So this just isn’t about me, it’s about Him too. What He’s doing through me. Carlos. A guy who’s done trying to figure things out and is just going to do what God wants him to do. It just so happens that He wants me to go on an 11 month missions trip to 11 different countries, and I’m okay with that. Yeah I know, it sounds crazy. Believe me when I started 2014 an 11 month missions trip was the last thing I thought I was going to do. I originally had a goal to do one missions trip. And then I ended up doing two. And then I got called to Missions. Then I got accepted into the World Race. Wait, what?! That’s exactly why I’m done trying to plan all these steps out for myself in life because God obviously has other plans in mind. To go to the most foreign countries, He picked the guy whose three nationalities of Spanish but doesn’t speak a lick of Spanish. (Let the mocking begin.) No biggie, I got this! <<<Sarcasm
In reality God’s got this. I put my worries and troubles on Him. Or else I probably wouldn’t have got to where I am in life. So where am in life right now? Well I’m 22 living in Orlando, FL working full time for EA Sports as an On Site Customer Service Specialist. Just fancy for saying I do customer service not for the people that play the games but for the 600 people that make the games. It’s a pretty cool place to work at and I meet someone new each day. They all have different accents because people work here from all over the world. I honestly can’t wait to be the person in a foreign country that has the accent to the people there.
Anyways back to me. I’m a huge people’s person. I think I remember when I got interviewed for The World Race I got asked what is something your passionate about. I’m pretty sure I said “People.”
I love meeting new people and getting to interact with them. I like figuring out people and what is the best way to communicate with them. Are they really high energy, or super mellow? Are they big talkers or quietly profound? I feel like it’s easy for me to get along with mostly anybody. I’m easy to read. If I’m not smiling something’s wrong with me. I probably just need a snack or a nap and I’m good to go. That’s real. Interacting with people is also a huge part role in ministry I play a part of.
I attend one of the greatest youth ministries in the nation, Mainstream OrlandOOOOOOOOO!
I’m a part of the pastoring team for our College ministry called The Voice, and yes we had that name before the show. There I head up our connections team. It’s for anyone who’s coming and looking to get connected whether it’s your second time or your eighty second time. It’s my role to help get people connected. Connected to either our various small groups or possibly taking the leap to leadership. I also lead a small group called All Sports Cadence. We get together every Friday night and play a different sport each week. I love the ministry I get to be a part of. Getting the privilege of being someone’s friend and eventually hearing their story is a passion of mine. The lives I’ve got be a part of and me a part of theirs is something I always carry with me. And along the way I’ve attained the greatest support group of friends that I’m so blessed to do life with.
Well let’s do some fun little facts about me:
-I’m Puerto Rican, Mexican, and Nicarguence
-I’ve lived in Florida for about 18 years now
-I work at a major gaming industry but not a big gamer
-I lead a sports group but don’t really watch sports
-I’m more into the fine arts: singing, dancing, acting, and art. Am I good at any of those things? Not so much but I appreciate them
-I come from a divorced family raised by an incredible mother
-My sister and I are 11 years apart.
-I randomly burst out into song just to be warned
-I love to laugh, and I can’t help how loud it is, sorry not sorry
-I’ve never really gone camping before so this should be interesting
-My only out of the country missions trip has been to Cuba where I go called to missions
-Apparently I own a lot of blue and gray clothes but I’ve been mixing it up lately
-And I get mistaken for Zayn from One Direction even though he hasn’t had blonde in hair for at least two years
Well I feel like this is just the pre-stages of getting to know me. I hope you subscribe to my blog and get to know me further.
I’m embarking on a life changing experience that will break me, reaarange me, and piece me to be a new man of God I never thought I could ever be. I honestly don’t have a clue as to what God is going to do over the next months leading up to this and the year I’ll be gone but that’s the most exciting part about all this. I get to pursue God in a way that is way out of my comfort zone. Face unfamiliar tests and challenges that await day in and day out. A verse always comes to mind when I think of all that’s ahead and it’s been one I turn to find rest.
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door shall be opened.” Matthew 7:7-8
Thank you for reading and I ask even if you choose not to subscribe but to keep me in your prayers during all this. That my squad and I would be stretched way past any visible horizon. God bless.
