Can you believe it! In less than 2 months I leave for an 11 month missions trip around the USA! It truly hit me when I went and bought a one way plane ticket to Atlanta. It is becoming more of a reality than a dream that I had in July. All of the emotions are starting to hit me.
I am honestly more terrified than anything else. The fact that I am leaving my home, my family, my bed for 11 months with only a backpack on my back. That’s crazy! What can I say though. When God calls you to do something how can you say no. I know I will see my parents again but it will be hard. I know I will be tested every step of the way, but I know I will come out of this as a new and better person.
I’m so excited at the same time! I know it’s an adventure of a lifetime. I will get the chance to go to places I never imagined I would go. Help and meet people I never imagined I would meet. Travel around the US with people I met less than a month ago. I will see God in a whole new light.I can honestly say that I have never been so excited in my life.
For years I have felt a calling to go on a mission trip but I never found a trip that felt like the right one. I knew the second I found out about the world race that I was meant to go. The only thing stopping me from going was my own doubt. The doubt whether I could raise $15,000. The doubt that I had the strength to leave everything behind to help the less fortunate. The doubt that I was not good enough to go. I kept hearing God in my ear saying: I will help you get to the 15,000, I will give you the means to get through the year, I will cast aside all the doubt that you are not good enough because you are good enough!
I know that God has supplied me with army of supporters. I know that God has put me on a team that will push me to be a better person. A team that will help me break down the wall that wont let anyone in. The voice in my head that keeps saying I am not good enough. All of that will be gone.
The driving factor is the fact that I will be helping and touching so many lives. From a very young age my parents have told me to always help the people who have fewer than I do.
Wow. I leave in less than two months… that’s crazy.
