Hello all!
So it's been 2 months since I posted an
update but there's a valid reason. So September was our last month
serving on the field. It consisted of testing, grading and lots of
goodbyes. It was hard yet an amazing month. And then came re-entry.
Our class reunited in Montana and stayed in an amazing cabin up on a
mountain. We had discussions about some great books and about our
time on the field. It was really great seeing how the Lord has worked
in all of our lives and changed our hearts in the past 6 months. We
unpacked things that we were feeling like fear, excitement, sadness.
We talked about these feelings and walked through culture shock
together. We soaked all of our fears and worries in prayer, sorted
through what God did in all of our lives during field time and then
got sent back out to share these experiences with those back at our
home churches. It was amazing to see my class again. So even more, it
was brutal saying goodbye to them last Saturday when re-entry ended.
I'm so thankful for the people God gave me to go through these last
10 months with. I am especially grateful for the 4 of my classmates
that made up my incredible family for the past 7 months. They are
wonderful and I can't imagine what field time would have been like
without them. The Lord showed us what true unity looks like when we
learned how to die to ourselves and love each other no matter what.
The Lord is the only way to explain how our team became so close.
When we started 7 months ago, we were all opposites that didn't
really get a long and had no idea how we were ever going to be a team
and work together. But man, oh man, when I said goodbye to them on
two days ago, it felt like severing my limbs and sending them all
over the country. It was so hard to say goodbye but I am so thankful
for how much it hurt because it shows me the amazing work that the
Lord did in us.
So if you have not heard, I am staying
in Whitefish, Montana to serve with Potter's Field for my last two
months of IGNITE and after visiting family and friends for Christmas,
I will return to Montana until God moves me elsewhere. I don't know
what's next. I don't even know what tomorrow looks like but I do know
that the Lord led me here and He has been with me through the last
year and He isn't going to leave me. He is so good and so faithful
and I could never earn His grace.
Thank you so much for your support over
these last 10 months. I am so beyond blessed.
Stay tuned to this blog to see what
happens next!
God is good. I am a witness!
By His Grace,
MaKayla
