Monday, November 2, 2015

God is Good. I am a Witness... Update on Month 6 and Re-entry

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

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