bar she works at. She was so excited everytime we came to say hello and hang out for a while with them.
This little girl might be my favorite. "Marcy" and her aunt both sell flowers in the bars. One of the first nights we were there, we had about 10 people gathered at our table, half of them being little kids playing connect four with us. (There are connect four games at almost every bar.) These two were at that table with us and I loved her. One of my favorite days at the bar was when, out of nowhere, Marcy came running up to me and gave me a huge hug. It made me so happy to know that she knew how much I cared about her. After that, everytime she saw me she would run and give me a huge hug.
Playing connect four with Marcy & several other children in the bars.
Now on to some fun activities on our off days:
My teammates Lydia, Leslie, and I took a Thai food cooking class on an organic farm. It was so much fun!
Chicken Curry and Cashew Chicken. I made these amazing dishes!
Riding elephants. Yes, my wish did come true. The man even let me ride up front on the elephants head!
Thank-you so much for all of your prayers. Please pray especially for "Sally", "Amy", "Jenny", "Marcy" and her aunt, and "Mary". Please pray for then to be able to leave the bars and find a job elsewhere. Please pray that more Christians will come and seek out friendships with these girls and men. Please pray that they would feel the love of Jesus and want to know more about him.
A huge praise: while we were there, one of my teammates was able to pray with one of the women in the bars and she received Christ! Amazing. The story is incredible. Please pray that this girl is able to leave the bars as well. The organization we worked with has a change program to help the girls and men leave the life of prostitution and learn skills to find a job elsewhere. Please pray that this woman is able to find new work and grow in her walk with the Lord.
Thank-you so much! A quick financial update. Right now, I need approximately $1,600 to be fully funded! Amazing! Thank-you so much for all of your gifts! My deadline to meet this goal is July 1st. Please pray that the needed funds come in. Thank-you!
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Posted in General Posts by Suzanne Hofer on 4/24/2012
Here is a journal entry I wrote my first week here in Chiang Mai, Thailand:
How do you tell about this? How do you explain?
Do you tell about the pained look you see in someone’s eyes?
Do you talk about the old white man you see with the teenager Thai girl?
Do you mention the girl constantly, seductively calling, luring the college-aged boy over to her, only so that later that night he will take her home. She will get paid.
Do you tell about the conversation with the girls at the bar that had to end abruptly because one of her regulars had come. She had to go to him and you had to watch.
Do you tell about the girl at the bar, being completely used, bought by a western man right in front of her mother’s eyes. Her mother owns this bar and she watches her daughter do this everyday. She chooses this for her daughter. Only, she probably doesn’t feel like she has a choice.
Do you tell about all the little children running around, trying to sell flowers in these bars. Not fazed one bit by all the disgusting things going on around them. It’s normal. This is their normal life. This could soon become them, if it isn’t already.
Do you mention the bar where you know you need to go in to talk to these girls, but there’s never been a possibility because every time you go by, they have customers in there, all over them. Getting violated. Getting used. Every. Single. Day. This is their life. This is their normal.
And the ladyboys. Do you talk about the ladyboys, the ones who have stolen my heart. Who are living as someone they are not. They are men. They are men, but somehow they have transformed themselves to be somebody else and now sell themselves too. They have no choice. They have to provide for their families. This is how they feel. This is their reality.
And these men. These customers. Do you share about the old men, the college-aged men, men from all over the world coming in to use these women, these men. The purpose of their trip is self-satisfaction, to use these women, these ladyboys, these kids. And they don’t care. They are in pain too, so much so that they don’t care that these women, these men, these kids hate their jobs. It doesn’t matter to them, even if they know.
Well, yes, apparently I do mention all of these things and right now this is my life. These people. These friends. I get to love them. I get to smile at them. I get to hug them. I get to laugh with them. I get to see their lives, their hurts, their pain, and love them. I get to share a little bit of Jesus with them. Show them they aren’t forgotten. They are loved.
The girls, the children, the ladyboys: these people are easy for me to love. I do. I love them.
The bar owners, the customers, these men: Love them. Really? They are the ones hurting these girls, these ladyboys, these children. Really LOVE them?
God does.
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Posted in General Posts by Suzanne Hofer on 4/14/2012
I LOVE it here! We have been in Thailand for about a week now, and I am absolutely loving it! Here are just a few of the reasons I love this country:
1) Pad Thai – absolutely love it as well as all the other interesting foods we have here. It is also VERY cheap! Usually less than $1.50 will get you a great plate of food at a restaurant!
2) Longan & Rambutan – two of my favorite fruits! I fell in love with longan when I lived in Taiwan. They are SOO good!!
3) Songkran – a holiday that is going on right now in Thailand. For approximately a week, they have a country-wide water fight. And when I say water fight, I definitely mean full out war. You can’t really leave the house without being entirely drenched from head to toe. Water guns, buckets, barrels, hoses, ice cold water, dirty moat water: you name it, they use it! I definitely had to join the fight and purchase a water gun.
Songkran in Chiang Mai with my teammates Anjali and Trena. So much fun!
4) The elephant rides – well, I haven’t actually done this yet, but it is definitely on my list!
5) The shopping – well, if you know me at all, you know that I don’t really like to shop. BUT it is true, they do have great shopping
6) Thai tea, green milk tea, and all the other drinks they have here -- SO incredibly good!!
7) The people – yesterday, during the water fight, we met so many great people. We are hoping to meet up with one of the girls we met later tonight.
8) The ministry – it is incredible. Much more sobering than the rest of this blog has been so I will write more on this another time. Working in the red light district, being Jesus and befriending the prostitutes, the customers, the children in the bars, that is our main ministry. So, you can imagine the heaviness that is involved with this.
I do love it here, even as heavy as all of that is. Thank-you for helping me be involved in a ministry like this. My heart breaks for these girls, these children, these men. It is hard to process it all. Here is my request. I go out to the bars on Monday and Wednesday evenings from 8-10:30pm as well as Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from 3-5:30pm for the next 2 1/2 weeks. We spend time in the bars, talking, making friends, setting up other times to hang out with these girls. Considering the time change, if you could especially pray for my team and I during those hours, it would be greatly appreciated!
Thank-you and much love to you!
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Posted in General Posts by Suzanne Hofer on 3/28/2012
My time in Nicaragua is flying. It is already our last week here. On April 5th, we fly to Thailand!
We have been involved in various things in the community here. Some of which are: visiting hospitals, schools, nursing homes, churches, an orphanage for mentally challenged children, and painting the house of the pastor we work with here in Jinotepe, Nicaragua. I really enjoyed the orphanage so much and am so glad we get to go back another time this week!
BUT my absolutely favorite thing that I had the opportunity to help out with this month was a health clinic. A group from the United States was here having health clinics in some small, poor communities around Jinotepe. Our group of seven went to help out in any way we could. There were so many people there needing medical care. They ended up needing me to run the vision station by myself. It was incredible! It was SO MUCH FUN!! I was able to test everyone’s eye sight and if they needed glasses, I helped them pick out the right pair. I LOVED seeing their faces when they were able to see clearly for the first time. LOVED it. Absolutely loved it! There were people of all ages at this clinic. I was able to do some translating for one of the American nurses. IT WAS SO MUCH FUN! I am really hoping that I will get to help out in a health clinic again at some point on this trip.
Here are a few pictures to show our time here in Nicaragua:
This is the health clinic I got to be a part of at the church in the small community in which we work.
Three sisters at the church we help out with in this community. So Sweet!!
Gretna, one of the girls at this church that we have ALL fallen in love with. She was so shy and quiet when we first met her, and now she is so energetic!!
Buying bananas from the banana man! 91 bananas for less than $2!!
Painting Pastor Manuel's house as a gift to him. He is the man we have been working with the entire month.
Casa Mateo. This is the hotel we are staying at and the ministry we are working with.
Visiting Mustard Seed, the orphanage for mentally challenged children. This girl was one of my favorites, but I never could understand what her name was. We walked around, laughed, danced, and here, taking a mini-nap.
On one of our days off, we were able to go to Mambacho Volcano, hike around it, and zipline in the area. Here is a view overlooking the volcano and Lake Nicaragua.
Hiking at Mambacho Volcano. So beautiful!!
We fly to Thailand on April 5th. Please pray for safety in travel. We have approximately 60 hours of travel time! It might get a little long. I remember traveling for 24 hours when I went to Taiwan 10 years ago and I am pretty sure the man sitting next to me on the plane was irritated after hour #3 when I kept disturbing him so I could get up and walk around on the plane—and that was only 24 hrs, let alone 60!
Please pray for God to continue working in me. There was a point here in Nicaragua that I did NOT want to be here, at all. I was easily irritated, annoyed at everything and everyone, so skeptical of my teammates, and feeling trapped. I miss my friends. I miss them so much. I voiced this all to my teammates and they were so great about it. They prayed for me. They listened. They shared some of their struggles. It was great. The next day I woke up and felt so much better. Nothing had changed except that I had voiced it. They cared. I had a new perspective. God was working in my heart, and still is. I want to be open to anything and everything He has for me. I want to fully give my life to God, every piece of it, and trust Him with it. I want to have peace in knowing that HIS way is the BEST way. I am still working on that.
Thank-you for all of your continued encouragement! I am so excited for this next leg of the trip! And for those of you that have been asking, I only need $2,176.15 to be fully funded! Thank-you!
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Posted in General Posts by Suzanne Hofer on 3/13/2012
Life in Honduras: My words can do no justice. I don't even know where to start describing all that God is doing there. Everything that we got to be a part of. How amazing I think Tony, Nidia, and their ministry, Zion's Gate, is. How incredible to see the boys that live with Tony trying to change their lives around. It was incredible. So many people from our squad want to return some day to Honduras. Amazing. So, I am just going to share some photos. Many I will share and many I wish I could share but I do not have the patience to wait for the rest to upload
This was our sleeping arrangements for the month in Honduras. Thank-you Mark and Sara for my tent!!!
Mario, Carlos, and Fernando. Mario is a boy that lives in the neighborhood but spends most of his time at Zion's Gate, Tony & Nidia's place. He is 14 and decided he wanted to start going to school again while we were there. We had the great opportunity to see him start his 1st week of school. He is 14 and is starting the first grade. Carlos and Fernando are brothers and live with Tony. Their mom lives behind a dumpster. They have been living at Zion's Gate about 4-6 mos. Super hyper boys They have a private teacher at Zion's Gate. Their older brother Christopher, also started school again while we were there. These two boys have been and are making amazing changes in their lives. Fernando was the boy who is trying to start selling cookies
Painting Herman's mother's house. Herman lives with Tony and about 6 months ago he was supposed to be killed any day. About two months ago, one of his close friends was stoned to death. He is also in the process of live transformation. He is seeking after the Lord. He is going to school. He is trying to change his life and I believe he will impact SO many in the process.
A group of us while painting Herman's house. Herman is in the orange. Tony is the man next to me. Arielle, in the pink is another boy who lives with Tony. PLEASE keep him and his sister Dania and brother Ronnie in your prayers. I just found out this morning that their father killed himself this week.
Jersey sorting for the soccer ministry Pastor Armando is doing. He reaches out to communities and starts soccer teams to help the youth. To play on a team, the players must be a part of a Bible Study. He works in very poor, drug filled, gang filled communities. If you are interested in a little of his testimony, read my teammate, Tabby's blog: http://tabbyhubbard.theworldrace.org/?filename=the-tale-of-the-40-thieves The story is amazing!!
My team having some fun sorting jerseys
We spent a lot of time on the property at Zion's Gate doing landscaping, painting, and other projects. I got to be a big part of putting in flower beds. It was fun, hard, and so rewarding!
Two of the boys at INFA that we visited on Fridays. I want to take these two boys home with me INFA is the jail-type place where street kids get taken. Police go around and pick up kids off the street and they have to stay here for a set amount of time. I am not sure how long these two have been there or what their story is, but I continue to think of them often.
Some of the kids in one of the soccer communities where Pastor Armando helps out.
Some more kids in another community where Pastor Armando works. I spent part of the day playing basketball with these kids
Our next country: Nicaragua!
Right now our squad in on debrief in Granada, Nicaragua. It has been great being here and relaxing a little bit. Tomorrow we head to our next ministry site in Nicaragua. The place we are going is called Casa Mateo but I don't know too much else about it yet.
**Please pray for our team of seven. This will be the first time we will be just us seven for ministry. Please pray for unity, understanding, and grace.
Thank-you so much:):)
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Posted in General Posts by Suzanne Hofer on 2/22/2012
Honduras! So much is happening here! I don’t have photos yet, so I’ll just give you an update of what we have been doing and will be doing this month.
it is really great here in Honduras--Tony and Nidia our hosts are so incredible.
**Tony has gotten involved in this community here called LOS PINOS. It is a really poor, gang filled, drug filled, dangerous area of town. He just made his presence there, being loving to the street kids. I think he started getting involved with them about 5 yrs ago or less and right now he has 5-6 street kids that now live with him and many others that just come to the property to hang out. They still have their problems, but he doesn't care. They are making progress and he is loving them and sharing Jesus with them by loving them and that is what matters. These are the kids we interact with daily. Some are super loving, others are crazy and hyper, others are quiet, others are a little violent. One boy, Fernando, who has some anger issues, just had a bake sale for us on Monday! So freaking adorable! Tony is helping him start a baking business. He is 11 or 12 years old. We were his first paying customers!!:) And I will add that the cookies were AMAZING!!
**Our ministry will be different every week. The property where Tony and Nidia live and where we are staying needs a lot of work. This week in the mornings, we have been doing landscaping and digging a trench for a pipe on the property --right up my ally--I am kind of in charge of the landscaping part. We are hoping to have a little flower bed in by the time we leave so that it will give a vision for what the rest of the property could look like. It has been fun!
**In the afternoons, some of us have been going with a different pastor to help sort soccer jerseys. His outreach is to kids in poor, drug filled, dangerous communities. He lets them play in the soccer league if they are part of a Bible Study. This is a great way to share Jesus with these people. It is a huge program here in Honduras and in other countries as well. We have been sorting the jerseys to give out to the players. They have a billon-ish jerseys in their church office that a company in the US donated to them.
**Next week we will still be doing some work on the property and we will also be going into the LOS PINOS community. We are going to fix up the mothe’rs house of one of the boys, Herman, that lives with Tony. We are building support beams, painting, and building an outhouse. I am so excited to do this project. Herman has shared a little of his story with us and it is SO amazing what God is in the process of bringing him out of.
**The final week we are here, the plan is to visit people in hospitals and orphanages, but plans could change, so we will see!
**Fridays are pretty awesome here. We go to this place called INFA. INFA is sort of like jail. The police go around in communities and take street kids and bring them here for anywhere from 1-6 months. There are kids there anywhere from 2 months old to teenagers. The government has invited Tony to come in every Friday and hang out with these kids. This past Friday was the first time he was invited to go and we got to go too. We sang, danced, played games, made bracelets, colored, shared Jesus, and just hung out with them all afternoon. It is so sad. Some kids just got picked up by the police and others, their parents turned them in. We had no idea what they were going to be like but they all seemed pretty glad for us to be there. I spent most of my time playing with a 2 yr old boy and holding a 2 month old baby. Also spent a little bit of time trying to break up some fights, sometimes successful, sometimes not.
Well, that is a bit about life in Honduras. Hope to have some pictures next time! Thank-you for your continuous prayer!!
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Posted in General Posts by Suzanne Hofer on 2/18/2012
(I wrote the first part of this my last day in El Salvador and the second part my first days in Honduras.)
I hate goodbyes. Hate them. I always cry. It makes me so sad and it is especially hard when you know, most likely, you won’t see these people again.
How am I going to do this 10 more times this year? How????
The good thing about goodbyes though, the hard, terrible, makes you want to cry goodbyes, is that it means you are friends. You have made a difference in their lives and they have made a difference in mine. I have friends, great friends in El Salvador. Friends who have invited me for food, asked me to play with them, chased after me, laughed with me, talked with me, cried because I was leaving. Friends. They are beautiful. They are wonderful. I probably won’t see them again in this earthly life, but I SO pray I will see them in heaven. They are so special to me. Two weeks ago I was thinking, “What are we even doing here? Are we even making a difference?” And today, I can’t stop crying because there are so many goodbyes to say to so many wonderful people and I am not the only one crying. I mean something to them and they mean something to me.
I wanted to show you a few pictures of my friends from El Salvador, but our internet time here in Honduras is short and slow so I am not able to upload any photos right now, but here are a few photos that I already had:
The neighbors doing my hair and makeup just for fun!
Our neighbors: Mateo, Jaqueline, and the ever-so-silly Isreal after the completion of my hair and makeup! :)
My teammates and I playing basketball with some of the locals.
One of the schools we visited in Apastepaque.
A sad goodbye to El Salvador, but Hello Honduras! We arrived here safely in El Tizatillo, Tegucigalpa on Saturday, February 11th. Here is a little information about our new country!
HONDURAS!!
"Hondo" comes from the Spanish word for depth and there's lots of depth to Honduras. It's home to the Aztec and Mayan civilizations, whose ruins are still stand. Honduras is mostly mountainous and the weather's as tropical as it gets. What really runs deep in Honduras are its needs. Honduras is the third poorest in the region, after Haiti and Nicaragua. Like her neighbors, Honduras has had her of share political/military troubles, e.g., the six-month constitutional crisis in 2009. There's a need to reach out to the youth, not just to keep them out of trouble (e.g., gangs) but for them to know their worth and that they're loved.
We have met our ministry host, Tony, and he has told us some of what we are going to be doing. We will be working with street kids most of the time, in all sorts of ways. It sounds amazing and I can’t wait to get started! Will definitely share more in another blog. Thank-you for your prayers!
Financial update: Only $3,356.65 to go to reach my July deadline of $15,500!! Thank-you so much to you all for continuing to give!
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Posted in General Posts by Suzanne Hofer on 2/3/2012
Nicole, my friend and teammate, made this video of our time so far in El Salvador! It is a really great video and shows a lot of what we have been doing and the people we have met here in Apastepaque. Hope you enjoy it!!
Here is the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5HEw-YAt8A&feature=share
Quick update:
*you all must be praying because the day of my last blog post was one of the best days here! Thank-you for the prayers!
*Ended up with the stomach flu or food poisoning last week (not sure which:))--but thankful to be over that!!:)
*There is a community we go to here called Brisas that is my favorite (where those 2 adorable girls live). We have gotten to go back there several times and I LOVE it. We play with the kids, talk with the families there, have performed dramas and share Jesus love with them.
*Last night my teammate Chris and I stopped to play basketball with some of the people here in Apastepaque. It was so much fun and I loved getting to know some of the women here. They invited me to practice with them this next week and go to the tournament with them to watch this weekend. So hoping that will work out!
*A couple of days ago 2 of my teammates and I went to talk with our neighbors and ended up getting a makeover from them-hair, makeup, the whole works! It was a lot of fun. We ended up spending the whole day with them.
*Several of these past few days we have been able to go to the schools here in Apastepaque and play with the students, talk with them, and perform dramas. It has been good. At one point though, I thought I might die because a herd of little girls was chasing, choking, and tackling me repeatedly. One of my teammates caught part of it on video so hopefully I'll be able to share that soon:) The children there are SO much fun!:)
*Today, when visiting one of the communities, I was able to hold a baby chick, baby puppy, little bird, and ride a horse bareback. The people here are SO friendly!
*We leave El Salvador and head to Honduras on February 11th!
That's it for now! Hope you enjoy the video!!:) And yes, those are ants carrying a huge chip across the church floor and a scorpion my teammate found in her belongings here!
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Posted in General Posts by Suzanne Hofer on 1/24/2012
Hi all! Just wanted to show some pictures so you can see what life in El Salvador is like so far! Thank-you so much for all of your encouragement, comments, and personal emails. I so appreciate them all!!
Exploring Apastepaque, the town we live in with my teammates Tabby, Nicole, and Ada.
One of our pickup rides. We tend to fit about 20 people in a small pickup most places that we go.
One of the churches we visited in a small community.
One of the houses in one of the small communities we visited. This family has 9 children in this small house.
Myself, Erika, & Catalina making faces after racing on the dirt roads. Possibly my favorite 2 people I have met so far. I LOVE Catalina’s eyes and beautiful smile!!!! I am SO hoping we are returning to visit them again!!!
Jumping photo on the beach with my squad mates on our day off.
And hitch-hiking with the police. Seemed like a good idea
I had several other photos I wanted to add to this but am having a little computer/internet trouble.:( Will try to add more at a different time.:)
A few things we could use prayer on:
1) Team unity—it is a struggle among our group right now. Pray that everyone would all be understanding of each others differences and see the good in each other.
2) About half of our group has been sick this week. I’m not feeling the greatest either. Please pray for health.
3) A woman across the street from us died last night. There will be many friends and family in our area in the next several days. Pray we make a positive impact in their lives.
4) Going to get tortillas from the tortilla lady is my favorite part of the day. She makes them in a house and we buy them every day for lunch. It is so fun to have conversation with her and the others that are there everyday. They are so sweet. I guess this really is a praise.
5) It has not been very busy so far. There has been a lot of down time which is frustrating for several of us. We want to help in anyway we can. Pray that we are patience and that we are looking for opportunities to serve and grow.
This morning it really hit me that even if I only impact one person on this race, this trip, would I still think the trip was worth it? Absolutely. So, even if there is a lot of down time, times of frustration, times of loneliness, there is a reason I am on this trip. A great reason. I want to use every opportunity I have to grow, to be used, and to allow God to work in my life. It's gonna be great:)
Thank-you so much for everything. Much love to you all!
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