To give you some background...

Last night I was talking to some good friends at Fusion (the youth group that I lead an 8th grade small group at!) and they asked me why I wasn't blogging?! To be honest, I have always wanted to... Ive just never taken the time to! I am so excited to actually start, and be able to give everyone a glimpse into my life!
One Huge reason why I am so excited about this, is that I leave in 3 days to Honduras!
I will be going with Carmen on the Joy.fm and Mikes Chair! We are going to supply over 600 Children with shoes.
Let me give you a little back story to explain how I got on this trip! (This looks long but it is SO worth it!)

July 9, 2011 Kristina Janolo (my roomie for Miss FL) was crowned Miss Florida 2011, I am happy to say I received top 15! The next day my family and I packed up our cars to head home from St. Petersburg, back to Tampa. My mom got in the car and immediately asked me "So whats next?!" with out hesitating, I said "A mission trip!"

For years I have known I had the call to go somewhere and serve others.

The next day I texted a good family friend Carmen, who works at the Joy.fm and asked her if she knew about any good trips I could go on that were coming up.
Every year she hosts a trip to deliver shoes to orphans in need every year with the band Mikes Chair, I knew this trip had closed at the end of June and there was no way I had a chance to go at this point. (The past 3 years I have wanted to go with Carmen to deliver shoes, but it has never worked out.)
She texted me saying "Sure let me get back to you" I figured this meant she was going to see if anyone knew about any trips coming up.

Little did I know, God had bigger plans than what I had my mind set on.

Three days later she asked me if I was serious about a mission trip, and she mentioned the trip to Honduras. She said she had a conference call with Buckner International, the team she was going with, and she would see what she could do.
The next text message I recieved from her said "I hate to tell you..." "You need to clear your schedule for September 11th through the 17th...." "Because you are going to HONDURAS!!!"

To wrap up the rest of the story, I surpassed a 97 person wait list for this trip... This was only by divine intervention. I then contacted someone from the Miss Florida Board to see if I was able to take my Miss Tampa Crown and Sash with me on the trip....

Now, Miss Tampa 2011 will be going to Honduras to put shoes on the beautiful feet of orphan children, and deliver lots of love and hugs from America!

I cant wait to share all of my adventures with you!

Stay tuned,
Chloe