We woke up early this morning and embarked on what ended up being a 10 hour ride into the bush. We’re now at camp, which is the sector manager’s base, just hanging out and getting settled in our small tents. (Last night we were in big tents on base that had beds). I think everything is starting to hit me now, and it’s making me emotional, which isn’t fun. But I suppose the spiritual warfare is overdue. I’ll be honest, it really started with the bathroom issue. The first time I tried to pee, I couldn’t do it. If I had to pick “the thing” I could have stressed about, it’d be just that, so not being able to pee was the realization of my biggest worry. Thankfully, it’s gotten a lot better, and even better still, our camp has a long drop styled like a toilet with a seat.
It’s also challenging to get used to camping, but that’s just the lack of outdoors experience I have and not related to Zambia, and I know that God will help me. It’s about and for Him anyway, I just have to focus my mind. Hopefully being out in the villages with the people will help, even though we aren’t starting our ministry days for a couple more days. At this point, I think it’s actually unfortunate that I watched those Zambia videos as much as I did because I’m finding myself comparing my trip to theirs and holding high expectations of details. The only expectation I should have is that God is going to move.
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