The Virtuous Daughter Magazine Winter 2016/17 Edition | Page 19

Everyone around us is searching for a love that will fulfill the emptiness deep inside their soul . We , as believers , have something of great value to give them . I never completely understood this until the fall of 2015 , when I was sitting in orientation at a Mission Training School . There were seven of us young people learning about the country to which we would be embarking , and I can ’ t tell you enough how unreal it was . The Middle East was going to be touched with my own skin and this destination definitely was never put on my bucket list . In fact , I don ’ t know that I ever even considered thinking of going to this place , but here I was . We were going to be working with ISIS refugees in a country that is struggling through war and Satan ’ s strongholds on people ’ s lives . I didn ’ t know if I was ever going to see my family again , or if I would even return in one piece . We were told that the village we would be living in was close to dangerous territory , and that took me to a place of surrender I had never experienced before . I had absolutely no idea that God was going to take my heart , speak to it , and send me home a completely different person .