Well we have been back for a bit now and I realized that I should maybe write some sort of concluding post. It already seems like everything was so long ago.

We had a really great time playing at BJ's church for the morning service and the evening of worship. BJ is so energetic and inspiring. He really gives all of himself into his worship. It was also really great to spend time with someone who is really politically minded and is passionate about how to improve Zambia and has practical ideas for how to do it. It was awesome to be invited into his church and feel like part of that incredible body of believers for a day.

We departed Lusaka early the next morning. It was hard to say goodbye to Africa and our beloved new friends, but everything must end. We flew to London and met Cameron's brothers for a couple days of simply being tourists. It was a really great time to just sort of unwind together and debrief from what was a quite extreme and intense trip. We got to debrief about how we felt about the whole trip- what we loved, what frustrated us, and what we want to do about it now. We also got to just hang out in lovely London, seeing the sights, biking, and busking. It was great to experience it with such great friends and really hard to say goodbye to them at the end of it. We left the boys in Europe on Thursday and flew home.

That is one awesome thing about this trip is that I have come out of it loving each person I went with even more than when we left. God blessed us with an incredible team and I thanked Him daily for sending each person that He did. He blessed us in so many ways over the trip. None of us got seriously sick, we never were in any unsafe, sketchy situations, we didn't see any snakes (maybe I am just really grateful for that one) even when we walked through the tall grass...the list could go on and on. I have learned a lot over this whole journey and I think it has changed my outlook on a lot of things. As I am still sorting through all that, the one thing that I am more sure of now than ever is that God is good. He is so good.

Thanks for reading,

Whitney