Author: Adventures

Today, while family an friends are celebrating our freedom as a nation, I am receiving freedom from the Lord thousands of miles away from home. Today the Lord healed me and showed me how strong He is in my weakness. The past month I have dealt with an agonizing abscess in my mouth from a much needed root canal. As we traveled from Uganda to Kenya, the infection only continued to get worse. Last Friday I threw my hands up- I was broken, confused and could not understand why the Lord brought me to east Africa, just to bring me to my weakest point. That night I was done. I was over Uganda,...

so a question someone might ask is “what is it like to be a missionary?”, let me tell how i’ve seen it. To be honest, sometimes it’s absolutely awful. Sometimes you feel alone. I have great family here, but they’re just not the same as friends from home. Sometimes i get frustrated when i’m trying to tell something to the locals and they just don’t understand because our cultures are so different. Sometimes i get sick, like when you eat a fried egg and then find out that it has been sitting out for 5 days before it was cooked. Sometimes i have a...

My Dad wrote me a letter before my trip for me to read on the plane.  Little did I know, his wisdom has turned out to be one of the greatest lessons I have learned on this trip:  “Remember that to feed a hungry person or give water to a thirsty person, to clothe a naked person or give shelter to a homeless person-only to have them die and go to a Christ-less eternity-is ultimately tragic.  Do what you can to meet their practical needs, but it is most important that they see Jesus in all that you do and say-so they might have an opportunity to respond to the...