Philippians and Thailand team as we get ready to depart on the first plane 😁
Below is a picture of a squatty potty which I will have to use a lot of over the next three months. I’ll be honest when my parents went to china, to get my sister, they made it sound a lot worse then this. It wasn’t too bad, it was like going to the bathroom outside my house in the woods squatting down and going. Thanks dad living in the woods definitely helped prepare me for this 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Tim, Lex, Emmy and I are ready for the flight to take off ✔️👍🏻 10+ hours later…
As I sit here on the airplane I look back at my last 3 months of my time on Maui. I was so excited coming to YWAM and just thought of it as a getaway from my home life. My home life wasn’t bad at all, I just knew if I stayed in Meadville it wouldn’t have been the life God wanted for me. So about 7-8 months ago I made the decision to leave home and come to Maui. I’ll be honest with you I thought I was coming to sunny Maui and going to the beach everyday just like many of you thought. I think I went to the beach a total of 5 times, maybe. My life, as I’ve said before (because it is SO true), has definitely been flipped upside down during these past three months. I learned so much over the past three months. Some things I learned are…
•my identity with Christ
•how to disciple my faith to others
•living a life as a daughter of the King
•how to fully love and trust God
•I have NO Fear of Man
•All prayers are powerful no matter how short or long
Coming home is definitely going to be a challenge for me, but I know after these next three months in Thailand God is going to position me so I will know where he wants me next.
Some people from the teams waiting for our flight in Tokyo.
Before coming to YWAM I always thought of the Bible as a story. In Sunday school the teachers always would say, “okay let’s hear this Bible story” and that made me think it wasn’t real life. Let me tell you… GOD IS ALIVE AND GOD IS SO REAL! I just have SO much JOY and HAPPINESS over the simplest things anymore. Like reading the Bible and praying. Before I came here I think I read the Bible like once a month honestly. I just wasn’t into reading the Bible and didn’t understand it. ALL the staff and leaders helped me see this. I am so thankful to them. I had one staff give me a card that literally made me cry. I didn’t really get to know her well and really regret not getting to know her now but I know she will do so awesome as a leader next year in the surfers program! Love you Kirsten!! It’s sad when you don’t listen to your body. I can’t tell you how many times my body keep telling me to get to know Kirsten and I just ignored it. Those are times when I ignored God and needed to.
As I go out into the world I want people to look at me and see Jesus glowing inside of me. I want to want the feelings of joy and of being happy for real, as real emotions and I really think I’m getting there! I’m so excited for what my time here in Thailand will be like. I’ve been here for 5 hours and only 4 of them have been sleeping and I already feel my world changing.
Love you all thanks so much for the prayers! KEEP PRAYING 👍🏻💕
This is what we road on to the way to our house in Thailand.
Xoxo until I can write again…!
Much love,
Rachel 💗
Chasing Faith and Health 
