We were asked to write a blog about how we felt before leaving on this mission trip. Here is what I'm expecting...

 

Doing something like this trip is new to me. I've never been on that side of the world or been away from my house for a month, better yet 2 months! But I'm completely excited and cannot wait to see how God is going to work in my life. I pray that God will reveal himself to me like I've never seen before. As I've been praying for this trip, my teammates, the people we come in contact with, our leaders, my supporters, I truly have put this in His Hands and I am so thankful that He is who He is because I could NEVER do something like this by myself! Lately I've been trying to imagine what it's going to be like...traveling to Africa...with a bunch of people I don't know...crazy! And every once in a while someone will tell me something they've heard about Kenya recently or a random fact and it just makes me think more about it. Yet what I've realized is I can't prepare myself for this, I have no idea what it's going to be like over there and the only way I can be prepared is if I trust that God will take care of everything.

 

Something else I hope to better understand is what His Will is. What am I supposed to do with my life?! I'm freshman in college, although my definition of a "freshman" is taking a semester at a time either online or at Austin Community College because I wanted to take it slow the first year and then enter in at a 4 year university next Fall as a sophmore. And honestly, I just didn't really want to go "off" to college yet, it just didn't seem as important to me as it did to my parents. Although, I feel like I'm split in two pieces. I am so blessed to have both of  my wonderful parents supporting me in all that I do and helping me pay for college, even having that opportunity is something we need to be thankful for! I know having the college opportunity right infront of me is something that I should be expected to accept, but then there's the other side of me that says I need to do something way more important and worthwile with my life. Now, whatever that may be I'm leaving that up to God; whether it's future mission work, full-time ministry or whatever. It's something that I've been struggling with this past year and I only want to do what He wants me to do. So with all of my rambling on about that subject, I pray that God will lead me in the direction He wants me to be.

 

 

I'm excited and can't wait to see how everything works out!