j bay!

our next & last country, south africa!

we have been so blessed to be able to be in jeffery’s bay, south africa! i love everything about this place & it’s a sweet taste of back home too. there are so many things i love about this place and so many opportunities to share the love of Jesus. we got here a-little over a week ago and time has flown by already.

since switching into our new teams, we’ve been able to get our new ministry assignments, spend some sweet time together & get to know each other even more. i love everything about my team and the diversity of our minds. we get the privilege of serving at a ministry called “beats & books”, it’s an after school program for kids where we get to tutor them in academics and they get music lessons as well. i haven’t had the chance to go yet because this is my week to stay back and help our house mom, wendy, with cooking, cleaning and whatever she needs. all of the girls rotate this shift and it gives us the opportunity to hang out with wendy and get to know her better, which is such a blessing. i also got to serve at the local schools coffee shop, which was so interesting when trying to use the register in their currency which is rand. it took me a fee days but i finally understood it better on the last day i served there haha. i got to work alongside “beauty” who is the lady in charge, she’s so kind and we had so many fruitful conversations! i got back and visit her when i can.

this city is filled with so much stuff to do! we went surfing this past week & as fun as it was, the waves took me out for sure, but we’ll definitely be going back. on my sabbath, some friends and i went to the beach and enjoyed our day off. we have so many different opportunities like bungee jumping, zip lining, a water park & so many other things that we’re excited to do as a team.

while things have been nothing but great, emotionally it’s been harder than the past few months. i think we’ve just finally hit that point where we’ve been away from home for so long and we can all annoy each other that we’ve been prioritizing alone time when we can. ive found myself getting irritated and snappy & i’ve had to take a step back and breathe. i then also realized, i give the enemy way too much credit when im dealing with heavy emotions. when i started feeling this way, i knew i needed to spend more time with Jesus and just really ask Him to reveal what i need to do to get my emotions back in line. as soon as i got back onto a better schedule, i started feeling better. i didnt let the enemy creep back in with the same old thoughts he tries to use to ruin my day. i reminded myself with truth and The Word.

if you feel led to pray for me, please just pray for patience and fruitfulness. i miss you guys so much and also i just think you should know, since being on this trip i have had 53 peanut & jelly sandwiches. crazy right! but i will be eating these at home now to save money, i forgot how much i loved them.