Wow, I can’t believe this is actually going to happen.
Before I know it, I’ll be on Mission. For 3 months.
Wow.
This may come as a surprise to some of you. Shoot, it came as a surprise to me too. Let me explain: A couple years ago my advisor told me I would be graduating a semester early (hallelujah). I’ve always known I wanted to go to Graduate school following getting my bachelors, but that means I’d have a semester gap between graduation and Grad school. During that in between time I knew I wanted to do something not in the U.S. This left me with 2 main options: I could find a cool biology internship somewhere abroad or I could go on a missions trip.
Knowing my options, I took some time to think through them. I researched programs and locations, talked to friends, and prayed. A lot. Because I knew that either way, this was going to cost a pretty penny.
One morning while the Word, almost a year later, the Lord made it suddenly clear in my mind that without a doubt that I was supposed to go on some type of missions trip this spring. I didn’t know anything beyond that, but I was excited. God had taken his step in confirming what I needed to do; now it was my turn to take some steps. I had to figure out where I was going.
More than anything I wanted to go back to Guatemala. I went there 3 years ago through Compassion International with my grandparents and I absolutely fell in love with the people, the culture, the landscape…it’s all wonderful and it left me aching to go back again, but for longer. Much longer.
As I was looking at trips for the Spring through World Race, I saw the one that was perfectly for me: a trip for 3 months to Nicaragua and Guatemala. I knew immediately that it was the one for me, not a doubt in my mind. I would get to go back to the country that captivated my heart and then fall in love with another.
So, consider it official folks: from January to April of 2020, I will be going to Nicaragua and Guatemala through World Race. I have no idea what the future holds or why the Lord has called me, a Biologist, to go on a missions trip.
All I know is that I’m eager to find out.
