For those who don’t know me, I’m Brianna Swihart (Bri for
short). I’m very excited to be leaving in a week for the trip! Normally by now
with something this big I would think that I would be completely nervous and
scared out of mind; however, that’s not the case. God has been giving me so
much peace about this trip its mind blowing.
It’s very exciting to see how much it is His plan for me to be going on
this trip, starting all the way back in May.
Back in May I was a senior in high school and I had no idea
what to do after I graduated. College seemed like the thing to do, but it
didn’t seem to be the right thing for me. I didn’t want to go to college just
because everyone else was doing it; I wanted to do what God wanted me to do.
After reading a book for one of my classes I got the idea of maybe taking the
year off and serving the Lord overseas. Through prayer and God using various
people I figured out that He definitely wanted me to go overseas and I figured
out where exactly God wanted me to go.
Even now, He’s been reassuring me that what I’m doing is His
plan for my life. For example, He has used support raising to confirm that I’m
on the right path. In December, I didn’t even have a quarter of what I needed,
but a week before the support raising deadline I had more then all the support
I needed! Praise Him for that!
With the Lord showing me where He wanted me, all my support
funds being raised, and now all the peace I have about the trip, I know God’s
plan for my life is to go on this trip!
It’s kind of crazy to look back to May and think about how I
had no idea that I would be leaving the country for three months. But God
revealed His plan to me in His perfect timing. And now in a week I’ll be
leaving my family and friends and flying down to Georgia and meeting my team for the
first time. And then I’ll be flying out of the country and serving people of a
different language and culture for three months. It is a little scary to think
about. There will be times when I’m scared or I’ll miss my friends and family back home.
My 0lder brothers will be missed.
Some of my closest friends that I’ll miss. 
But this is God’s plan for me is to go serve Him. He’s got my back and He’s going to be
with me every step of the way. As long as I put all my trust in Him I have nothing to fear.
