This is it!

About a month ago, I applied to go on a medical mission trip to Guatemala for six weeks this summer! I find out in exactly ONE month from TODAY if I get to go! I am sooooo excited and I just cannot wait to see what God does through this experience. I just can't believe everything that has happened in my life to get me to this point. Looking back there are so many things that God has done, so many changes that he has made, to bring me to this point.It is truly amazing.


I believe God planted the seed for missions in my heart a long long time ago. As a kid, I never really minded being away from home (or at least I don't remember minding much..maybe just once or twice). And I remember at 13 years old I could not wait to go on my first mission trip out of the country! Who knew that at 13 that God would capture my heart and take me on a journey that would lead me here?! He's just SO COOL!


When I was little, probably up until early highschool, I wanted to go to Nashville and be a singer ( I mean come on, I would have blown little taytay out of the water..jk) As you can see, I did not go to Nashville and have no desire to do that anymore..I mean I sing enough as it is..I don't think that needs to be my job :)..So by the end of high school, I thought I wanted to be a teacher. I applied to The University of Alabama in the Colllege of Education. I went to visit the campus one day on one of those tours and something just didn't feel right about it. Education just wasn't the fit for me. My second choice that day was the College of HES (Human Environmental Sciences) and I got paired with an ambassador who was a Child Life major..I. WAS. HOOKED. I also met the fabulous KC and other great faculty and staff that made me feel right at home. This was the perfect fit for me..at least at that time in my life. My freshman year was wonderful, I built relationships with the faculty and really felt at home, but there was something else, something missing that I couldn't quite put my finger on. I REALLY wanted to do Child Life because of my past and all the medical issues I had and miracles God worked in my life. I wanted to share the hope he gave me with other families and children. I don't really know why, but I started researching nursing. I had stayed away from this because 1. I LOATHED chemistry and 2. It's what my mom did and I wanted to do what I wanted to do. But for some reason, it just kept popping up in my mind. At the time I decided it was because of job security and if I got tired of working with kids, I could always do something different...now, I'm pretty sure God had something more in mind. I officially changed my major the summer after my freshman year, and let's be honest, sometimes I wonder what I was thinking!.. but then I remember, it's not what I'm thinking, it's what God's doing. That spring Julie Wheetley came and talked to UCM about a mission trip called the MET program through Health Talents International. I knew that I couldn't go that summer, because I would be taking classes, but I REALLY wanted to go the next summer, which is now this summer, which is CRAZY! This is a trip where I will be using my skills as a nurse (or nursing student :) ) to help people and to get to know them, to pray with them, and to show them the love of Jesus.

I believe that God planted the seed for mission work in me a long time ago, He brought me down a path of lots of changes each time helping me build relationships that would be so very encouraging in helping me make this decision, to follow him. What an amazing God we serve!

I'll try to keep this as updated as much possible with what God is doing through this new adventure in my life! I'm super excited!

Love,

Liz