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When Achieving Your Dreams Doesn’t Make You Happy

Over the last three years, I’ve dreamed about being a missionary in the Dominican Republic. I took a short-term trip to DR a few years back and came alive while living in a safe house for at-risk/rescued girls, entering into an ever-changing, intense, battlefield environment.When I returned to the states, I jumped back into school and began praying that the Lord would bring me back to that little Caribbean country. A little more than a year after my first visit, my plans came together and