How I Was Called to the Mission Field

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We were asked to write a blog about how we were called to
this mission trip. Here is my story…

As some of you may have read in my support letter, I
had planned to go to New Tribes Bible Institute right after high school,
learn how to be a missionary and then go out to which ever country God called
me to. But those obviously weren’t God’s plans. This story may sound a little
bit crazy but I guess you would have to be me to understand it. God tends to
speak to me in some unusual ways.

One day back in June I was at home alone for almost the
whole day. I had no plans and nothing left on my “to do” list so I decided it
would be a great idea to spend a whole day in prayer. I hadn’t been praying for
too long when God put a crazy thought in my head. He kept telling me, “You have
a big decision to make” but I wasn’t quite sure what this decision was. I
prayed about it and asked God to reveal this decision to me and He replied
with, “You need to figure out what you are going to do after high school.” Of
course I knew He really meant, “You need to figure out what I want you to do
after high school.” Haha! After hearing this I have to admit, I was a little
bit unhappy since I thought I had everything nice and planed out. I sat and
listened some more and decided to go out in my back yard because I kept getting
distracted by things like the giant map on my wall and the computer. After no
more than five minutes of listening I felt that I should look to the roof of my
house. The first thing I saw was our satellite dish pointing to the southwest
and immediately thought, Central America. Like
I said this story is a bit weird and might sound a little crazy to people other
than me but its how God spoke to me.

I continued listening and couldn’t get my mind off of Central America. Eventually I went back inside and
decided to look up some trips to Central America for about a year and what do
you know, AIM offers a trip to Nicaragua
for nine months! So of course I prayed about it and looked up some other trips
but I never really got a definite answer. I asked God to reveal His plans to me
before I got back from the Philippines
because I needed to know whether I would be applying for college when I go back
or if I was applying for a mission trip.

One day while at training camp for the Philippines trip, one of the serve crew members
and leaders of my last year’s trip to Peru told me he saw a vision of me
standing in a field preaching the gospel with a hat on. For some reason when he
said that I just automatically thought of Nicaragua. Once again, I know it
completely sounds crazy but that’s what happened. I continued praying about it
and God kept giving me little tid-bits of conformation along the way. One
morning, as I was having a quiet time on the balcony of our house in the Philippines, Nicaragua came on my heart once
again. But this time it was different. I wasn’t asking questions. For some
reason I just had this peace and I just knew God was telling me at that moment
to go. God used such a soft voice but it was so powerful. God had never given
me peace like that before. It was strange but I decided it was best to obey. So
I got home, signed up, sent out support letters and here I am, on my way to a
crazy journey to Nicaragua
for nine months. Pray for me.