Hi everyone! I am super excited about my first blog post. I’ve put quite a bit of thought into this one. I want it to answer most of the questions my family and friends have about this opportunity and why/how I was brought to the World Race. So, my plan for after graduating high school was pretty average. I would go to community college for 2 years and then take me time off to travel or do a mission trip of some kind. However, as you can all see, that wasn’t the plan for me at the time. I went to Blinn College in Bryan Texas, thinking it was gonna be so awesome, I would meet my roommates and make a ton of new friends from church. Little did I know that my two roommates had already known roomed with each other from their previous year at Texas A&M. So I basically walked in feeling like an outsider into my home all the time. The church I attended was super awesome but they didn’t reach out to new people very much. I sat in the back and listened and watched by myself for many weeks, not that I had any problem with that. I choose to believe that experience helped me lean on God even more. I was witnessing the growth in my relationship with God a lot. There was a huge feeling of not being where God was intending me to be. About halfway through the semester, my dad helped me buy a brand new car with the help of a family member. I had that for 2 weeks, and then something happened that I was not anticipating. I totaled the brand new car that my family helped me get with their hard earned money and their time. I spent a great deal of time regretting and thinking that I had failed. However, when I think back to this time I understand what God was teaching and showing me. I wasn’t meant to finance a car for 5 years at that time. I was meant to share the gospel with people and take the love of Jesus to all nations. I learned through that situation, that God sees what we can’t and God sets us up to succeed, and many times we fail to take the chances he gives us because we think its too hard. But I think we need to be more willing to do the crazy things or the things we think are unreachable. That is just a small reason why I am going on the Race. I am going to be writing about all the ways God directed me here in future blogs, so you are going to want to be subscribed or on my email list! thank yall for reading my first blog post and if you are able to support financially, any and all donations are appreciated! You can make a tax-deductible donation at any time through my blog. And if you are unable to help financially, please add me to your prayer list. Thank y’all!
