I can't believe that, as of today, its been almost a month since I've been home. In some ways, it feels like I just got here. Like it wash just a couple days ago that I was with my teammates and family…

I’m going to be blunt and honest. I’m really dreading writing this blog. I have been doing everything I can to avoid writing it for the past week. And even now, as I sit here and finally buckle down to…

“I feel like nobody likes me.”   There’s always that one girl. That one girl who seemingly is always screaming for attention. Always wanting people to give her the undivided attention that she never got, or begging for the constant…

A lot of people are afraid of hospitals. Terrified, actually. The thought of them gives people the creeps and makes them unfathomably uncomfortable. Either that or they have many negative connotations that come with hospitals like sickness, death, infection, depression,…

I’m called oblivious a lot. Like seriously, a lot. People tell me all the time, especially my squad. I don’t know how it happens, but it seems that I’m always missing out on something. Whether it be a joke everyone’s…

“Muli bwanji?”   “Ndili bwino! Kaya inu?”   “Ndili bwino! Zikomo!”   A simple conversation I have in passing with at least 20 local Malawian people every day. A conversation simply saying, “How are you? Fine, and you? Fine, thank…

Just a quick update, because right now internet is not free and I only having sparingly…but I just wanted to update  all of you that I am finally in AFRICA! CRAZY! My squad and I made it safe to Lilongwe,…

It doesn’t feel real. I’m sitting here after saying good bye to our ministry contact, Sharon from Children’s Garden. And it still hasn’t hit me. Tomorrow morning I will be on a plane that will begin my over 24 hour…

“If judgment looms under every steeple If lofty glances from lofty people Can't see past her scarlet letter And we never even met her” –Does Anybody Hear Her, Casting Crowns   I’m finally sitting here, taking the time to write…