The last three years since God gave me the gift of salvation has been filled with ups and downs. Although not every moment was the best I would never go back and change any of it. God has used every thing in my life for His glory and my good just as He promised. The main thing He has been teaching me is that every single person is broken just like me. In regards to the Law, everybody has fallen short. This brings everybody to the foot of the Cross as equals. We all need Jesus to be forgiven for our sins we commit everyday. The last six months or so God was putting on my heart to use the gifts He has given me outside of the comfort of the United States. I started wrestling with that conviction. I can idolize comfort and going somewhere uncomfortable would not exactly feed that. If I believe that Jesus is better than anything in the world it was time for me to act on that belief. Over the next months I heard stories after stories about how God is working in Ethiopia and slowly but surely the Holy Spirit changed my heart to the point where i was at complete peace with the thought of going. God doesn't need a person like me to grow His kingdom! I want to be apart of what He is doing so here I am. God has given me gifts that enable me to connect with people regarding the Gospel and life which make it easy for me to engage with people about Jesus. God gives us gifts to serve others not to serve ourselves. My goal is to glorify God through sharing Christ in Ethiopia and prayerfully seeing people come to know the living God that has saved me from so much!