1 Week

With one week remaining in my homeland of The United States of America, I took a look back on my life and see what I have accomplished. I have a college degree, I preached a set of meetings in Africa, I have worked for the National Park Service and I have been baptized.  Those are my greatest accomplishments, this next experience that I will be partaking of will extend the list of my lifelong accomplishments.  But as I consider my accomplishments, its hard for me to be boastful of them, and its also hard for me to long for selfish desires.  I do not, I repeat, do not care to make tons of money in this world. I do not long to work in a high up position, or become the boss.  I simply want to do God's will, if he wants me to clean toilets the rest of my life because he thinks it will make me happy I will do that, although I really hope he doesn't want that. This journey to Africa is going to be the most challenging thing that I have ever done.  Leaving my loved ones is the hardest thing I will ever do.  It is not a natural thing to live without your loved ones, it is very difficult, thats why this journey is only for a short time.  The Irony of living away from you loved ones is that if you do you are either very stupid or very noble.  It has appeared for awhile that I will fit into the stupid bracket, but after analyzing the situation for awhile I now understand that this opportunity is a gift, and if it was any other experience than this one it would be stupid for me to leave.  Of course now it would be stupid if I stayed, this experience is going to bring me so much joy, mission, purpose and fulfillment in my life. With God, it seems like the more you sacrifice the more you will be blessed, and I think that will be the situation here. I am risking a lot, but God is going to reward a lot.