"I think I want to switch."
"You know your route backwards and forwards, you have talked to 30 people on skype and you so many new friends on your squad, what do you mean you want to switch? You're being dumb."
"Ok fine, I won't switch."
The above is the conversation I've had with more people then I think I can count over the past few weeks. Always leaning towards switching, always changing my mind at the last minute.
Then the deadline went away, other people got phone calls on Friday, but I didn't. I thought God had me where He wanted me. I had lost 3 of my best friends to other squads already and I thought that the switch was over. We were even and there was a reason I didn't get called.
Then Tuesday comes along and I get a phone call. Erin is on the other end saying they need 5 more girls to switch squads and that I am being asked, along with every other girl on our squad. If we don't get the numbers then something will happen at training camp.
I frantically begin calling everyone on R-squad who I had numbers for while I was on my lunch break, trying to figure out who was switching, who was staying, and what I was supposed to do. Anna prayed for me as I sat at Zaxby's, Katelyn said a prayer for me while she was at lunch, and I got countless text messages from others that said they were doing the same.
Karah messaged me and said she was going. Vietnam spoke to her and that God was pulling her to it. Candice messaged me and said she was thinking about it, hard.
I still had no clue what to do but it was getting to be close to 5 and I had told Erin that I would give her my answer by the time I got off work. I called Erin to find out if they still needed me but I called to really tell her no.
Half way through my phone conversation, something changed, I said yes, I would commit, I would make the switch to Q squad. And peace flooded over me. I thought I would be in tears, I thought that I would be mourning the loss of R squad if I chose to make the switch. But instead there was a smile and so much peace in the decision. I knew I had made the right choice.
So there it is, I have switched routes. I am going on July Route 1.
Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, South Africa, Swaziland, Mozambique, Nepal, India, Turkey, Bulgaria, and Romania.
Oh and to let you in on a secret, Route 1 was always my first choice.
