100 Things and Africa

1. last beverage→ Ummm...water last night
2. last phone call→ Kim - my piano student's mom
3. last text message → I don't txt
4. last song listened to→ Ave Maria
5. last time you cried→ yesterday when we sang "lead me Lord" in church
SIX HAVE YOU EVER:
1. dated someone twice→ never dated
2. been cheated on?→ no
3. kissed someone & regretted it? → maybe when kissing a sticky, gross toddler
4. lost someone special?→ Yes
5. been depressed? yes
6. been drunk and threw up?→ haha uh no. don't ever plan on it
LIST THREE FAVORITE COLORS:
Blue!
Teal
Red
THIS MONTH HAVE YOU:
1. Made a new friend → no
2. Fallen out of love → no
3. Laughed until you cried → YES!
4. Met someone who changed your life → Um, not this month
5. Found out who your true friends were → I've always known
6. Found out someone was talking about you→ yes =P
7. Have you kissed anyone on your friend's list→ don't have a friends list around here really
8. How many people on your friends list do you know in real life → umm n/a
9. How many kids do you want to have→ either 5 or 15. Probaby 15
11. Do you want to change your name → Not at all. until I get married and my last name changes. that'll be fine.
12. What did you do for your last birthday→ went and visited all my friends at my old church
13. what time did you wake up today → 9:30
14. What were you doing at midnight last night → Um. dunno.
15. Name something you CANNOT wait for → Thanksgiving!!!!!!I get a break from school!!!
1 6. Last time you saw your father → last night
17. What is one thing you wish you could change about your life → I wish my right hand wwasn't messed up
18. What are you listening to right now → my mom and sisters listening to Christmas Music
19. Have you ever talked to a person named Tom → yeah our next door neighbor was Tom
20. Who's getting on your nerves right now → no one
21. Most visited webpage → facebook, gmail,

001. Whats your fulll name → I don't have a fulll name.
002. Nicknames → tons.
003. Status? "Laura is going to watch Mr. Imperium again soon"
004. Zodiac sign → don't observe horoscopes
006. Elementary → Homeschool
007. Middle School? Homeschool
008. Highschool → homeschool and Faith Academy
010. Hair color → Brown
011. Long or short --> longish
012. Are you health freak → no
016. Height → 5'4.5"
017. Do you like someone → I LOVE a lot of people
018. What do you like about yourself →the fact that Christ lives in me, and I like my eyes. lol
019. Piercings → ears
020. Tattoos → no
021. Righty or lefty → Right
FIRSTS :
022. First surgery →wisdom teeth
023. First piercing → earrings..I was 8
025. First award → haha probably an AWANAs award
026. First sport you joined → none
027. First pet → a gerbil I think
028. First vacation→ florida, I think
029. First concert → the Christmas concerts my best friend does
030. First crush → oh boy. there was an adorable little boy at church named tyler, and I'm positive he thought I was cute, too. Word was he said he wanted to marry me when we grew up.
CURRENTLY :
049. Eating → nothing
050. Drinking → nothing
052. I'm about to → answer this question.
055. Waiting for → nothing....
YOUR FUTURE :
058. Want kids? absolutely
059. Want to get married? most definitely
060. Careers in mind? Yes =P
WHICH IS BETTER WITH THE OPPOSITE SEX? :
068. Lips or eyes → Eyes.
069. Hugs or kisses → Hugs!
070. Shorter or taller → Taller, most definitely
071. Older or Younger→ doesn't really matter
072. Romantic or spontaneous → Both!
073. Nice stomach or nice arms → Haha, both. =D
074. Sensitive or loud → good grief ...someone who can be sensitive, and someone who can be loud. whichever the situation calls for. not loud as in obnoxious though.
075. Hook-up or relationship → relationship duh
077. Trouble maker or hesitant→ um. neither.
HAVE YOU EVER :
078. Kissed a stranger → no
080. Lost glasses/contacts → no
081. Ran away from home → I have gotten to the edge of the woods before, but not really.
084. Broken someone's heart → Afraid so. =P Hopefully not seriously, though.
085. Been arrested → no
086. Turned someone down → pretty much, yeah.
087. Cried when someone died → Yes
088. Liked a guy/girl friend → duh if I didn't like them they wouldn't be my friends
DO YOU BELIEVE IN:
089. Yourself → I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me
090. Miracles → totally
091. Love at first sight → infatuation
092. Heaven → Yes
093. Santa Claus → heh, no, sorry
095. Kiss on the first date → nopers
096. Angels → absolutely
ANSWER TRUTHFULLY :
097. Is there one person you want to be with right now? not in the way this stupid questionnaire is asking.
098. Had more than one boyfriend/girlfriend at one time? Never had a boyfriend (thank goodness)
099. Do you believe in God? with all my heart
100. Posting this as 100 Truths? No

So, for all you who haven't figured this out from my status message, or want to know more about it, I'm going to be a missionary to Africa. My dream is to be a nurse/music teacher/counselor in an orphanage.


It's a bit of a long story. I'll see if I can start from the beginning and keep things coherent and in order.
When I was 5 I received the gift of eternal life. When I was 8 I started reading a missionary biography of Gladys Aylward. I read that book over and over and over. I thought it would be so amazing if I could be a missionary one day. Then one day at the Turner's house I started reading the Cherry Ames books. =) The Turner's had a magnificent library, and they let me borrow their books. That was when I decided it would be amazingly cool to be a nurse. I was afraid it was just some phase I was going through, because everyone goes through "phases" of wanting to be a ballerina, actress, nurse, vet, etc. SO, I was fiercely determined that my desire to be a nurse was NOT going to be a phase. I don't think I really needed to worry about that, though. My dream of being a nurse has stuck quite fast.
When I was around 14 years old I finally found assurance that I was saved, and someone told me that Jesus should be my identity - something I hadn't realized or thought of before. I was amazing to experience how Jesus became a reality to me. After my family came to the church we're at now, Belmont, God showed me that He wanted me to be a nurse. It was like He told me, "You want to be a nurse because I want you to be a nurse." That was an amazing thing to me. At the time my biggest fear in life was that I'd wreck things because I didn't know for sure what God wanted me to do. Someone had told me that if we give God our lives, then HE will give us dreams. Special dreams - dreams that are His plans for us. I've found this to be so true.
The thought of being a missionary has stuck with me. It's always been something back there in my head. Pastor Jackson preached a sermon sometime in early/mid 07, I believe, and in the invitation he talked about how God was asking us if we would go serve Him. God clearly asked me, "Will you go?" and I told Him, "Yes, Lord, I'll go! I want to go! I'd be devastated if you didn't let me go."
I asked some of my friends, "So, if I were to ever be a missionary, where do you think I might go?" and most of them said Africa. I'd had Africa in the back of my mind, but I had never mentioned it to any of these friends, so it was pretty funny to me when they all said the same thing. Caiti said China, maybe. Most of my heroes were missionaries to China and I have been afraid that God would send me there. I'm willing to go there, but its not something I'm dying to do. =P

Recently I've been learning Spanish, and it's an amazing language! I totally fell in love with it, and at some point I want to go to Mexico and become fluent. So, that made me wonder, does God want me somewhere like Mexico, or Peru, or Guatemala?
Before I was sure about missions I thought a lot about being a level 3 neonatal nurse(one of the nurses that takes care of the youngest, smallest, sickest newborns). I just love little babies- they're so sweet and miraculous- and what an amazing job that would be. It would be tragic, so many of the babies die, but I would have the chance of sharing my hope with parents who had no hope, or being an encouragement to the parents who did have the hope of Christ. However, if I stay in the United States I want to have a family and homeschool my kids, and I can't have a career and a family.
So, I've been rolling all these ideas around in my head and finally I just said, "Ya know what, I've gotta get this straightened out!" and last week I spent a lot of time praying about it. Obviously He said yes to Africa.

Now I'm just working on finishing highschool (oh this is taking forever!) so I can go to college. I want to get my bachelor's degree in nursing, and get some instruction on music teaching and counseling. I already teach some music, but I could definitely stand to be taught how to do it better. As far as counseling, well, that's a big thing and I definitely need teaching on that one.


So there it is. =) I can't wait to see where in Africa, when I get to go, and who I go with. =P (I'm not going single, that's for sure. First of all I don't think my Dad would let me, and second, well, I'm far too independent to go alone.)