wow!! I'm so stoked these past 42 days have been something else. Learning more about myself, God, the people around me and how situations can effect you when you beyond tired. I've really been blessed to be here with all these amazing people. From surviving in the freezing cold nights at our makeshift campsite with a sheltt that didn't even work and our fire being to far away from everything, all the "dear diary" entries made it just all the more funny. My survivor team was the orange team and already in 5days we had made a bond that wasn't broken. I learnt team work is very important and you can't be a one man team otherwise you will get wrecke. Then we got back to jbay and had like an afternoon to chill and we thought the hard stuff was done but nope this week we have to build a lovely road for the school of jbay GLA. That's was definitely a huge task but we all found what we where good at and worked together to make an awesome road. Then we had a chance to build relationships with the children of GLA at their camp over the weekend. We really had a fantastic time there laughing and pball the games. As soon as we got back from the camp we jumped Into the car and headed off to the Transkei to help at Canzibe. We built a fence and helped the orphans and the underprivileged children we played and danced and did lessons with skits for them they really made my heart break, they have so little but their smiles are bigger than anything I e ever seen. We also got an amazing chance to go to the hole in the wall at coffee bay. the last day at the transkei we where told that we are going to do a Luke ten back to jbay in small teams haha wow that was something out of this world my experiences in just those two days of how faith and listening can make a huge difference in The way we live and see things and experience them. Then we chilled back home at jbay for a week while the other teams did their stuff in capetown so I was so happy to finally have a bed and warm shower and got to Sleep late. The next week was lessons from Norm Wakefield, oom Gerrie and Uncle Joe and woah that stuff was mind-blowing my whole look on life has like been changed. The last couple of days has been very special spending the last bit of time we have with the other teams before we all go off. I'm just so overwhelmed at the fact that my new family is so awesome.
Until next time ....!
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Hey Austin! Awesome hearing about what you are up to and how its going. Its great to hear about the things God is doing in and through you. Please continue to write and know we are praying for you. If you have specific prayer requests please post them in your next post. I will be sharing your post with the youth on Friday too.
God bless Ashley & Tertius
Ahh ash!! You rock!! I really appriciate the support we only get enough time to blog when we leave a country or place but I will try to make it more, but it's hard! Free time for myself is actually time to serve more haha some pray request would be safety (because we are doing work in places that aren't always welcoming to us and people aren't very nice all over) so the second is for Jesus to just supernaturally fill me with his love so that when I'm shaken that what comes out is just his love !
Hi Austin. Thanks for sharing your blog. Wow, you have had some amazing experiences already and trust you are ready to 'hit the road...' Keep trusting in Jesus for all the big and little things. God bless, Love Colin and Morag
Ahh yeah thank you for that support I don't have always wifi or internet so sorry for the late reply I'm on the road now we are off to our second country. I hope you are doing well !!!
Haha, I only read this today. Praise God for all he is doing. Very proud of you. xx