What do you do when God does something in your life that you never expected, or asks something of you that He knows you’ll struggle with?

My name is Jaelin Eulberg. My family moved to Tarija, Bolivia as team missionaries about two years ago, and honestly, I didn’t want to move. Being a MK in a foreign country meant leaving so much behind, changing the normal, and living somewhere where the only people other than immediate family I knew was the missionary couple we came to serve under. To me it seemed lonely, and I didn’t really think God would ask so much of me if he really cared.

When we got here, everything about my life was different except my heart that was still wrong. I still wanted to go home. I still struggled to make friends. I still messed up my Spanish. I still felt like I stuck out too much when all I wanted to do was blend in.

Gradually over time God changed my heart. I began to read my own devotions every day and started a worship ministry in my youth group. God has given me a longing to spend time in his Word. He has been faithful to me through these two years of ministry. This place now feels more like home. I started making friends after I began going to youth group in one of our newer churches. He has given me friends and a family even bigger than the one I left behind. He has shown us how powerful he is, and that he does care for our every need. He loves us. He wants our submission to his will, and our true, genuine faith. He wants us to love him back.

“Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or imagine.” Ephesians 3:20