We were asked to write a blog about what we expected on our mission trip…
This is a hard blog for me to write because I’m not really sure what to expect! I definitely expect to be challenged. I know that being away from home for 11 months will be extremely difficult for me because I get very homesick! I definitely expect to miss my family and friends terribly. I also expect to be challenged when I’m forced to live without the everyday comforts that I’ve been so used to here. I’ll probably miss having the food I want anytime I want…. I’m kind of a picky eater so I’m a little worried about that haha.
I know that this trip is going to challenge me in every possible way…. but that’s what I want! I expect for God to completely change my life. To change what I value and what my heart is really chasing after. I expect to experience a love like I’ve never known before and to love people more than I ever have. I expect to come back here with a new family… to experience real community with believers. I’m excited to do this before I settle into a routine here in America. I know that if I got a job right after I graduate that I might just be stuck in that routine forever. I want to value people more than money. I want God’s priorities to be my priorities. I want my heart to be chasing after what His heart is. I know the only way to do that is to get away from the comforts I’ve settled into here….
“I tell you the truth,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age (homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields- and with them, persecutions) and in the age to come, eternal life.” Mark 10:29-30
