I’ll be home in about a week which is absolutely crazy to think about! In a recent blog I gave you a list of ways you can help me transition home and love me well. In this blog I have even more specific questions that you can ask to get a better picture and more details of how my 11-month, life-transforming trip impacted me.
My amazing teammate and friend Molly spent a great deal of thought and time putting together these questions. So here is an adjusted version of her blog.
General
What did you learn about being a believer this year?
What did you learn about being a leader?
What were some of your favorite moments with your teams? (Abundance & Piñatas)
What places and moments broke your heart?
What places and moments did you feel most alive?
Who are your closest friends that you made on the Race, and why?
What were some of your worst living conditions? What were the best?
What ministry was the most challenging?
Which ministry was your favorite?
If you could live in any country you’ve been to, where would it be?
What was your favorite country and why?
What other countries did you go to that were not on your route?
What was your favorite continent?
What was your favorite country in each continent?
What was it like to live out of a backpack all year?
What were you most nervous about before you left?
What was one of the best days on the race? Worst day on the race?
When were you most homesick?
What did you learn from being on a co-ed team? All-girls team?
What were some of the most difficult parts about being a team leader? most rewarding?
Europe
What were your expectations of Eastern Europe before you got there? And what was the reality?
What was the hardest part of being in Europe?
What was the transition like into Europe from home?
What was it like to be with your whole squad in Romania?
What does ministry look like when you have 43 people in one place?
How was working in the refugee camp in Greece?
What was the hardest part about working with refugees? What did you learn from them?
How did working with refugees impact the trajectory of your future?
Asia
What was traditional (Malaysian, Thai, Burmese) food like?
What was the weirdest thing you saw people eat?
What was public transportation like?
What were bathrooms like in Asia?
Ask me about my squadmate having to stop a whole train to go to the hospital on the way to Thailand.
Ask me about off days/adventure days in each country and what they looked like.
Ask me about our overnight chicken bus to Myanmar.
How did Cambodia get added to your route?
What is the Awakening?
How were the holidays overseas (Thanksgiving in Malaysia, Christmas and New Year in Thailand)?
Africa
In what ways did Africa surprise you?
What did you do when you visited Victoria Falls?
Ask me about our house keeper in Zimbabwe.
Ask me about the stars in Lesotho!
How did Lesotho, South Africa, and Zimbabwe differ?
What was it like to go into a prison in Lesotho?
Ask about the missionary family also living in Lesotho.
Ask me about Townships and racism in South Africa.
What was it like to have your mom visit for a week in South Africa?
What animals did we see on our safari?
Ask anything about any of our Hosts in Africa!
What people were the hardest for you to say goodbye to from each month in Africa?
Ask me about a ministry that intrigues you!
We shared the Gospel in hospitals and prisons, we gardened, and built a fence around said garden, taught a bible stories in a school, and sang in church on Sundays in Lesotho. We helped set up for PVT, did a lot of manual labor, and registered people for a life skills class in South Africa. We did a lot of evangelism, helped out at nursing homes, did house visits, and spoke to youth groups in Zimbabwe.
Caribbean
How was your layover in New York?
How was your travel from Port-Au-Prince to your ministry place?
How did you deal with your spiritual warfare at the beginning of the month?
How was it working in a children’s home?
Ask me about the kids I worked with, and their stories.
What was it like to have to give extra special attention to a sick baby?
You can ask me about sponsorships for the kids in Haiti, if you are interested in that!
How was month 11 in the Dominican Republic different?
What was it like to find your own ministry?
What are some intense things that happened to your squad mates while in the DR?
How did God work in ways you didn’t expect in your month finding ministry?
Ask me about a ministry that intrigues you!
We worked at a school and a a children’s home, and made a music video, in Haiti. The Dominican Republic was a lot of processing the last year, prayer walks, working at a medical clinic, visited and elderly home and an orphanage, but really it was mostly enjoying the last couple of days with my squad.
I’m going back out onto the field in October to lead a new group of Racers around the World! Please prayerfully consider donating to God’s Bank account to help me reach my goal of $6,500!
