“So tell me about yourself.”
When I hear that my brain instantly forgets absolutely everything I know about myself and I find myself fumbling for words that fit coherently together. Does that happen to anyone else? So naturally when I saw that I needed to write an introduction on my world race blog my brain instantly went on a vacation and left me sitting here trying to string together words to tell you about myself. Oh, and so I asked a friend what I should write for this and her response was, “Hi, my name is Kelly. I’m an introvert. And I’m awesome.”
I’m 22 years old. I’m a photographer and have also have been a nanny for the last few years. I absolutely love what I do, and could live quite a content life doing those forever. However, I’ve felt a bit restless for a while now. Restless because I was ignoring God calling me out of my comfort zone to go and serve Him wherever He may lead. I’ve wanted to be a missionary since I was little, but never saw how it would be feasible for me. I never thought I would be good enough for it, but now I know that God uses us all exactly as we are to accomplish His will. His power is made perfect in weakness. So one day I applied for The World Race, and a few days later I heard back and had an interview and then within a week and a half I was accepted. During that whole time I was praying that God would make it very clear to me if this was where He wanted me, that if this wasn’t for me that it wouldn’t even be an option. Right after I discussed that with my best friend I got a phone call from The World Race saying that if I still wanted to, that I was going on the trip in January!
I’m so excited to see what all God has in store for me. As I’m getting to know my squad a little bit, I’ve discovered that I’m the only introvert. . . at least as far as I’m aware, we shared our personality tests in our group chat one day. This fact could make things pretty interesting. I also just tend to be a really quiet person in general. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE people and I love getting to know them on a deep level, it just tends to be hard for me to get there since I don’t do well with small talk or shallower conversations. I want to know peoples life stories, their testimonies, and what makes them tick. I want to know how to love them well.
I have a heart for orphans and can’t wait to be able to love on them in several of the countries I’ll be going to. Really, I’m just excited and humbled that God would choose me and use me in this great adventure!
