Why Am I Here?

At the beginning of our week, my Dad asked our team the question "Why am I here?". As our week has gone on, I have kept this question in the back of my mind but to be honest I have been pretty discouraged about a few situations so I didn't really know how to answer this question. Last night after dinner with my family and Bethany at El Corral, I finally got my answer. I couldn't help but notice how God placed this certain situation right in front of me. My mom, Bethany, and I didn't eat all of our meals therefore I got a box so that I could give our leftovers to 2 or 3 kids that we had seen sniffing glue on the street corner by our hotel earlier that day. Unfortunatly when we got to where the boys were standing earlier in the day there had been an accident therefore the police were standing all over the street. The boys weren't there because the police would have taken their glue if they had seen them with it. The glue is used to take away their hunger pains. Anyway, I was pretty disappointed since I didn't get to give away my food but then out of the corner of my eye I saw 2 younger boys sitting on the Burger King sidewalk. We called one of the boys over to where we were standing and I handed him my bag of food. The way he reacted you would have thought that we gave him gold. He stood there and kept saying thank you over and over. As I watched the boys eat their meal my heart broke for them. I can't imagine living in the poverty that these boys are faced with everyday, I can't even imagine eating food from a complete stranger off of the street. It wasn't 5 minutes later that the same little boy came back over to me and told me thank you again for the food and he told me how it meant a lot to him for me to give him the food because his mom didn't have enough money or food to support his family. That period of time opened my eyes and my mind. I am here to help give hope to kids like the boy that I gave my food to last night. Many times I ask myself, Why did God place me on Earth to live in the U.S. with all the material resources I need or want, an awesome family, a well paying job, and great friends, why didn't God choose to place me in a poverty-stricken country such as Honduras? I don't know that I will will ever be able to answer that question but I do know that God placed me on this Earth to provide hope and a future for those that don't have any hope. God has given me the talent for mission work and I know have come to the realization that God has placed me at the spot where I am in my life right now and I need to use my talents to the best of my abilities when he places the oppurtunities in front of me.
Thank you for all the prayers that you all have prayed for our mission team!
Please pray for a safe trip for our team as we begin to fly out tomorrow and Friday.