What I would do with the 1,000 dollar scholarship is to go to a University that I really want to go. I would used that to pay for some of my tuition, I want to do nursing so any financial help is help and I take this money and use it to take a worry off of my parents back.

I always wonder why I got sick. I always asked God “why me?”, “why not someone else?” In 2015 I was diagnosed with ALL. Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. At the age of 11 I was getting chemotherapy when I was supposed to be in basketball practice. During that time I didn't really focus on God. I was forced on trying to stay alive. I remember my old church coming to see me and tell me everything will be alright, even when I knew it wasn't . Some nights I would even cry myself to sleep telling God how miserable my life was. A few months pass and I get better, not doing chemotherapy any more, not losing as much weight, and getting a transplant on June 1, 2016. I'm in remission as we speak. I had the thought of why God did what he did, why he chose me. I prayed to him telling me why he did it and why he allowed so much pain in my life mentally and physically. At that moment I got a flashback of me being in the hospital, and I heard a voice, a beautiful, soft voice saying “I did this because I want you to experience what the people you're going to help are experiencing”. I went on the floor crying of how lucky I was that God chose me to help spread his love. So when I get an A on my test, or get into a program where I learn about becoming a certified nurse assistant, I always think about how cancer made me the person I am and how God wants me to become a nurse and experience how amazing his love is. If God told me to travel away to become a nurse, I would obey. (Deuteronomy 28:1)