It’s taken me almost 2 weeks to even be able to sit down and try to explain how grateful and amazed I am…
Now at 18 I know what this feeling of longing I’ve always felt was, I remember being really young and just feeling almost out of place where I am. I could never really tell anyone why or even what I was feeling, but I knew I needed to help someone that wasn’t in Oklahoma. That is the felling of being called to the mission field.
When I started high school in 2013 I decided I wanted to go to school to study library sciences and then after several people told me that was a horrible idea and I needed to find something else to do with my life, (thanks again for crushing my dream Ryan P – hahaha) I decided that journalism was the place for me! I love to write and doing research can be fun, right? well, after doing some investigating and talking to people who had degrees in journalism, I realized that i needed to find something more exciting and something not a lot of people do, then one day while scrolling through instagram there it was, an ad for Hillsong College! It was perfect! It was cheaper than going to school here and it was in Sydney Australia! How much better could college get? It was all planned, I was going to graduate in May 2018 and then move to Sydney in June and go to school. Life was going to be amazing!
Or so I thought, This past spring my mom was working in Children’s church one Sunday and our children’s pastor (shout out to the awesome pastor Shane!) played a video of someone that was on the race and my mom came home that day and was like “This. This is where you belong” . After watching a few videos and kind of forgetting about it for a couple months, I announced to my entire youth group July would be my last summer attending Youth for the Nation with them. I woke up the last morning of that camp with my heart completely changed. I realized that Hillsong needs to wait, I need to see the world, speak the Gospel, and love on some people. As you might be able to tell from the title of this post, my favorite memory verse right now is Isaiah 6:8 “Here I am Lord, send me.” Which is exactly what is happening in my life right now, I’m so excited to be starting my journey on World Race Gap Year.
