I have wanted to write this blog for about two weeks now, but the thought of it has been unbearable to me. That thought blows my mind because this is not an unbearable blog, in fact it is a tremendously exciting blog. So I am just going to dive right into it, but I have to back track to before training camp so that you can fully grasp how huge this story is in my own life!!
Before training camp my life consisted of a lot of blog stalking and facebook creeping on what would become my new family! I looked at everybody's pictures and asked many of them how I could pray for them. One person that I was almost immediately drawn to is my friend Jacob Fields. Jake is one of my favorite people on the race, and yes I do play favorites! A few years ago he was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, which is not a fun thing to be diagnosed with. But his faith and trust in God to heal him blew my mind, and this made me want to be his friend so bad because God was going to perform miracles!!
Fast forward to training camp.
I don't know what my deal was during this week, I was so quiet and reserved; I hardly talked to anybody. But one night on a bus I got to spend the night talking to and laughing with Jake and Emily. Very quickly these two became some of my favorite people, I mean if you can spend an entire night on a bus laughing with people you were destined to be great friends! So even more I was drawn to Jake and his faith that God would heal him and it gave me faith that God would heal him; and then we had a session on healing. In this session the speaker spent a good amount of time going from scripture to scripture to show us that God is a God that heals, and He uses His people to work through! After that we spent some time praying over people for healing, and I experienced the Holy Spirit in a way that made me uber excited and freaked me out all at the same time…it was awesome! This day gave me even more faith that God would heal Jake, and then I was put on a team with Jake and Emily!
Fast forward to Launch.
During this preparation to leave the states and enter the foreign mission field each of our teams had a meeting with our squad leaders, coaches, and AIM representatives. During this meeting we discussed some of our discomforts with training camp and immediately I shared how uncomfortable I was with things like healing people. I went on and on, and everybody in the room just listened. Later in the conversation one of the AIM representatives spoke up and expressed that he found it funny that I was so uncomfortable with praying for healing because while I was rambling on and on about it all God gave him His eyes for me and he saw me as a person that God would use to bring healing to people's bodies. As you can imagine my mind immediately went to Jake. I knew that Jake would be healed, and now the seed was planted that I may just have a part in this miracle!!
Onto Part 2!
