Sunday June 14th - Tuesday June 16th : Training

On Sunday the rest of the project arrived in Texas. All the missionaries were finally there and it was great to have the whole project together. We were assigned to teams. I was on team Caritas. Led by Adrian and Kat. There were 23 of us missionaries and then the two leaders, making a grand total of 25. The team was mostly made up of girls. There were only 16 guys on the entire project, and only 6 on my team. We played some games to get to know each other and learn each others names. There were a lot of names to remember.
I was chosen to be an MA! I was so excited. Out of the 30 MA candidates, I was one of the 15 chosen to have a leadership role on this trip. The job came with a lot of responsibility, but it was awesome. I'll explain more about what it means to be an MA later.
Each day we had a few sessions of training with some practice / breakout time and some great speakers and great worship. It was a great time to really draw near to the Lord before we were sent out to Uganda.
A lot of our time in Texas was spent learning the abstinence program that we did in Uganda. It was called the "True Love Waits" program and I think I could probably do the entire program in my sleep now. We practiced it time after time after time. We were broken into smaller groups called MIGs... which stands for Ministry Group. I was the leader of the group because I was an MA. There were 4 other people in my group. 3 girls, and 1 guy. We got section 3 of the program to learn very well. We would be doing section 3 when we presented the whole program in Uganda, so our goal was to learn it very well. We went over the program so many times I can't even count.
Tuesday night, the final session was what GE (global expeditions) calls "Commissioning Night". And that is just such an awesome night. The final session has a lot of worship, an encouraging speaker (who was Ron Luce, the founder of Teen Mania) and then prayer as a project. They line all the flags up of countries that people were going to and then we followed the flags outside. We did a lot of praying for Uganda. It was the final step before we headed to Uganda.