Emma Nissen

And it was, I mean, you could call it by chance that my vocal coach was like, oh, the ENTs, they need mock patients to learn scoping throats.

Will you go be a mock patient?

And it just so happened that it was like just a few days prior to that, that I had lost my voice and I didn't realize that that was the hemorrhage.

And so I go in and they're like, oh, it looks like you've hemorrhaged your vocal cords, but because we're just students, you should go get another opinion, but stop talking, stop singing.

You'll probably need to drop out of college.

So my immediate reaction was like, oh my gosh, this is horrible.

I thought that God was leading me to college.

And like, I got this scholarship.

I was the first freshman to ever get into the jazz program there.

And I felt like I was, you know, crushing it.

But then immediately I get this like, oh,

This is my window of opportunity to do something better that I don't yet understand.

I just got to have faith.

So that was like, I was like, okay.

So a year later, I'm living in Sweden.

Pandemic starts.

And I'm like, I felt I had been led there by God.

And I was like, this is my thing that I'm going to do.

And I, yeah, I was on it.

I was doing a church mission at that time.