It was May of 2006..
I was in my last month of HighSchool.. at that time I was in the process of kinda dating a guy that I thought he was 'the one'... my life was going 'perfect' I thought..
I always said I was going to be a doctor.. a famous and important doctor that would save people with cancer and hiv.. I was so excited on going to college! I got ready or the admission test and I thought I would be there.. The school had capacity for 500 students but the test had been taken for 5,00o guys and girls.. That meant that 4,500 people would not be able to make it.. and guess what?! I was one of those!!
It was so hard for me.. It was my dream!! What was I going to do?! I cried and cried.. At the same time this guy (the one that I told you earlier) and I broke up! I made a commitment to God.. saying that I would not date again until I had found my future husband..
My days were going pretty slow.. it was July already and I was getting so sad seeing that all of my friends were getting ready for college and I was at home just crying and having a bad time.. I need to say that I had a bad attitude.. I did not like anything! I was just complaning about things..
At that time, my Church was planning on going to this missions trip to Cd. Victoria, Tmps.. that place was 4 hours away from my house.. My mom was going and in the morning of the day that they were leaving she was trying to convince me to join them but I just kept crying and telling her that God had forgotten about me and that He did not love me enough to let me go to the Medical School.. But she, wisely told me: "Laura, dont you remember one night that we were praying to see what was God's will for your future and you told Him that if you could be a doctor you were going to serve Him.. but if He would not allow you to go to College you would serve Him full time?!" Oh my gosh! She was right! I completly forgot about it!!
I imediatly went to my room and prayed asking God another opportunity.. so I got ready, made my suitcase and we left for this missions trip.. It was a short term missions... During the week I was a little kids teacher, teaching them about God and Salvation.. at the end of the week more then 150 kids had recieved Jesus in their hearts.. and I was so happy for it.. God changed my heart in that week. We were staying in a really poor comunity that God showed me how much He has blessed me. My life completly changed!! My heart was different. God showed me so much those days.
When we came back, my mom told me about this School of Evangelism or Discipleship Training School that she had heard a couple years ago.. The institution name was YWAM - Youth With A Mission and we personally went to the base in my town for information about the next Discipleship Training School (DTS).. It was going to start on September 17th of that year to end on February of 2007.. I did not like the idea so much, because in November 2006 Dentist School was going to be starting and I thought: "Maybe God wants me there..." But He did not..
I did my application for the DTS hoping that I wasnt going to be accepted.. because the youngest age was 18 and I was 16! So I sent it hopeless.. thinking that I was not going to attend.
Two weeks before the school started... i got this package from YWAM! No way?! Was I part of it?! Yep! I WAS....
SO I started to get ready.. I lived 3 hours from the Mexican-American border.. so I came to the States in a short weekend to buy new clothes, new suitcase, new everythig... I was so excited, God had changed my bad attitud... I was getting open to what God wanted to do in those 5 months of my life...
The time came.. we loaded my mom's car with my luggage and we left for the base.. The base was just 25min away from my house.. I did not know anything about YWAM before.. so I thought it was just a program/school in my town.. Later, I realized that YWAM is all over the world and that I could have chose another country to go.. but it was late, and I recognized that God wanted to do something with me in my own country and town.. with the people I was going to met later that day.
