Today has been a weird day and this week will be weird for a lot of college students. In college this weird thing happens where your parents send you off to college and you spend all this time making new friends. However, you forget that in May all those people will go back to where they came from and you will do the same. No more tests, homework, quizzes, all nighters, or tireless meetings with professors.
Two years ago when Evan and I first planned this trip I wasn't thinking about this awkward phase we call summer. Last summer I came home and immediately started working as an intern at First Baptist Church in Georgetown. I took no down time and I liked it that way.
This year is different. This year I left College Station and all my friends and on the two hour drive here I thought to myself "I have nothing to do..." I have no 9-5 job, scheduled class, youth ministry meeting, or date night with my girlfriend. Thinking about it kind of scared me honestly, because I love being busy. Outside of intense training, getting my eating habits back on track, one wedding, and a few days in Sanger, Texas I have nothing to do with my life until June 9th when we leave on this trip.
But this is a good thing. Because the truth is, I have so much to do until we leave still! I will finally spend my time looking for sponsors for the trip, gathering all the supplies we need, working on my bike, getting designs for the truck finalized, and DELIVERING YOU GUYS YOUR SHIRTS. I'll get to focus on something that I love so much and is so dear to my heart and can fully focus on this one thing without distractions of school or business.
So what does this mean for you guys? It means that I am finally fully focused on the people we want to serve. That all the things and ideas that have been set aside will be looked at and monitored. It means that you will frequently see a shirtless kid with tattoos all over his back running around town and you're just going to have to accept it.
Lastly I just want to continue to ask for your prayers. Prayers for the riders, for sponsorship, for continual donors, and lastly for the Lord to continue to bring us more people to help. This week we were fortunate enough to interview with someone else who needs our help at Wendie's Wish. I can confidently tell you there is no greater blessing than to hear the stories of these people and know that we can be a small answer to their own prayers.
(Sorry for the lack of pictures and media. Be on the look out for one more video before the trip!)
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