Well I thought I would be using my website...haha! Please know that internet is way slower and way more unpredictable than you can imagine! So, this seems to be the best way to stay in communication AND to post photos! (In the meantime I will be working on the website- but not sure if will ever work.) Thanks for understanding!
Well I'm here and SO EXCITED! Saying goodbye was a lot harder than I thought. I know I would be sad and cry a little but- WOW I started the ugly cry early. The day before I left was emotional- I cried when Laura headed back to Kansas City, during lunch and dinner and pretty much the following 36 hours until I landed in South Africa. Needless to say it as hard to comprehend being gone for 2 years (Even if I do come home for a visit). I'm fully confident that this is God's will for my life right now. IF you have been around me at all for the last few years this had been a passion God had grown in me and I'm really excited about my time in Malawi. (however, it was still really hard to leave my family, friends and everything I know as NORMAL/American culture. Being really honest...I told a few people that I though leaving was the hardest day of my life so far. I know it seems trivial in a way because now I'm with people who have experienced daily suffering and pain but I felt like I was in the eye of a storm. I knew "it" was coming, I could see "it" fast approaching and I just wanted to be through "it". I was intentional about spending time with my family and saying goodbyes before I left BUT nothing could have prepared me for the feelings of getting on a flight with a ONE-WAY ticket!!! Even now a few days after landing in Malawi with some of those feelings still lingering. I'm through the storm of goodbyes and moving into joy and excitement about being here! I'm adding a few pictures of the airport and my travel!
Thanks for everyones prayers during such a BIG transition! Please continue to pray for the next few weeks (maybe months) of culture-shock! Even though I've been to East Africa 3 times before- its not quite the same feelings of investing 2 years of my life, time, energy, tears, joy, relationships, food and public transportation- haha!!!
Love, Sarah:)
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