So today as we unpacked from Mumbai and discussed how we planned to fill the remaining 17 days it hit…
There are only 17 days left.
The past few months have gonna by in the blink of an eye, from the day i walked into the airport not knowing how i felt about these people who I was sure would judge everything about me, but knowing I just wanted to travel. To not wanting to close my eyes at night because it meant yet another day with these 5 amazing girls had slipped through my fingers. We have become closer than I had ever imaged was possible.
Each one of us is so different and unique, coming from all walks of life. It is so beautiful how we have come together each bringing something new to be learned. Like a puzzle we feel incomplete when one is missing. I remember we had to spend one night apart because Becca and Kenzie were at the hospital and by the next morning all we wanted to do was go home because we missed them so much.
We are a family,
before ever meeting, united in Christ and held together through His unfailing love. This team has taught me so much. I have learned the importance of community, in other words, family. A safe place to share things and to know you are loved for who you are. 
As children of the Father we should be able to find that community all over the world, literally. I have experienced this first hand half way around the world meeting all types of people who are so friendly and open to us because we share in the family of Christ. I am so thankful for my church family who as been so dedicated to prayers for my team and all we are doing and all the support my family in Christ has given me.
Most importantly I have learned how much i am thankful for the biological family God has given me. I couldn’t ask for better parents or obnoxious little brothers:) if He let me hand pick them myself. I never thought I would miss being with them as much as I have over the past 3 months. Their love and steady prayers have been what has kept me going even when things were tough here and on my own i would have wanted to give up. A family and the support of a community no matter whether it be people from other countries, states or just across the hall is just another way God expresses His love for us because he saw even in the beginning it was “not good for man to be alone”.
