Background

God has blessed me with many missions opportunities in the past and I trust and pray He will continue to open doors for me. Late last year I asked God to give me an opportunity to go somewhere internationally. Like He almost always so graciously does, He has opened a door already. God planned a trip for a group of fifteen people from our church to go to Cambodia. I have been invited to go to help teach some youths in Cambodia how to do Speechless (something I will be sure to talk a lot more about at a later time). This trip got me really excited and also really thinking (along with lots and lots of prayer). I thought (and still think) God wanted me to not just go somewhere for a week, but to give more time to serving Him. I decided that I was going to talk to some of the missions team's leaders and see if it would somehow be possible for me to go early and serve in Cambodia for longer than just a week. I decided to pray a little bit and didn't really try to talk to anyone. A few weeks later one of my friends asked for prayer, he was thinking about going to Cambodia for two months and staying with a man named Vando who runs an orphanage in Cambodia. Since we are pretty good friends, I asked him what he thought of me going with him. Eventually he said he thought it would be awesome and so we sent an email to Vando asking if we could come and help out at the orphanage along with a bunch of other random stuff. For example, exploring the country, learning the language, helping with a few random things at the orphanage and then meet up with the team and do speechless. He still hasn't answered that email and that basically brings us to where I am right now. The motto for our family and my life for the past few months has been "praying and waiting". That's exactly where I am at this point in time. Although it's uncomfortable because I'm human and love being in control, it really is a great place to be in because it forces dependence on Him. We still don't know if we will be going early, but I would ask anyone who reads this to pray for me as I seek to do God's will. Also that He would open the exact doors He wants (like He always does) and that I wouldn't try to pry open any doors He chooses to close.