Perfect Plan

Today was the first full day of PDO (Pre-Departure Orientation). I've spent a lot of time with the other interns and my teammate for the summer. It's amazing meeting people who are in different phases of life, but all who share the passion for where they will be going. Each and every person has a different story, but hearing how God has worked in their lives and brought them to this point and prepared them is incredible. God has a plan and it is perfect. God is good!

We did an exercise today in PDO that matched like personalities. It was remarkable because then we got to question other personalities in regards to how we could best incorporate them into problem solving and how to best work together, I saw many applications to this for the internship. It really dove into the interworkings of the dominate (lion), influential (otter), steadiness (golden retriever), and compliance (beaver) personalities. We asked question about situations and how they would react, adapt to other personalities, and how to get each unique personality involved. Todd (my teammate) and I have like personalities, which mesh great. We will work great in Turkana together, but it was a great learning experience and better prepared me for the task to soon be at hand.

God had really been preparing me mentally and spiritually to fly out on Tuesday. The verse that has defined my recent life has really resonated with me in this preparation.

"Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you."--1 Thessalonians 5:16-18     As I heard about the possible hyena hunt, the church under the trees on the savannah, and the roughing it in the bush, I rejoiced in how God has worked in my life and brought me to this point. The continuous prayer I will need to be in to grow close to God and the prayer I will need from everyone back home gives me chills because I will need that constant prayer for God to give me strength and wisdom. I think of the will of Christ and how He has called me to this internship and I could not give more thanks to Him because of how He brought me out of darkness and into the light. God had a plan and His plan is perfect.