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A Long Time Coming!

Posted on Saturday, June 1, 2019

It has been a long journey to finally reach this point, but I am officially going to Mexico City this fall to serve as a missionary teacher for the next two years! I’m now back in Boston after my week-long training in Minneapolis, as I launch into full-time support raising over the summer. This past week has felt like a breath of fresh air as I’ve spent nearly every waking moment with nine other 20-somethings who are just as passionate as I am about participating in God’s global work. It has been amazing to hear everyone’s unique stories about where they are going, what they will be doing in that country, and how God has led them to missions. Even though my training is over, I still can’t believe that I’m actually going to Mexico. Being a missionary in Mexico City is something that has been on my heart for the past several years. I had applied to GoCorps right before I graduated college in 2016, because I loved the idea of utilizing my education and skills to serve overseas, but God made it clear that it was not the right timing yet. Since then, I have gone on week-long service trips to Mexico City with people from my church during the summers of 2017 and 2018. Each time I visited, I fell more in love with the city, the people, and the culture, and I felt a strange sense of home despite the fact that I was in an unfamiliar environment.

At the same time, during the first couple of years after graduation, I wrestled with where God was leading me in my career path. I had tried on various roles, trying to figure out where I would best fit in this world. After a certain point, I realized that I wanted to work in education because I always enjoyed working with kids and wanted to help shape their future. However, I knew that my true passion lies in global missions, which is why I returned to the GoCorps website and started looking into opportunities to teach in Mexico City. As I explored opportunities and connected with various missionary teachers who were already on the field, God grew my heart for Mexico. For my last service trip in 2018, I decided to extend my stay in Mexico City by a week in order to visit a couple of schools, speak with the school staff, and connect with other missionaries. When I returned home to Boston, I felt so convicted that God wanted me to teach in Mexico City.

The past year has been a long waiting period of going through the application process, developing my teaching skills by working at a high school, and building relationships with people in my community. As painful as it was sometimes to wait on God’s timing over the past few years, I know that I wouldn’t have it any other way. In hindsight, I’m in awe of how God orchestrated every detail of my journey, bringing together different pieces of who I am and my experiences to reveal how I can participate in God’s global work.

Truthfully, if you had told me during my freshman year of college that this is where my life would end up after graduation, I would have looked at you like you had three heads. I never thought of myself as someone who could become a missionary, and yet, here I am. I hope that my story encourages you to be open to wherever God takes you on your journey, and that you would say yes to His invitation, whether or not it involves missions. I promise, whatever plans you can come up with for your life, God has something way better up His sleeve. So trust Him, and trust that His plans for you are good.

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