August 12 Today I woke up and thought to myself “We’re going home!” even though I knew we weren’t. It was hard getting up, because I didn’t know what to do look forward to. I was so over moving bricks and having kids tug at me, but with that mentality of course I would have a bad day. So I […]

August 11 The last day that turned out not to be our last day… I woke up excited and ready to give all my energy into our last day in the Congo, but I went to bed disappointed to hear that we were going to be staying longer. Each day I counted down until we go to go home. By […]

August 9 & August 10 The end of our trip is just around the weekend, but before we could say goodbye to Lubumbashi we went to visit the town of Likasi. Likasi was two hours away from Lubumbashi, but it felt like a whole different place. To start our weekend trip we woke up at 6 AM to board a […]

August 8 It was literally a long, long, day. Our team led a four hour long conference about compassion to teens and adults of the church. Preparing for the conference wasn’t hard because we’ve been learning about compassion this whole trip, yet sitting through the entire service was tough. Nonetheless it was an eye opening experience. For our trip our […]