Upcoming Baptism

Next Monday, after service, Chi Alpha is doing baptisms. Andy has talked about it for a couple weeks, and I've been debating over whether or not I thought it was the right time for me. As you probably know, I've never been baptized. Naturally I was (and still kind of am) a little nervous about it.

But after I talked it over with both Matthew and Sarah and I have decided that it's something I want to do.

I'm always telling Matt how I want to share with other people how much Jesus loves them. I bring it up at least once a week. It's one reason I feel so drawn to missions. But now I have something else I want to do. I want to share with other people how much I love Jesus! I'm so ready to publicly announce that I follow God and that I love Him with all my heart. I've grown so much in my faith over the last year, and I just am so excited to be doing this. And I'm even more excited to do it in front of my Chi Alpha family and to have Sarah actually perform the baptism. - It's safe to say that I'm beyond stoked for Monday.

I'm also stoked for tonight at small groups! It's finally testimony night. Ever since this night was mentioned at the beginning of the year, I've been excited for it.

Since I mentioned missions earlier, I suppose I could talk about something else too. On Monday night, we had a wonderful speaker come an talk to us at Chi Alpha. He is an awesome man who is doing such cool things overseas. For his protection, I won't go into detail on here. However, he said something that completely changed what I want for my future. Before I tell you exactly what changed.. let me give you a little background.

Since Matt scored well, he will learn a hard language. He will get to put preferences down of what language he wants and then he will be assigned one based on what the Air Force needs. We also have a list of possible places we could be stationed. Our top three, in order of how bad we want to be there, have been Hawaii, Maryland, and South Korea.

But that's changed. Monday night the speaker made a statement. He said "With some people, God will put it on their hearts to go outside of the U.S. borders to do missions." In that moment, God put it on my heart to attempt to get South Korea. I was so confused at first. I mean.. SOUTH KOREA!? Uhh... not my first choice... EVER. But I know God is calling me there, and I'm hoping the Air Force will be the way for us to get there.

Matthew can try to get Korean as a language. If he can, that's what he wants. Something I would love to do over there is open a coffee shop/cafe and get to know the people there. I want to build friendships there. One awesome thing about Matt's job in the Air Force is that he not only gets taught the language, but also the culture of where the language is most spoken. So if we got stationed in S. Korea, not only would he know the language, but he would know the culture too!

Something else that could be really super cool about doing something as such is that we could get Matt's parents involved. His dad just started a business that coaches young entrepreneurs to help them start businesses in other countries. I would totally be down to take some lessons from Miles! Also, Matt's parents love South Korea - it's where they met.

I know that living in South Korea would be hard. It's so far away from home. I would definitely miss my parents, my family, and my friends. But luckily, there are planes and passports and we can always visit. I can feel God pulling me that way, and I will make sacrifices for Him.