Growing up I always played doctor with my grandma. She was always the best patient and was always up to let me listen to her heart beat or check her reflexes. My dream was to become the greatest doctor ever, to help all the people who were hurting and to do amazing things. As I got older my mind changed as I found new interests. One day I wanted to be a teacher, for a couple of years I wanted to be a pediatrician, somedays I wanted to go to college other days I told myself I’d never step foot in a college class. By high school I found a love for the Lord and a love for mission work. I found a love for God’s people and a longing to help the people who were hurting. I’ve gone back and forth from not wanting to go to college to wanting to go to college. From choosing a college and then months, even weeks later realizing that’s actually not where I need to go. In the past year I’ve found a love for helping people with their problems and I thought that I would turn to the direction of going to college for Psychology and Counseling. I’ve found a love for learning sign language and I wanted to learn sign language and go out into the world and teach sign language. Along with that I have had a heart for Uganda for over a year, yet after getting to Portoviejo I feel the Lord calling me back here after the race. With all of the possibilities running through my mind of the direction that I could choose I know one thing. The Lord has called me to a long term missionary. He’s called me to love on people around the world and to be a constant for people who don’t have one. He’s called me to love not only the people who are easy to love, but those who are hard to love. I’ve realized that I need to start doing what the Lord wants me to do instead of what the normal is or what I think everyone else wants me to do. Life is confusing and I’ll never know what is to come next but I do know that the Lord has a perfect plan for my life and that no matter what I choose the Lord will use it to His Glory.
