As you can see or have heard from me I am fully funded. (Praise Jesus!) However, that is because the Lord has placed some serious loving and supportive people in my life. People, I didn’t think I deserved. I didn’t think I had such intentional, loving, kind people in my life here in Idaho, CA and AZ as well. I’ve been struggling to find a good support group here. It turns out they were right in front of me.
We had a deadline to reach right around Thanksgiving and I didn’t think I was going to make it. In fact, I was confident there was no way I was going to make that deadline or any of them for that matter. I had talked about it with a few people and had spent hours thinking about it and had come to the conclusion I would talk to my advisor about postponing my trip. I didn’t allow myself the proper time to prepare for fundraising. But the Lord had significantly different plans. I was going on this trip and He was going to provide the funds.
Thanksgiving morning I logged onto my fundraising summary page to find that some people very near to my heart had donated an amount that not only reached my deadline but surpassed that initial deadline. As soon as I saw it I started crying (even dad got emotional). The couple who donated are easily my biggest supporters for this trip and in life actually. They always have been and I know they always will be. A few weeks went on and some more donations came in but I was still very uncertain how I was going to meet my final deadline of $5,900. Part of me was questioning if I had jumped the gun with this trip but there was way more of me that knew the Lord was calling me to be apart of this team. I knew I was doing exactly what He wanted me to and that gave me the comfort of knowing He was going to provide the full amount. Sure enough, He provided. He provided WEEKS before my final deadline. Again, I not only met my final deadline but SURPASSED it by several hundred dollars. I cried again. I drove home in silence. Dad and I in awe, in disbelief. That’s when it hit me. I AM going on this trip. No if ands or buts. It was happening and I better start getting everything in order. So here we are, a few days before I leave Boise for three and a half months and it’s getting REAL. I guess I better cherish these last moments for a bit.
