The past two weeks in Mozambique have been amazing. To be honest I don’t even know what to write about right now because so much has happened and it feels a little overwhelming because I haven’t been able to get on the internet in so long!!
I feel like I have completely died here in Africa. I don’t even know who I used to be because my life has changed so much this summer. It’s a good thing, I think at times when you say “I’ve died” it could be looked on as a negative thing but for me it is positive. My eyes have been opened to so much this summer and I am pretty sure it is going to take me a while to process everything I have learned, everything I have seen and everything I have experienced in the past 3 months.
On Friday I graduated with over 120 people from Iris Harvest School of Missions. 20 nations were represented in the group and some of the most amazing speakers came this summer to share from around the world. This summer was seriously unreal. I lived in a house with 13 people and not once did I ever want to leave. It took me a little while, but I got used to the fact that I couldn’t flush toilet paper down the toilet and the 5 minute cold showers were rough in the beginning but now I don’t even remember what a warm shower feels like haha. I love everything about Africa. The people here have impacted me in ways that I can’t even describe in words. I have six more days left here in Mozambique and when I think about coming home my heart hurts, not because I don’t want to come home but because I don’t want to leave here. More than half of the people in the school left this weekend so its been an emotional beginning to my last week here but I am so looking forward to spending time with the people that are still here and the Mozambicans, ok and I realized that this whole time I have been spelling Mozambicans, Mozambiquens haha so good thing I learned how to spell it correctly my last week here!
Anyways, I know this post is short and I apologize for not being as up to date as I would have liked but it hit me in the last two weeks that I don’t have a lot of time here so I spent most of my free time with others and with the people here and less time in town and on the internet. I will be home next Monday night and to be honest I don’t know what state of mind I will be in. I get culture shock every time I get on facebook so who knows how it will be when I am actually home. I start school on the 29th so the time before that will most likely be spent at home in Naperville/Chicago.
My summer in Mozambique has been life changing and I am so excited to see what my next step is going to be. I have learned so much about who I am and who God is and I wouldn’t have traded this summer for anything. I hope that I will have the opportunity to share with you all more details of my time here, but please give me at least a month haha maybe things will be different when I am actually home but as of right now I feel like I am pressing my feet in the mud trying to make time go by slower here so that I can take everything in. I might be a little bit of a mess at home haha, even thinking about leaving makes me want to cry. I also am super exhausted right now too because I stayed up past 12 with people that left today and woke up this morning around 5 to say my final goodbyes. I am so scatterbrained, I actually feel like my brain is fried haha ok I feel like I need to end this, please forgive me haha. I will have pictures up on facebook in a couple weeks I’m sure. Thank you so much for staying updated on my summer, I haven’t really decided if I am going to blog when I am home… it’s been really fun to keep you all updated while in Africa though. Please let me know if you have any questions about Iris Ministries, it is a wonderful ministry that’s main focus is love, so if you ever want to be apart of something were you truly die to yourself and learn to love like Jesus does, this would be a place for you, haha my summer has been incredible, but I cannot wait to hear about what you all did this summer as well☺
See most of you very soon!!!
Love llove loveeeeee
