Before this past year I had never felt like I was called to missions at all. I always thought that I would go to school, graduate college, go to grad school, then find a job (the boring monotonous stuff everyone does). I was going into my last semester at Ouachita Baptist University and I still had no idea what I was going to do after I graduated. About a month into my last year one of my closest friends who is also graduating in May announces that she feels God calling her to work at an orphanage in Africa for about 6-8 months after she graduates. At that point I am really freaking out feeling like I am really behind on everything, but it also makes me start thinking. Her story led me to begin thinking about doing something other than going straight to grad school; so I really began thinking about traveling. I have always wanted to travel, but after I heard my friend's story I felt led to travel with a purpose.
A couple of weeks later I told another close friend about what God was doing in my life and she told me about the World Race. I began to pray about whether or not this was really what God wanted me to do. And as I continued to look into it I began to see God calling me to go on this mission trip. As things went along and I started to go through the process of registering for the race, everything started falling into place.
As I said at the beginning, before this year I didn't feel called to the mission field but now I am so excited to be able to go to on this trip and cannot wait to be able to share God's word with as many people as I can.
