Okay, so I've been very transparent throughout my whole World Race experience not only just to my squad and teammates but also to everyone reading my blog. I am sorry if anything I've admitted to on my blog has offended or disappointed anyone. The whole World Race organization is about stepping out with faith, and I am doing that with complete honesty and hope that you will accept me for my negative experience with this as well as the positive.
HOWEVER, I will try to stay positive, and hopefully will not have to admit any shameful moments to you anymore!
Let’s start over, shall we?
I'm Tressa Clay, I'm turning 21 on September 18th, and I am going to be a missionary for eleven months in eleven different countries. I have an AWESOME church congregation who has given me all of the money I've raised so far, and I am so incredibly grateful and blessed. My family is AMAZING and wouldn’t trade them in for the WORLD. I am leaving October 5th, 2011 to LAX, then on the 7th of October flying out to Antigua Guatemala to do the Lord’s work!
Now that we have our intro out of the way, let’s talk about what God just did.
Due to this trip being a month away and it becoming real rather than a day dream; preparing has became a very rough task this past month. I have been dealing with the normal feelings that anyone would have who is leaving their home, family, friends, job, schooling, and every ounce of comfort they have. SO, if you do not know this about me- my biggest passion is for the mentally challenged/disabled people. I want to work with these people as my life's work and mission, and also has been my job for the past year. I LOVE IT!
So the ONLY thing that has kept me going this past month is I have felt as though God was going to send me a mentally challenged/disabled child. Well my awesome team leader (check out his blog, it’ll blow your socks off! www.brandonboyd.theworldrace.org) called me and told me that we will be staying in an orphanage for mentally challenged children. Eleven mentally challenged children! I was expecting one! And certainly not in the first month! God is good, and I see that throughout the hard times and storms.
Once again PLEASE PLEASE keep praying for me! I am excited that I get to have ya’ll involved with this trip through these blogs! Thank you for the support!
