Up and Running

So, I decided that I needed a blog to record all my thoughts, prayers, hopes, dreams, fears and adventures of my very first mission trip. So here we go - 40 days and counting until I leave Birmingham with my daughter, Ellen and several other teens to Tegucigalpa, Honduras for 2 weeks of house building, hospital visiting, feeding residents of the city dump food and growing my faith and relationship with Jesus Christ. Ellen has said since 6th grade that she was going to Honduras but last summer God really pricked my heart that even if she changed her mind, he wanted me to go. At Christmas, we broached Jeff with our desire to "just apply for passports". He wasn't very keen on the idea but finally agreed. Then, passports in hand we committed to go to Honduras. We began to raise money and over the last 4 months our excitement has grown. I cannot even imagine all that God has in store for us. I waver between total excitement to total fear. So many people who have gone before me have said to me "I wish I could go to see you with those babies" or "I wish I could go to see you worship every night" or "I wish I could go to see you on the bus rides every day" - hmmm, that one worries me. My prayer every day is that God prepares me physically, mentally, spiritually and emotionally for this grand adventure. For a little girl from Gadsden that has never left the US - this is just huge on so many levels.