HUNGRY

This whole past year has been an amazing experience. I feel like God has let me experience a hunger in my heart and in my spirit more than ever before! Its always interesting when God will give you a desire to do something that seems right but then he makes you wait. This is what the whole past 2 months since the earthquake in Haiti has felt like. I've wanted to go ever since my dad (yay little daddy and big daddy!) left on January 13th. It's been on my family's heart and mind ever since it happened.

For the 5 weeks my dad was in Haiti my mom was emailing, researching and calling almost non-stop to either keep my dad or keep the world informed. As a family we prayed more frequently during that period than any time I can remember. During about the third week of Dad being gone, my mom and I received word that we would have a great chance to go and stay with my Dad, for at least 2 weeks if not more. Now that'll make you hungry :) So Mom and I were just praying and asking (almost begging) God to let us go... and then a week later we find out that it wasn't going to work out at the time. Now this is how I am convinced that God has a sense of humor. My dad got back from Haiti on a Tuesday, and on Wednesday Mom found out that she was leaving on Friday!

During this whole time I really felt that I should graduate high school a trimester early, because I felt that with that I would be able to go to Haiti for a much longer time than two weeks. So I'm praying and asking God what he wanted me to do, and I kept hearing YWAM... Haiti... YWAM... Haiti. God just kept making me hungry to seek him. So then, I emailed the peeps at YWAM base in St. Marc, Haiti, and they strongly advised that I trained at a different location... haha I wonder why? (maybe the earthquake kinda "shook" them up a little bit :)

So then, after much research on the internet and word of mouth of experienced people, I found an awesome base in Kona, Hawaii. When I found the class named Call2All I felt my heart and the angels around me sing! It totally described the passions that God has given me: to pray, to see the message of Jesus be carried to the farthest reaches of the earth, to experience a spirit-led life, to cultivate intimacy with Jesus, and and to surrender to God's will in all parts of my life. After a couple weeks of working on the application, getting reference forms and getting health tests, I finally got in! I'm really thankful to John Colter, Jordan Rudinsky and Samra Spear for helping me out with all of that! And God for informing the people making the decision that it was in his plan too!

I still haven't had God's promise of going to Haiti with YWAM fulfilled yet... but I know that the hungrier I get for God to work the sweeter it will taste when he does!