Alright so as everyone knows I went to training camp….well if you read my last blog you know I went to training camp. While there I made many good friends and some new family. Then olympics night came, and the challenge was put forth….it was a meat eating contest, and as everyone who know me will understand I am a meatetarian (it’s a personal choice). The only problem was the hot dogs.
I had to eat 5 hot dogs as fast as I could and as you know I do not eat hot dogs, they are gross and after having seen them made I chose a hot dog free life. The other problem is I am too competitive so I could not back down. In the end after I had come out of the sleep I had to go into to actually eat the hot dog I had found that I had won the hot dog eating contest. Everyone was cheering and it felt good but no one really knew how much of a victory that was for me.
In life God sometimes asks us to do things that seem uncomfortable to us, and to other people it may seem easy. That is no reason not to give your best and give all things unto God, even something so simple as eating hot dogs, to something as hard as traveling around the world for 11 months and living a life of Sacrifice for God.
This next year is going to be hard, and there will be times when I will probably want to quit, or others might want to quit. The thing that brought me through that horrid hot dog experience and saw me through to the finish was my team mates. I know there are going to be hard times and there will be amazing awesome God moments that will make all those hard times seem like nothing and that is why I will persevere.
I know this one is a little long Allison so I will close by saying that I want all my friends and family to be able to be a part of this. How you can do that is by supporting me in several ways. The first is through prayer support, I can never have too much of that. The second is through writing little responses to my blogs and let me know you are following and you are excited about the things that God is doing through me and my team. The last way is through financial support, I still have $9585 American left to raise. I know that God has called me for this time and this place and I want you all to be with me. God bless and goodnight…
