Mission Trip Memories

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My friends and I were sitting at the round table in the run-down and smelly kitchen laughing hysterically. We all had just been told the funniest joke that we'd ever heard before. Every person in the room turned their eager faces to our corner of the kitchen so they could see what kind of happiness was found in this weathered, old building. Looking at the place and position that we were in, one would automatically think that we were crazy to be enjoying the time spent in the old building of the church. Even though it was definitely not apparent to others as to how we could make ourselves have such a great time in this place, we made the best of our situation and tried to accomplish what we had come all the way here for: TO HAVE FUN!! My former schoolmates from grade school and I, went on a mission trip last summer to Kansas City, Kansas. It was the summer before my Junior year in high school and I was belated to be able to go on the trip. Last year I missed out on the mission to South Dakota. My best friend, Val, went on and on about how she had the best week of her life over there. I was tingling from head to toe with excitement - or maybe I was just nervous. I didn’t have any idea what I should have been expecting and I don’t think I was the only one who felt clueless. Everyone who went on the trip last year were crossing their fingers and hoping that this trip to Kansas would be as successful and fun as last year’s trip. The drive from our school's church, St. Jerome, was long and boring. We took four big vans, two of them silver, one blue, and one red. The whole car ride we stayed on Interstate 35W. For me, the car ride consisted mostly of staring out the window at the rows of cornfields dotted with farmhouses whizzing past my light blue eyes. I could also make out endless rows of wind turbines and I could almost hear the constant whirring of their propellers

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