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

It all started back in August. Through Young Life, I was able to do a month long volunteering job at a camp, in New York. While I was there, I had a lot of fun seeing how people were getting changed weekly, not only campers, but also the people I was working with. Every day we would get up, have a group devotional, then go out amongst the camp and have our own quiet times. I saw people around me getting more and more excited about doing work, and they were also getting closer to God. This got me excited and as a result became happier to do work.

However, this was only for a month and after I got back, into my school routine, I found it a lot harder to stick with the routine I had gotten from camp. I eventually stopped making time to read my bible, and prayed when I felt like I needed to. It created a void between me and God and I realized what was happening. I soon lost my work ethic, which I had gained while working that month, and so I fell back in to my routine of barely passing my classes in school, and settling for the least.

Then in December my dad told me that this wouldn't work, that I wasn't really ready to go to college, which I totally agreed with, he then proceeded to tell me about a program that I could do that would send me anywhere in the world and I would help others out. I immediately began to remember what it was like during that month, and I realized that this was an opportunity for me to get grounded in God. I told him I would pray about it, and truly did, though I didn't have to pray to hard before I realized that this was what God wanted me to do, and that he had spoken through my father to me.

This is how I was called to this mission.