Hey y’all! In my bio, I wrote details in hopes that you could form an idea of WHO I AM and also WHY I AM DOING the World Race Gap Year this year. Thanks for reading!
I am a very sociable person who loves to talk to people, meet new people, laugh, learn, worship, and TEACH. I also love to travel and most definitely LOVE to try new and exciting things. I love to explore and just create different life adventures for myself. Truthfully, I have always been so inspired by missionaries since a very young age and it makes sense considering my personality contains very helpful tools to being a missionary for the Lord.
I graduated in June of 2021 and have been at home this first year of college. I initially planned to attend Louisiana State in the Fall of 2021 but ended up deciding that I just wasn’t ready. My heart didn’t feel like it was there. I didn’t feel like this was something that was pulling me in the right direction, so I decided to stay at home, evidently growing in many ways, and frankly saving me a LOT of money. I attend a community college 1 min away from my house. I have always been so indecisive with my future and decided that this past year I would stay home to hopefully get some clarity for what I would want to do, who I would want to be, and how I would achieve that.
During this past year I had so much time to realize how lacking my faith and my relationship with the Lord was. I didn’t have friends, or sports, or social factors distracting me from realizing how distant Jesus and I had gotten. It was a great time for me to start prioritizing Him in my life again. I was always so busy with school and sports during high school, that I let my faith slip away from me without even realizing it. I started attending a new church that gave me this new feeling of hope with my relationship with the Lord. It gave me a sense of recollection, that we DO serve a merciful God who loves us so much. Who forgives our faults when we have a realization like I had, revealing I didn’t put Him first.
During the new year of 2022 around January, I had started to think about my next year of college. I had gotten into 4 schools and was still SO indecisive on where I wanted to go. I had never gotten a feeling of ease when thinking about attending any of these universities. During a service one Sunday, my Pastor was speaking about people of the church having a “yes” on their heart to do works for the Lord. For some reason that I wasn’t aware about at the time, the message really touched me personally. I thought “I have always had a YES on my heart” but I could never figure out what that yes was in answer to. The next day I started researching mission trips for young adults because that’s just what popped into my head. The World Race popped up and I was immediately inspired. I had applied and prayed. I left the decision to God. After that, I would continuously go to the alter and pray to the Lord and ask if this was something that He really had in store for me. I am a very indecisive person but the answer about this was always YES. I even tried to ask the Lord “Are you sure?” Because I wasn’t sure if it was just in my head.. the answer was always yes. When I was accepted into the World Race Gap Year, I knew it was my final YES. My final confirmation that this is what He wanted me to do. And I felt very content with that. I felt very sure of myself in that moment, for the first time in my life.
The Lord works miracles. He has a plan. I was trying to make my own plan in life, which is why I was always so hesitant. I never trusted myself to make the right decisions, and now I know why. I was making them for me and not for Him. He has the answers, you just have to listen to them. I pray that you enjoyed reading about me and decide to support me in my journey with furthering the gospel and embracing the kingdom of the Lord.
