Hey there! As the title would suggest, this blog is geared to tell you a little bit about myself, some of which you might know and some you might not.
We’ll start off with the easy stuff:
1. I’m 22, grew up in Waconia, MN, and am currently living in Crookston, MN.
2. My favorite color is green (cornfield green to be exact).
3. I LOVE meatloaf.
I graduated this past spring from the U of M Crookston, with a degree in Agronomy (agricultural science – I like playing with plants), and at the time of this post I am currently transitioning from working for one of my professors in the lab to working for the Minnesota Wheat Growers, whom I will hopefully be able to work with when I come back from the race. I also plan to attend grad school when I get back, tentatively focusing on plant breeding or plant physiology.
For people who know me, it kind of comes out of left field when I tell people that I’m putting school on hold to travel on the World Race for a year (although not all that surprising when you think about it). Why did I decide to do this? Well, the past year or so has been a little rough, mentally, and I completely lost all sense of direction and motivation for continuing on to grad school and figuring out what I wanted to do with my life. I became disengaged with my friends, wasn’t going to church, stayed out too late and fell behind in school – to the point where I was worried about passing a few of my classes. So I hit my knees – and God answered. I realized I can’t do it by myself; doing it my way was getting me absolutely nowhere, fast. I began asking what He wanted me to do, where He wanted me to go, and the only reply I heard back was “Go”. Go where? Home? School? West? East? I’d been playing around with the idea of a mission trip in the back of my mind, and quite honestly one of the reasons I couldn’t come to any decisions about school was that I kept asking myself “What does it matter that I go and do research when there are still people in this world who don’t know God.” One night I googled “travel, mission trip” (funny, I know), and long story short, here we are!
From the moment I clicked the Go tab on the World Race homepage (see what He did there), I’ve known this is what I am supposed to be doing. I’m still struggling with building my faith and staying motivated for the trip among all the other trivial problems twenty-two year-olds deal with, but this time I’m not doing it alone. This trip is not just about building communities and ministering to the lost – I’m also going on my own personal quest to come closer to God, to see the world through His eyes, and to answer that small, quiet voice when it calls.
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