ThE UnExPeCtEd

whats up guys, its been a min

and by a min I mean like 6 months. oops. its been a crazy six months tho and the Lord has not stopped blessing me throughout it. I finished my first year of college and I can honestly say it was the best year of my life. I always heard that the first year of college is rough and hard on everyone, and not going to lie it took its toll on me more times than I care to admit. I cried all the time, failed tests, and didn’t perform in the ways I would of liked. But the growth that happened to my heart was worth every single thing that I went through. THE LORD WAS WORKING. AND I AM A NEW PERSON BECAUSE OF IT. I’ve never had people love and care for my heart the way that the people I surrounded myself with did. I felt the love of Christ in every aspect that I could and did not expect the life changes that happened. I learned that you really just have to say, “ok God” and just let life happen. You take it and run with it and bless all the people with what the Lord put on your heart. Being scared and hesitant never got me anywhere in high school, and now I have seen the Lords faithfulness through jumping off the cliff and I NEVER WANT TO STOP JUMPING.

I recently went on my very first mission trip 

to Peru, and that is where I really saw the Lords faithfulness. My team got to do a lot of different things while we were serving in Peru, but I really think the host homes we got to stay in made the biggest impact on me. When we first signed up for the trip we were told that there would be 2-3 people in each host home, so we all weren’t that worried about it. When we arrived in Peru it had changed, and they put us all separately into host homes by ourselves. This terrified me at first because I was in a random country 3,000 miles away from home, having to stay in a host home with random people I didn’t know for 10 days. It was scary, and I was super hesitant about it. But let me tell you, the LORD WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS. Every night I got to sit down at the dinner table with this family, the parents didn’t speak English, but my  fifteen-year-old host sister did, and I got to pour into this families lives and talk to them about Jesus. One night, me and my host sister were sitting at the dinner table and we got on the subject of exes. All you people know this has been a touchy subject for me the last year of my life and I SAW THE LORDS FAITHFULLNESS AT THIS DINNER TABLE. I got to tell her about how I was able to seek the Lord through that struggle and how He worked in my life because of it. It was one of those “OK GOD I SEE YOU” moments because a year ago I was asking myself “why God?” and “why would you do this to me?” and little did I know that a whole year later I would be sitting in a random house in Peru, with a girl I had just met, and get to witness to her about how the Lord took that situation I was in to help me seek Him in the struggle and to advance His kingdom. We both cried like babies and it was the coolest moment I’ve ever been apart of. CAN I GET AN AMEN?!?!? The Lord puts you through struggles only to help you seek Him in the midst of it and bring goodness from it!!! I never truly believed this until I was able to experience it and man did it change my life. If you’re struggling and are wondering how goodness will come out of it, just know it will. It took a whole year for me to finally see it and it might take you longer. But you aren’t struggling for nothing and you aren’t struggling alone. KEEP SEEKING JESUS.