Long Overdue Blog Part 1

Hey Reader!

I know I haven’t been posting much on here. If you know me, you probably know I am not the “writing” kinda person. So trying to keep my blog up-dated is going to be a challenge for me. But I promise to at least write something once a month.

I just wanted to share with you a little of what has been happening these past few months.

I started my WR journey on September 7th, when I officially committed to doing the World Race. This was a scary thing for me. I really had no idea how I was going to do this or be able to raise the money needed. I’m a Honduran young lady who grew up with missionaries. Honestly, I was like who am I going to ask for financial support when most of the people I know are trying to raise their own financial support? That day I took a big step of faith and committed to this crazy journey.

At that time I had committed to doing a route called “The Spanish Route.” At that time I thought, “Lord, this is the perfect route for me. I won’t have to apply for any extra visas outside of the US visa (for training and ministry in Puerto Rico). I am familiar with the Latin culture and language. This is Perfect!!” The donations started coming in. People were excited for me because I wouldn’t be going to just any Latin America countries but also MINE (Honduras). Things were looking pretty good!

As you know (or you might not know) but it’s VERY hard to get a US visa. With so many Latin migrating illegally to the US it’s becoming very hard to get a US visa. I had already tried to get a visa previously for a friend’s wedding and was denied. So, having been denied once I tried again and guess what – Yep! Got denied again. At this point, I could not understand why God had shut this door when I knew God wanted me to do the World Race. I was ready to just stop everything and just keep going with my “secure plan” but thanks to different people in my life, I began to understand that maybe God wanted me to do the WR but maybe not that particular Route.

On the Latin Route, I had some idea to what I was getting myself to. It was going to be “comfortable” it was definitively the easiest route. But of course sometimes (most of the time) our plans aren’t God’s plan.

After much prayer and guidance from different people in my life I decided to change my Route to a later one in July 2014 (Route 2) and retry this whole visa thing again.

So in early March I went to the US embassy leaving everything in God’s hand and yes, a little nervous of course. 🙂 As my turn was coming up I started praying again and went up to my interview trusting God’s answer. After a lot of detailed questions about my trip the guy tells me he is giving me a 3 entry visa. I was shocked (for some crazy reason LOL) and the only thing that came out was a pitiful “Ok” and starred at him as he explained how i needed to pick up my visa, then I walked away.

Wait, What???

I never even thanked the guy!!! I was just tooo shocked! Then it hit me.

I am am about to leave everything I know, college, friends, work, house and leave. I am leaving to travel to 11 different countries and cultures and languages!!!

Lord, What have I gotten my self into??

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I am so honored and thankful that God has given me this great opportunity to serve Him in this unique way with the World Race. I can not express how thankful and grateful I am to have people like you in my life. Thank you for those who have supported me so far.