Day 6 - Challenges

Today has been full of challenges, perhaps ones that haven’t been presented to me physically but ones that I have thought of throughout the day. In our team meeting this evening we had some great worship and following that we had a short Bible study. We were challenged on how we were being whilst we were here. At the end of the day we are only here for four weeks and for some that means that the real “you” isn’t being presented straight away and therefore the actual time that you can take to build a friendship is less because no-one is seeing the real you. Today I have been acting more normal. Normality recently has been me not showing off, but since coming here that’s exactly what I have been doing. Showing off. As I continue to settle, I am becoming more relaxed and that means that people see the real me now. Some may not like that, but that’s fine because I need to be getting my affirmation from God. I got to talk to a few kids, today as well which was great. Working in an office could easily mean that I don’t see any, so that is a relief. I continue to build relationships with the Summer Staff here. They are great and I love the group, there really is no one that I dislike. Already though I am thinking ahead to the time when I leave here and we have to say out ‘goodbyes” and for the vast majority of the people here that will mean me not seeing them ever again. That makes things kind of hard to process about whether I want to build friendships. But I know that I obviously do and should. I’m not missing the UK or the people yet, please don’t take offence if your one of those people, I love you, but it’s good to have time out too. I went Ridge Running today (which is basically Karting). That was awesome and I shall look at doing that again. This place really is great and I love being here. Hopefully this will last. I’m still reading my Bible daily and picking out and highlighting good verses. It’s pretty cool reading the Bible; you should do it, especially if you’re not a Christian.