My first semester is finished this page of my life has been turned. For the past 3 months I have been living in Jeffreys Bay for the Awakening portion of my experience here. It's hard to believe it's over. I feel as though we were just at training camp at Gainsville Georgia. I remember feeling so overwhelmed those first couple of days with my team. I was homesick and unsure if this was really where I was meant to be. I remember looking around at my team and thinking, "How will I ever bond with these people." I didn't know them, they didn't know me and yet we were to form a team and travel to the other side of the world together.

Three months later as I sat in one of our last discipleship sessions as a team where we gave our last words to eachother I just broke down crying. These former strangers are now like family to me. They have been my family these past couple of months. We have been through times of tribulation and times of celebration together. We've watched as each one of us has been ripped to pieces and then built back together again. The bond and unity we have as a team is nothing but the Lord‘s doing. He did such great things among us. It breaks my heart to have to say goodbye to so many. These people have taught me so much and I now see the beauty of the body of Christ in this group of misfits. Misfits is what we are. As I look up misfits in my dictionary it says, "somebody who does not belong: somebody who is out of place in a particular situation or environment." We all know deep down that we don't belong here, this earth is not our home. We are just passing through. We are exiles in this land, our citizenship is heaven and until we get there we will never truly be home.