What in the world am I doing?

So... here I am preparing to spend 53 days in Mexico for the summer. Or as my mom might prefer to think of it... 7 and a half weeks. The whole idea to take on a summer-long adventure started when I got back from a month-long mission trip to Kenya last July. Later in the year I started looking online for long-term missionaries in spanish speaking countries. It was a long process... very long. I spent hours searching for missionary families and emailing them. Basically, I asked then if they would be interested in having me as a intern for the summer. I explained that I felt a calling to spent the rest of my life as a long term missionary, and wanted to learn more about life as a missionary, rather than participating in a short-term mission trip. I also was trying to cut down on the cost, and more importantly hoping to become fluent by being immersed in a spanish-speaking country.

After months of emailing, probably over 100 families, I only had two families that were interested. I then found the Mills family from North Carolina, who is serving in the states of Chiapas and Tabasco in Southern Mexico. We got to emailing and things began to fall in place. I knew that this was the family. They have two teenage daughters and they have week-long mission groups from their hometown come down through out the summer.

Finally, in March, I knew where I was headed to, and in May I bought my plane ticket. I learned that everything is on God's time. I mean, I thought back in December that I would find a family, or couple, and my plane ticket would be purchased by maybe January. That's okay though... it all worked out... I just had to trust God.

Through out the months my mom has been SO supportive of me doing this. She has given me encouragement, prayers and ideas. I am so grateful for her, and she is SO brave to let me travel so far away, not only last summer, but this summer as well. I know she will miss me... so please take care of her for me while I am gone.

I am really excited for this opportunity. As far as I know I will be doing what the different mission groups that come down do. This could include construction, village ministries, or translating for the different medical teams. I can't describe my excitement, and I am ready to challenge myself.

I just want to learn, and serve and love.

11 days until I leave.

P.S. check out the Mills family blog... http://millsfamilymission.blogspot.com
or their website, which has a map of where I am headed, which is
http://millsfamilymission.org

Grace and Peace!