Personal Narrative: Mission Trip

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Holly Peper God's Working Hands In June of 2004, I began packing my suitcase for a two week mission trip to Savannah, Georgia. A mission trip is all about helping people. For my mission trip a few kids from church and I were going to help rebuild houses that have aged and needed a lot of work, and the people living in them could not afford to pay for the repairs. I was so excited yet very nervous because I didn't really know any of the people that were going with me. I had to bring a bunch of extra things too: Tools for rebuilding and a mat to sleep on. The next morning my family drove me to our church where all the kids were throwing their bags into a trailer hooked up to a gigantic red van. We all said good-bye to our families and got into the van…show more content…
I was in the shower and I dropped the soap, I bent down to grab it and I saw the biggest bug I've ever seen. I jumped out of that shower so fast and had one of the other girls come in and get it out. I was freaked out. There was a bonfire later that night that we went to and met all the people from the campground. They were all really nice and told us we were going to have a fun time at the campground. The next day we headed to a clearing in the woods with one of the campground leaders and we did a lot of team building activities. We stood on a log and had to order ourselves alphabetically without talking or falling off the log. we fell about five times but I had a lot of fun doing that. The next activity all of us had to stand on a platform and we had to use these two planks to get to another platform about fifteen feet away. The group I was in figured that out pretty fast. The next task was really hard. there where two ropes in the shape of a V that two people had to get as far as they can on them. So I paired up with someone and, using each other for support, started across the ropes. Unfortunately we didn't get very far. Everyone was starting to get hungry by then, so we

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