if you know me or have read any of my blog posts you know that i love to travel. i have always wanted to see the world and have been so incredibly blessed to be able to do so. i love the feeling of being put into a place where i don't know any one and the culture is totally different. i love to learn how they see the world from where they were raised and learn from them. however i have always wanted to travel and really make a difference. i had an experience a little like this when i went to China. since i was dancing with BYU i was there for a different purpose than ever before. to spread the gospel through dancing. it was truly incredible and a feeling i can hardly describe. one of the dances that the team we were with (CDT) danced to was this song. i truly, as cheesy as this is going to sound, felt infinite and realized that is why i loved to travel, especially when it's not about me at all.
so that's why i'm about to do what i'm about to do.
today i got a phone call during my biology class from an Idaho number. thinking it was probably just one of my aunts asking me about an up coming clogging event i decided i would call it after class. after listening to the message it went something like "Hi JanaLe, this is the OSSO organization.." once i heard that i started freaking out thinking "why are they calling me? aren't they just supposed to send me an email? on no, i didn't get in" i had to come to terms with whatever was going to happen which took the long walk home from campus. i got in my car to go to work and called them back. no answer. killer right? i breathed waited for what felt like days (probably was 3 minutes) and called back. someone answered and transferred me to the person i needed to talk to. they asked me about the rules and if i was willing to abide by them and after saying yes, yes, yes (please can you just tell me so i can breath again) "We would like to accept your application and are so excited tha
t you would be willing to join us."
AH! I got pretty excited, tried to hold in a squeal (which if you know me, it was hard to hold in that high pitch of excitement!) and kept saying thank you. she hung up and i was probably still saying thank you. i couldn't believe it. a dream come true! i know they accept basically all volunteers so i mean i have been planning on it for a while now but after it actually being real i just can't believe it.
so here it is: for a few weeks in July i get the amazing opportunity to go serve the sweetest little babies/toddlers/kids/teens in Quito, Ecuador. wanna know something else pretty cool? one of my besets friends/sister Hannah is is Ecuador serving a mission. we will probably be a good 6 hour bus ride away but still,
same country!
i'm so incredibly excited and grateful to be able to serve and love the people of Ecuador. i've heard that it will be one of the hardest yet most rewarding things i will ever do and i couldn't feel more blessed.
is this real life?
