Hey there!! My name is Derek Daniel Sisneros, and I just want to thank you in advance for joining me on this incredible adventure God is taking me.
Here is a little bit about me!!
(By the way writing about yourself is super hard, and I get super distracted when telling people stories, but I will come back to the point)
I gave my life to Christ just a little over 4 (updated) years ago, was the best thing I ever did. The day I choose to make a public profession of my faith was probably the biggest step I ever did, its still makes me cry to this day looking back at that moment. I was finally home.
I did a little going up in Rock Springs, WY, were my Nana lives 🙂
I remember as a little child my mom introduced me to her as Phyllis, she knelt down and shook my hand and she said, “You will call me Nana” Ever since she has been my Nana.
(This is Nana with her grandson JJ, my best friends brother basically they are all my family too)
I left Rock Springs when I was about 14, and moved to Casper, WY, were I live now. This was a good change in my life because I had started to get into trouble. Though I still walked a pathless life, it soon became a path to Christ.
If my mom had not taken me to church as a youngster, I wouldn’t know this lovely lady, and ultimately know who Christ is!! I know you will read this so thank you mom for loving me enough to show me a better way to live my life, even though it took a while and a lot seed planting from God for me to surrender to Him.
(This is my mom and I when she graduated college)
I have two brothers and a sister that are awesome people that God has blessed me with to have in my family. Though I have never met my older brother Peter, I know he is a good father and husband.
(This is my beautiful sister, Tiffany, and my handsome brother Michael)
I am 24 (will be 25 in December). I currently am going to school for a BA in Communication at University of Wyoming at Casper, and in my third year.
I lived in Canada for the summer of 2013. This is where God started to stir up a huge passion for something that I had no idea what it was, I just knew I wanted to recklessly abandoned for Christ, whatever the cost.
It has been a couple of weeks now since I was accepted to The World Race. I don’t think it has hit me yet, but it will soon. I’m so excited to watch how I will be stretched, and how radically God will change me.
Sense I live in a way that when God puts something on my heart I usually listen, but this one really doesn’t make sense. I know what your thinking. It’s crazy to quit school for a year, and come back to finish (Why don’t you just wait a year). It’s crazy to leave everything behind you and live out of a backpack for a year (Where will you keep your stuff when you leave). It’s crazy to put everything on hold back home, while your gone for a year. I have gone through all of this in my brain, but He told me to go. So I must listen and go. God doesn’t call us to follow the status quo; He calls us to follow Him, whatever that might be. When I think about it I wouldn’t want to live any other way.
Yes, it’s crazy, but its crazy awesome!!
I just want to thank you for joining me through this journey!!!
