What an incredible two weeks it has been! Training camp has been a blast. The teaching has been really solid and has also challenged my faith. The community of believers here is absolutely incredible and just hard to convey in words how special it is. The leadership team has been amazing in how they love and care for us. The fellow racers I am surrounded by truly love the Lord and I am challenged by them. I cannot wait to grow together as a family. 

Day to day, we have a worship and teaching time followed by a squad debrief in the morning. Then, we eat lunch and the afternoon may be filled with more teaching, washing your laundry by hand in a bucket, or training for a variety of different things. After dinner, we gather with our squads, have worship time, or have free time to hang out. We stay pretty busy and are fed a lot of information which helps me sleep well in my tent. One of the biggest things is getting used to bucket showering only every a couple of days. Some of you may be confused on what that means but it is exactly what it sounds like. You fill a Lowes bucket with tap water and use it to clean yourself. 

I will probably being saying squad and team a lot so I want to explain the meanings. The squad is all 34 racers, 6 team leaders, and squad mentors while the team is the smaller group of 5 or six racers with one team leader. 

The biggest thing God has been teaching me recently is that I do not know it all and that I need to rely on Him for discernment and wisdom. The teachings have brought up a lot of questions in me that I really just do not know how to answer. God has been teaching me to trust Him and seek out His Word for the answers. Please pray that I continue to rely on the Lord and His Word  to find who He truly is.

My purpose statement is this, "I seek to glorify God by enjoying who He is and pointing others to Him in every aspect of my life."