Plan to go, be willing to stay

Our Missions Conference started on Tuesday, and the last session is tonight. There have been incredible times of worship where we sing in all different languages from all over the world and the styles of music are different. It's wonderful! The speakers are really good to. Floyd McClung is one of them, and something that he said on Tuesday really spoke to my heart. Plan to go, be willing to stay. Too many people are saying that they haven't been "called", so to speak, to the mission field. But what's wrong with volunteering? It's not like God is gonna say "Stop trying to serve Me! You're messing up My plans!" (This is all what Floyd said). The part that really struck me personally, though, was the be willing to stay part. I've been "planning to go" for a long time now, and to be honest, I am not willing to stay here. I have no desire whatsoever to live long term in North America. I want to go to Africa, and I do feel called there, but would I be willing to stay here if this was where God wanted me for the next 10 years? It's something that I'm really struggling with right now, and will probably continue to struggle with until I surrender, once again, everything to God.
Tomorrow morning at about 6 or 7 the basketball teams will be travelling up to Fort McMurray to play some ball. It's an 8-10 hour drive, depending on the roads. Please pray for safety as we travel. We'll be playing at 6:30pm on Friday, and again at 11am on Saturday, and then we'll head back to Three Hills as soon as the guys game is done. (The girls always play first). It's going to be a good time, but I am going to be so dead by the end of it! But it'll be fun. It will. ;)