Alma de Missionera

I wanted to explain why my blog address is almademisionera. When I was in Spain for World Youth Day in Madrid last August one of my favorite songs that I heard was called Alma Misionera. During my discernment of my call to missionary work this past year I often reflected on the lyrics to this song:
Here is the chorus, I translated it into english in the parenthesis:

Llévame donde los hombres  (Lead me where the people)
necesiten tus palabras, (need your words)
necesiten, mis ganas de vivir. (need my desire for life)
Donde falte la esperanza, (where hope is lacking)
donde falte la alegría, (where joy is lacking)
simplemente, por no saber de ti. (simply because they don't know of You)

You can listen to the song here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEr3Byr1PCk&feature=related
or here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIFZRYXgIoA

Also, I just bought a plane ticket to Guatemala!!! I will be leaving on August 15th, the Feast of the Assumption for Antigua, Guatemala where I will be brushing up on my spanish at language school and bonding with the other volunteers in my missionary class until October when we will arrive to the Farm.

My next adventure...

Since I graduated from high school four years ago I have been blessed with many adventures. I have been on two mission trips to Nicaragua, spent a semester in Florence, and a summer in Seville. Not to mention all of the road trips, weddings, and crazy outings I had while at Benedictine. Now that I am graduating from college in less than I week it is time to begin my next adventure. In August I will embark on a new journey to be a missionary in Honduras. I will be working with orphans through an organization called Farm of the Child. I expect that this will be the craziest, hardest, and most rewarding of all of my adventures so far.
Over the next few months I will reflect more on my preparation for this mission and once in Honduras I hope to continue to inform you of my mission through this blog. I invite you all to join me in my mission through reading my blog and, if possible, offering financial or spiritual support.

"Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold I am with you always, until the end of the age." Matthew 28:19-20