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Mission Trip Essay

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It was a nice start to a cold winter morning just when I got out of bed, I knew that this missions trip was going to be amazing but I did not know that it would change my life forever. It all started after my sister came back from a missions trip from Mexico, that I got the burning desire inside to go and help out and maybe even one day become a missionary. Once she was home though she told me all these wonderful stories of how she had helped out people with things like fix broken houses, paint the church's, but also she told me about how she got to know herself more and fix some of her bad habits and behaviors that she did not even know she had. That is what really inspired me to go on this missions trip, but prior to heading off to Mexico, …show more content…

Then we went off and loaded our bags in the vans and we went off to Mexico.
We drove for about 26 hours so about two days to get to Texas, where our dear friend Contardo lived. He is our very good friend and helps translate for us and is has been on mission trips for a very long time. Upon arrival he came out and greeted us and said “So how was the trip you guys alright?”
“We then replied oh yea but just very tired” and he invited us in and treated us with some delicious fresh …show more content…

It took us couple of days to make all of the decorations and costumes but praise the lord we did it and were able to translate the story from English to

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