For Our Good

I started thinking it was going to be impossible, but then God showed me otherwise.
 
So, as y’all know…I feel called to go back to Zion’s Gate in Honduras after my trip. Since my last few weeks in Honduras and now here in Thailand, I have slowly been trying to get things figured out. It’s a long process and a lot goes into moving to another country. I’ve briefly talked with Tony and Nidia (the contacts at Zion’s Gate). I’ve also been talking to my family a lot about it. My granddad the most. He’s on the Mission’s Board at my church back in the states and they have been all over Central and South America. They normally go and build churches and thigns like that. I had the idea in my first few weeks in Honduras for him to bring a team down maybe sometime in the summer of 2013 because Tony has really awesome ideas of how to improve the property there. My granddad has been trying to figure out possibilities and just stuff. It started looking like things were way too complicated. So I started getting a bit discouraged. He’s also been trying to help me figure out how I would be supported and how I would live as a missionary in Honduras. It was beginning to be frustrating and I didn’t know what to do or how to go about anything. I thought it might become an impossibility. But Saturday night I got really encouraged.  I got an email from my granddad tonight about World Outreach Ministries. I also received an answer to a Facebook message I sent Cassie (who did the World Race and now lives at Zion’s Gate) about how she raises her support. She sent me the same ministry. Which, I forgot to mention, is located only about an hour and a half from my house. Crazy, right? Oh but ALSO my granddad sent me another email about a girls blog he found and she is moving to Honduras in May to work with the same ministry. She did the World Race also. I looked at her blog and as soon as I was about to comment I saw Tony’s Facebook status. It talked about their 2013 calendar and about how he is open to volunteers and families and anyone coming down to help. The same girl had left a comment. So I added her and sent her a message (oops for being stalkerish…) Turns out she is using the same ministry Cassie uses and my grandpa sent me an email about that is only an hour and a half from my house. So tonight I felt God basically saying “Lol, Karson…you know that with Me there are no such things as impossibilities. I got you…!” I can’t get over the Lord’s favor and cleverness. So yeah. It pretty much looks like I’ll be in Columbus for a bit but to Honduras soon after for a while.
It’s weird how things work. My whole life I went to the same private school so every time I would ask myself “what will I be doing this time next year?” it was always almost the same answer. The next grade. The next school year. Not much change. I mean of course a little but nothing to either scare or excite me much. Even when I was a Senior I knew it was going to be college of some sort, and even that didn’t really scare me or excite me that much. But now I’m sitting here in Asia thinking about my life. Thinking about how God is pointing me from all directions to Honduras. I know I will be there but I don’t know specifics. I don’t know exactly what it will be like. And this is definitely enough to scare and excite me. But the good kind of scare. Like when you’re about to get on an airplane for the first time going to a cool place. Maybe a little afraid of the taking off or the landing or even the whole ride. But once you get to where you’re going you don’t even think about the plane ride. You just think of all of the fun you are going to have and all of the memories you are going to make. At least that’s how I am. And  yeah I am afraid of these next few months because I want to be in Honduras so bad. But I have to take the ride before I can get to the destination. Sorry if that sounds cheesy but it really is true.
God has been giving me ideas of things I can do in Honduras and it’s just making me so excited and eager. But He is also making me super excited about the rest of Thailand and South Africa. It’s fun to come to realizations of God’s love and plans. Because for so long I never really noticed it. But now it’s just fun to figure things out. And this is one of the few things in my life that I have been able to be 110 percent sure about.
 
“And we know that in ALL things God works for the GOOD of those who love him, who have been called according to HIS purpose..” –Romans 8:28