Why Go?

So at this point, I assume you already know that I am going to Thailand for six months. If you didn't know that, you probably would not be on this blog.
What you may not know is why I decided to go. So basically, here's a bit of my thought process behind this decision.
Starting shortly before I graduated I began to feel like God wanted me to do some sort of overseas missions. But I had no idea what that would look like or where He wanted me to go. I had already committed to spending last schoolyear helping out with the mock trial team at UNH, so I spent lots of this past year praying and trying to figure out where exactly I was supposed to end up. Last spring, I got the chance to sit down with one of my friends from UNH and discuss different opportunities to go overseas. One of these opportunities that she suggested was to go to Thailand to work with a couple (Rodney and Phimpha) who help out abandoned children, refugees, women in need, and pretty much anyone who could use help. After considering many other options and praying and thinking a lot, I decided that this was the place that God wanted me to go. I still did not know if they needed help though, so I sent off an email to Rodney. 20 minutes later, I received a reply saying that I could come the next day if I wanted: they could always use help! I couldn't have asked for a clearer answer.
So here I am, several months later, finally making the last minute preparations for my trip! I leave in less than two weeks (November 15th) and will be in Thailand for slightly less than six months (until May 9). I will try to update this blog as often as I can while I am over there. Feel free to leave comments/questions and I will figure out the answers---or email me/facebook me if you want! Sometime before I leave I will post some things to pray about while I'm over there, but for now, prayer for last minute preparations would be great! Thanks so much!
~Andrea~

“Jesus looked at him and loved him. “One thing you lack,” he said. “Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.” At this the man’s face fell. He went away sad, because he had great wealth. …..
Then Peter spoke up, “We have left everything to follow you!”
“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”” (Mark 10:21-22, 28-31)