About Me

(Me in Turkey, summer 2012)
 

My name is Emily and at the start of this journey I am twenty-one years young. I’m a native Texan originally from the hill country north of San Antonio, but for the past three years or so I’ve been attending the University of Texas at Austin. I’m graduating in December 2012 with B.A.’s in Religious Studies and History.

 

I have a mom, dad, and a younger sister named Lilia. The above picture is of the Peterson family on Thanksgiving Day 2010. 
  

 

I started following Jesus when I was about eleven years old. Almost as soon as I became a Christian I’ve been regularly going on mission trips. 

(The Houston Project, circa 2005?)

After high school I finally had the opportuniy to go abroad for mission work. Just a few weeks after graduation, I Ieft for the Amazon Jungle of Peru. There I spent a month living in a hammock, floating down the Amazon River, and going hut-to-hut telling people about Jesus.  

   
   

The summer following my freshman year of college I spent two months in India. I lived with a team of eighteen women and together we worked with women and children in the slums of southwestern India. That summer was so extraordinarily challenging, and it’s still affecting the way I live my life. 

    

In Austin I’ve been blessed with an amazing community of friends and fellow believers. These people have made life so enjoyable and it will be a real challenge to be apart from them for a year.

 

   

The lovely ladies of L.I.F.E., my discipleship group (minus our fearless leader)

 

This is such a brief overview of my life, and it barely skims the surface of who I am and how I got to be this way. If you want to know me more, then please feel free to shoot me an email or keep skimming through my blog!