For as long as I can remember I have always wanted to travel.
At age thirteen I got to travel to England, Ireland, and WALES for a month long education trip. That was my first overseas travel and first trip over a week that I went without my parents. Eye opening to the different cultures around me and how differently they thought.
Since then I always wanted to travel to even more countries and befriend people who thought differently than me and who came from different cultures.
At the age of fourteen I gave my heart completely to God at summer camp full well knowing that He wanted me to got to different nations. He started really placing within me desires for different places.
About the same age I really became interested in India. Because of my interest, my friends used to joke on me that I would marry an Indian man named Hadgi who would own a SevenEleven. That never bothered me, cause I knew that someday I would go to India, and a lot more places.
Fast Forward to the age of nineteen, in aftershock of a break up from a destructive relationship and a lot of painful memories later, I was broken.
I had come out of a relationship with a young man who I had shared my heart with about other nations, I should have taken a red flag when he showed no interest in being a missionary. But I didn't and I let him crush the dreams of travel and sharing my faith with those around me.
God started really working on me, reviving the dreams that I had pushed down. He started calling forth the true desires of my heart.
Again I found the desires of other nations and cultures rising up within me as I connected with a church full of life and the Holy Spirit. They are very connected to churches around the world. This only fed my God given desire! It was like a small fire that begin spreading like a wild fire.
I got the chance to go one my first mission oriented trip at the age of twenty as a youth leader to Brasil! Eu Amo Brasil! (aka I love Brasil)! It was amazing and it only fueled my desire like WOAH!
Fast forward again to twenty one and you will find me working and going to school…empty.
Finishing a nurse aide course, I realized that I am not sure if I really wanted to continue pursuing nursing or any degree that is being offered at my local community college. I just didn't know where I wanted to go.
My friend, who wanted to do the World Race, posts a video from a World Racer on the field. SPARK!
Something ignited in me, this is what I desired!
I began seeking God and praying that He would show me if this was in His plans.
Prophetic words and scripture were confirming one after another that this was in His plans, that this is what He wanted me to do.
I signed up! Trusted Him!
Now here I am typing about how I got here…funny how life works sometimes.
Now I am trusting He will finish this good work He has started in me!
