Hello Team Africa, I have been reading your blogs as often as I can, and I really enjoy hearing the amazing, sad, and funny times that you guys are all having while you are in South Africa. I pray for you guys all. LOVE YA AND MISS YA!!!!!!!!!
Time is coming soon when you will be returning home for Christmas, where you will be thrown into a world that is not only familiar too you but also very hard to except when you get back. It is just a little over 3 weeks since I have been home and I still find it a little surreal to be home. Its hard at times to live such an extremely different way than I did in Africa, but what an experience that the LORD has blessed me with and you all as well, it humbles my heart to have experienced it for myself.
There are some things that I would love to just let you all know about before returning home so you can have a little bit of a warning so that it wont be such a surprise to you when you get home.
ALLOW YOURSELF A COUPLE DAYS TO YOURSELF!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT HELPS YOU a lot especially the first few days home when everyone wants to see you and talk to you and you are just in TOTAL CULTURE SHOCK because of such a different change. ALTHOUGH my first day home I went and surprised a few friends at their work and it was GREAT…….I went home and the next days wanted to be alone and just stay away just for a little until I felt as though I could start to live. love aubs
DONT EXPECT PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING THAT YOU HAVE SEEN OR EXPERIENCED WHILE GONE, they won’t….. over course stories are good but it helps when you are sharing to use as much detail but make the story short and simple, Dont overload them!!! so you wont have to explain yourself to much because, you will be sharing the SAME THING OVER AND OVER FOR THE WHOLE MONTH THAT YOU GUYS ARE HOME. TRUST ME!!! IM HOME AND IM STILL SHARING THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER…. I love that people will ask about my trip but after 3 weeks its a little overwhelming because you tell them the same stuff. It will get a little tiring, although my heart is to share and talk to people sometimes its difficult. love aubs
REMEMBER THAT WHILE YOU WERE GONE AND YOUR LIFE WAS GOING ON EVERYONE ELSE AT HOME ALSO HAD A LIFE TO LIVE ALSO. at first you may feel that even thought people talk to you and want to hear all about it and you share your stories, your emotions might make you think that know one cares that you were gone, or someone might say I HAVEN’T SEEN YOU IN SO LONG WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? I MISSED YA AT CHURCH…. and so on. BE BLESSED that you have an opportunity to share with them what GOD is doing in your life and those on your team. AMEN
love aubs
Just a mild change ————-
WEATHER- well in my case I came home to about the 20’s sometimes in the 30’s and now ITS IN THE TEENS here in ALASKA. so in my case Definetly weather shock…. Along with the all the snow that was here has melted in the first week that I was home… YOU MAY EXPERIENCE such but if you are LINDSEY WATSON OR BAILEY SWAGER who live in California and FLORIDA then you may not have a problem with the different changes. love aubs
