As I go through the motions of my spring semester of my sophomore year of college, with midterms week, Greek sing with my sorority, 8am classes… it is all beginning to hit me that I wont be here for any of this next year. Life as I have known it these past two years, as an average college kid, is coming to an end and I am about to embark on a whole new chapter. I am still in awe that God has chosen me to serve for nine months all across the globe, to do what I am so passionate about and to live life completely dependent on him.
Nine months! That almost a whole year, away from friends and family, the comforts of home and what I know, not eating my favorite foods or watching my favorite shows… But thinking of what I get to gain from it is more than worth it!
6 Months and roughly 180 days away… How crazy is that?
Where I wont have a permanent home but I will call Thailand home for three months! Somewhere I had never even thought of till I came across a study abroad packet for it at the beginning of this school year and began to have a desire to visit there one day. Little did I know God placed the desire in my heart so I would actually get to SERVE there! Then home will be three months in South Africa! Africa! A place I have longed to travel to since I began doing mission work. A place where multiple people I know have done work in and fell in love. And my last home for three months in Nicaragua, Central America, an area where I never dreamed of going or had any real desire too. But now as I talk to my fellow team members, one who has lived there before, I can’t help to be ecstatic and ready to go experience and serve there, where I will spend my 21st birthday enriched in such an awesome culture with such an amazing group of people.
I don’t know what God was thinking when he planned all this out for me, and I have no idea what lies ahead, but I couldn’t be more excited and greatly blessed with the opportunity to go serve the nations and preach the Gospel.
“May He grant you according to your heart’s desire, And fulfill all your purpose” Psalms 20:4
