Hello everyone!! This isn't an official update, but given the fact that i'm leaving to come home today, I figured it would be a good opportunity to tell you what i've thought of the last four months. I write this while i'm in the Cebu Airport, waiting for the airlines to open so I can get my ticket. They want international travelers at the airport four hours before their flight is supposed to leave, but that doesn't help when the airlines themselves aren't open.
Anywho, the last four months have absolutely flown by! It feels like just yesterday that I was stepping out of the airport and meeting up with Angela. They say, “Time flies when you're having fun”, and they are absolutely correct. Sure there were a few rough periods while i've been here, but that's to be expected on any mission trip.
Before coming here, I was told multiple times that I was a natural leader. I even did a leadership based DTS (Discipleship Training School) without realizing it till I got there. I did not want to accept the fact that I was a leader. No matter what people told me, or how many times they told me that I was a leader, I denied it. I didn't see myself as a leader what so ever. Well, while i've been here interning at the children's home, I finally accepted the fact that whether I like it or not, I AM in fact a leader, and I need to embrace that. To say that this was an awesome experience would be an understatement. I knew coming into this, God was going to reveal something about me to me, I just had no idea what that was. But now that I do, I'm surprisingly okay with that. In about three weeks, I'll be moving out to Smithtown, New York to go on staff at YWAM Metro New York. While i'm super excited to go out there and be apart of what they are doing, it also terrifies me at the same time, mainly because I have no idea what to expect, and it's a first for me. Having a legit job. It's all uncharted territory for me. But I think it's safe to assume that being terrified comes with going into the uncharted right?
Last night Angela and Janet stopped by the house to say goodbye to the kids and the staff. After the kids were done saying goodbye to them, they started to say goodbye to me. I told them I wasn't leaving yet, and they went back to what they were doing. This morning, when they were all getting ready for school, I was hanging around so that I could say goodbye to them as they walked out the front gate. The first two kids walked out with saying goodbye to me lol. We had the youngest kid run and call them back so I could say goodbye to them. Since then, one of the staff reminded all the kids to say goodbye to me as they walked out the gate. I just found it funny that last night they couldn't wait to say goodbye to me, but this morning they totally forgot. Saying goodbye to the kids was a lot easier then I thought it was going to be. I think that's mainly because the kids didn't really make a big deal out of it. If they had made a bigger deal, I think it would have been hard, not to mention that I didn't say goodbye to them as a group, but individually as they left for school.
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