Hello beautiful friends! So excited to share this journey with you! Missions have been on my heart for years and years but I was never ready to be BOLD and jump in faith..until now, that is! It was about eight months ago that I committed to being obedient to the Lord and pursuing what He so clearly has put on my heart. In my head, it looked a lot more like a short-term trip, two or three months max in one specific country but nope! Of course the Lord was going to show up and wreck my perspective and tell me to join an 11-month missions trip. And praise Jesus he did because I couldn’t be more excited for this journey. I know that I am going to be stretched, grown, and forced outside my comfort zone time and time again during this year but I know these challenges are going to fine-tune my heart and soul and for that I say game on. These past few months have been some difficult ones for me mentally and I started feeling so discouraged about the trip and second guessing everything. But Our Father is so so good and even in those low moments He has reminded me of my WHY and stirred that passion inside me once again. He has shown up in so many ways for me this past week alone and made Himself known in my life. Loving on me and blessing me in the sweetest ways possible and bringing encouragement and hope in a time full of stress and anxiety. I was chatting with a mentor of mine about the trip and she pointed out that I am going to see first hand the effects of the world coming out of this pandemic and I will experience poverty, hunger and a deep fear in so many lives like never before. But with that I get to go love these people so fiercely and bring them the hope of Jesus and I cannot express how much that ignites my soul. So while I could be going back to school to further my education or focus on settling down and finding a family at my age, I chose to go against the grain. To cross nations to discover my identity in Christ and love hard, even if for the one. Because Jesus would leave the ninety-nine for the one in a heart beat. I am so grateful for this opportunity and cannot wait to continue to share with you all! Thank you for being a part of my story!! 🙂
