Everything started when a loving grandfather started to show his little granddaughter the world through books. Why didn’t he read normal kids’ books to her? God only knows. With that she didn’t just fall in love with the idea of reading but with traveling as well. Hunger started to grow in her to experience different colors, sounds, flavors, and scents. She couldn’t understand that there was so much more than her little town, that there was more than her little island.
(my grandfather’s books)
(Adventure junkie since born)
Years later my best friend from childhood started her own adventure with her missionary mother, spending 6 months or more in the Dominican Republic. Some time later she lived for a whole year in Italy. Seeing my friend and her wonderful mother doing missions awoke a passion in my heart.
After years of daydreaming about adventures around the world, I finally left my island and worked for the first time in Haiti in 2008. That experience just made me more and more hungry for God’s adventures. I couldn’t believe that someone could see the world and do God’s will at the same time. I understood it was hard and I had to pay with hard work and surrendering my comfort, but it was so worth it. (If you want to know more about my work in Haiti feel free to read my blog “Haiti and me.”)
So after years of seeing the need in my beloved Haiti and my comforts at home, I just knew that I needed to do more in this world. I didn’t want to graduate and have a normal job and live the “normal dream life.” This desire grew in my heart, and I was starting to feel anxious because I was going to graduate from college in May (it was March at that time) and I didn’t know what to do next. I was desperate for God’s direction when suddenly a friend sent me a Facebook message with the World Race’s information. When I clicked and saw that crazy adventure I knew it was something I had to pray about.
Months passed, I had my graduation, I worked that summer in Haiti, and finally came back home. There I was uncomfortable with the comfort, with the silence and with the stillness in my life. Then the World Race started to be in my mind every second of every day. I don’t know if I wanted to escape. I just knew that I had to leave. I spoke with my pastor about it, expecting him to say that I had to wait, pray or check something else, but no, he said, “Just go for it, if God doesn’t want you there you won’t be able to go. You definitely need his help with the big goal ($$).” My parents said the same thing. And ever since I got accepted God has supplied for every little thing and not just that, he has been showing me why I need to do the world race and why I have to work in those places (explanation in the next blog, coming soon!) So right now God has me in his hands (I literally can see it and feel it), and now I’m sure that the things that he started to do in me since I was a little girl will be completed, not just with the World Race, but also in my whole life.
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There will be 4 squads launching in JULY 2014.
We’re known as:
July Route 1 = D Squad
July Route 2 = E Squad (mine)
July Route 3 = F Squad
July Route 4 = G Squad
So, WR has the tradition of doing the SQUAD WARS and we will have differents challenges where we have to earn points for our squad!The squad with the most points at the end of Squad Wars WINS!The first one is the VIDEO CHALLENGE, where each of everyone of us has to make an introduction video! Here is mine, (btw has to be 11 seconds or less, what a challenge!!
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