First off I just want to apologize to all of my friends and family and supporters that I have left in the dark this past month! I've been having a hard time sitting down and actually writing a good blog but no excuses for my irresponsibilityJ So I'm just going to dive in.

    The first week that I was gone I was at training camp which was held in Gainesville, Georgia. Training camp was great, right away I felt right at home with my teammates.  We did a ton of team building projects, like standing on a tarp and turning it over onto its other side without getting off the tarp (we did it!).  Worship was amazing and just getting real and getting rid of the things that would hold us back from our ministry on the field was great. So yeah that basically sums up training camp.  

    The beginning of the second week was pretty much traveling.  We left Georgia on Monday morning and arrived in Jefferys Bay Tuesday night.  So Wednesday was just getting over jet lag and getting to know the place. For the first three months we will be staying at this camp site (like camp crestview but not camp crestview) its called UCSA; I don't know what that means but its really nice I'll have to give you a tour sometime. On Thursday  we went on a scavenger hunt and to get to know the place even better which was really fun and exciting. J- Bay is a surfers town pretty much, it reminds me of a southern Californian beach town, at least the town does.  But, as we walked further to our right we found ourselves in the township. The township at first isn't that bad, a lot of people have these smaller houses that the government has given them for free, they're reasonably nice and, for the most part, the people take care of them. But if you look beyond the nicer houses you can see that so many other people are living in shacks I can't h

elp but think that, like most governments, they are just covering up the poverty, but I don‘t want to get political. So I guess that's my first impression of J-Bay.

    The next day, Friday, our team had to leave UCSA because there was a camp coming in so we went to the bush. The bush is their forest (Its like Australia) basically, anyways the trip there was kind of fun we had to drive (did I mention that they drive on the wrong side of the road) across these rough hills and cross a very small river, it was fun.  Anyways we get to "the bush" which is another camp site and this camp is roughing it. For example,  we got to cook all of our food over an open fire and stay in these little shack kind of things for the night, so we froze at night because its still spring here so its pretty cold and if we wanted warm water we had to build a fire in this fire place thing.  We had some good bonding time here and just getting to know each other even better and I went repelling off a cliff  which was pretty fun actually I was really surprised with myself I didn't get scared at all.  

    So that was our first week in J-Bay, I know that I haven't discussed anything about our ministries but that's the next week and another blog so I hope everyone is doing well and having a good fall. I love you all.