May 11

Hey, Thanks for taking the time to read my blog. I have never done anything like this before but I thought it would be a really good opportunity to give it a try. This will allow for everyone to stay connected with me while I am on my mission trip this summer.

Go Now that is what we are called to do. “Then Jesus came to them and said, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.’" Matthew 28:18-20

I have wanted to do a mission trip through Go Now since my freshman year of College now that I will be a senior next semester I decided it would be a good time to GO. At first I wasn’t sure where I felt like I was supposed to go. I read through the list of locations and was trying to decide if I should go somewhere within the states or outside the country. I went through the list the first time and I narrowed it down and really just prayed about what I should do. I originally narrowed it down to one specific one. I prayed about it and something didn’t feel right. I didn’t want to pick a trip because it was something I wanted to do I wanted to make sure it was God’s will for me to go on the trip. So I decided that I would just go through the interview and have them place me where I belonged. This is when I first realized if I didn’t learn anything else this would be the summer I would learn to become flexible.

Discovery Weekend is a designed to be a weekend for all of the student missionaries interested in trips to come together and go through an interview process and make a final decision on what trips they would like to go on. This year God had a different plan for us. We were all supposed to meet in Dallas but this is the weekend that they got 13+ inches of snow. SFA along with about 5 other schools all drove to Tyler for a Discovery Day instead.

After I went through the interview process it took about a week to get the results back. I was excited to see that the trip they picked for me was in my original top 5. Lighthouse Missions in Greeley, Colorado.

I was originally supposed to leave on June 1st and my schedule has already changed again. I will now be flying out from Austin at 7:10 on May 26th and returning on the 7th of August.