To India!

I'M GOING TO INDIA!!!!

The other day we found out where we will do a three month outreach after completing our three months of lecture in Kona, Hawaii with Youth with a Mission.  I am so excited that I get to go to India!

Let me tell you a little story....

I love India, I've never been there, but I still love it!  Years ago, the Lord placed India on my heart and told me that someday I would go there.  People use to (well, they still do...) ask me what I wanted to do when I "grew up" I would always say, "Be a missionary!"   I don't think too many people took me seriously... I got a lot of responses like, "Oh that's awesome, but what do you really want to do?" I would answer again, "Do missions for the Lord" and they would usually say something along the lines of, "Well, you do know that you need a 'real' job- like maybe a doctor or teacher?"   I would think about it and there have been different times I my life that I have thought more seriously about doing university, but never felt peace... So I decided that I was just going to follow the Lord and go where He would lead me and if that includes some form of higher education later on, then awesome!

Anyways, back to India... :) So, for a long time India has been on my heart - I had a picture of their flag and a map on my bullitin board, along with a sheet of paper that I had written down ideas for a orphanage/compound for children (on that compound I wanted a medical clinic, school and people to give the children skills to succed in life.)   So coming into Discipleship Training School (DTS) I wanted to go to India if that was an option for outreach.

On Wednesday afternoon the locations were revealed and there were about 15 location!  I wish I could just go to them all!   We had about 20 minutes to pray and ask the Lord where He wanted us to go and write down our top two choices and submit them to our leaders.  I go to sit down and pray and I hear the word "New York City" which is one of the locations.  I was like, "Lord, is that you?"  I kept praying and only thing I could hear was, "New York City."  I wrestel with the Lord, trying to tell Him where I wanted to go (which, by the way isn't smart, because He always wins :)  I finally put down my locations: 1) New York City  2) India.   It was probably one of the hardest things I've done, because I had no desire, what so ever, to go to NYC.   So, over the next 48 hours, I kept praying that the Lord would send me where He wanted me to go and not only where I wanted to go.  Friday night finally came around and we were sent on a treasure hunt to find out teams and then from there, locations were revealed and team leaders.   When I heard that I was going to India, I was esthetic!  I couldn't believe that the Lord granted me the desire of my heart (which He had given me!), because I thought for sure that I was headed towards NYC!  I felt like after I heard where I was going, the Lord said, "Anna, I was testing you to see if you would listen to me and do what I ask you to do, even know you had a desire to go to India, you trusted me and put down NYC" It felt like a Abraham and Isaac story.

 So... Sometime around December 19th I will travel with my amazing team of 9 (including staff) to India!  We don't know for sure where we are going within India, but we will be praying about it the next few months.

I stil need about $8000 to complete lecture and then outreach, please pray about supporting me, with prayer and financially :)


Love you guys and thank you for praying and supporting me in all that God has done and is doing in my life!