About Me!
Hello there! My name is Alayna Avila, but my friends and family call me Laney. I am from Albuquerque, New Mexico and attend Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, Tennessee. It is at Southern where I felt God’s call to go out and serve as a Student Missionary for 9 months! I was raised Seventh-Day Adventist, and I attended an adventist elementary school. However, wasn’t until I got to Southern that I decided that my faith could no longer be the faith of my parents, but my own. I did not attend an adventist academy for high school, but a public school for high school. I chose Southern because I felt as though the Lord was calling me there. When I started my freshman year at Southern I hadn’t realized how involved in mission work the school was. I had heard lots of mission stories growing up. The beautiful miracles God had done in the scariest moments of missionaries lives. It wasn’t uncommon to hear the stories, but to be hearing the stories of people my age, of how up unti