As of October 14, I am officially going on the World Race Gap year. I'm more than thrilled, to join in on this amazing adventure. I've always felt the call to travel to other countries to help and share God's word. I wasn't aware how seriously God wanted me to do this missionary work, until I was reading Acts 3 and the Lord put a vision in my head of me teaching to a huge group. The Lord moved several large mountains to ensure that nothing could obscure the path he chose for me. Its amazing to look back and see how all those seemingly small, unimportant pieces were moved and were actually huge, monumental blinders. This is most definitely a path I would not have chosen for myself, because let's be honest here, no teenager or young adult ever actually plans on running away to another continent for nine months. The thing that scares many people away is the fear of loneliness. However, God saw a path for me and it seems only appropriate if I follow the path closely. I do still get those questions that so many missionaries receive. Those "Do you know how hard its going to be?" "Aren't you going to miss your family?" "Why would you give up nine months when you could just do college?" These questions at first did throw me back and caused a lot of doubt. However, I had to recollect myself and remember how much the Lord actually moved for me to do this. How often he told me that this was part of my future. So I eventually started to learn the answer to all these questions can simply be summarize as "The Lord will take care of it". At some point I will post another blog, explaining my story and how I got to this point, but for now I just wanted to post the acceptance and some thoughts behind it. Like I said I'm more than thrilled for this adventure and can't wait until it starts. Plus my new family awaits and I can't wait until the day I get to know each and every member of this new family. This is a new chapter and it might just be the most promising.