T-4 Days

It's been a busy few weeks.  I've been doing a lot to get ready to leave.  Nobody wants to hear about my last few days at work, it'd be a really boring story, but half of last week and the first part of this week I went on a last road trip to see some family and friends as well as meet with a couple of congregations to raise support. It was a great trip, met some really awesome people and got to see some of the best people in the world right before I leave.  But now it's time to pack.  I've always waited until the last day to pack and my thought has been, why change now?  It's always worked sooo well BUT, it's a little different this time.  I've got to decide what I need to take with me, I'm a guy so it's not an elaborate thought process, what I need to box up annnnddddddd then do it!  So I'm getting a head start today and since I am sitting here typing you can guess how far I've actually gotten with this whole packing early plan.

But really it isn't packing early.  I'm leaving October 1st, yea that's tuesday...TUESDAY!!  As in 4 days!  Plus there are things to do between now and then that have nothing to do with packing.  But this is going to happen....as soon as I get done blogging....so here I go.....to pack a little more... right now....bye bye.....oh wait I have a story first.

Ok the other day I was talking with some friends and there was one of those moments when someone says something and you immediately remember a few conversations you have had in the past with other people and you had totally forgotten about but someone sure hasn't.  So I was at Lipscomb a few years ago of course people are always asking you what you want to do with your life because hopefully by the time you are in your early 20's you have an idea what you want to do with your life.  I remember sitting with a few friends and we were just talking about that, about our majors and what we wanted to do and whether we could see each other doing that.  So I said that when I'm 25 I hope to be doing one of two things, either working as a full-time youth minister OR living and working abroad in the foreign mission field.  That's what I was telling everyone because that's what I wanted to do.  So we would talk to each other about our interest and what we hoped to do once we were where we wanted to be.  But to make a long story a little shorter, I left Lipscomb thinking a role in ministry might not be my place not because I didn't want it but because I hadn't yet graduated and there seems to be this idea that you can't ever do what you want unless you have a degree, and I didn't have a Bible degree.  After I left I even thought, well maybe I'll push that goal back.  By the age of 30 I want to be in ministry or in the mission field.  That goal eventually faded and I had forgot all about it, pressing on trying to see what else God had planned but apparently He hadn't forgotten.  I turn 26 in about 2 weeks.  I think I've said this before but a lot of things have happened in the last year that have led to this, things that tell me this is what God wants.  A few years ago I told him this is what I wanted and He started working.  I don't believe He would have made this all happen if He didn't want this too.  We just always have to trust in Him, always have a desire to serve Him and he will use you when He is ready.  Remember that when you ask something of Him, He just might do it.  He started putting things together, piece by piece to make this happen. I got chill bumps the other day when I remembered those conversations that had escaped my mind some time ago.  But He hadn't forgotten

He has formed a team, a great team.  A team of people who have a desire to see great work done in Mololoa, a team of people who have faith in Him the orchestrater of all of this and faith in me to do everything I can to make a difference for His Kingdom.  I hadn't really thought a lot about this until just the other day but everyone that has given to allow me to move to Tegucigalpa haven't given just because they love the work being done in Mololoa and know that more help is needed.  You've also given because you believe in me, you trust me, you want to see me do what you know I love.  I can't say thank you enough.  It's humbling to know that one reason so many of you have given and made this possible is because you love me.  Just know that I love each one of you as well and I can't wait to tell you all about it.  As most of you know, where I go good stories will follow.  Or rather shower heads that catch fire, or scorpions that bite you, or THE BUS LEAVING YOU AT A YOUR WORK SITE TO GO EAT LUNCH!!! They make for good stories...eventually.  But anyways, THANK YOU!! All of you for making this happen.  It's going to be amazing!!!  

.....I guess I'll get back to packing now.....