Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005, and left chaos and ruin in its wake. Winds with speeds up to 175 mph destroyed everything in sight, including the levees that protected the city of New Orleans. Water came rushing down the streets and people lost everything they had and were left with nowhere to go. The United States of America was not prepared to deal with such a catastrophe and it has been the help of individuals that have helped the people who were affected get back on their feet. Since the hurricane hit,volunteers from all over the country have been going into the area and helping in whatever way possible.
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 I journeyed to Cuba in 1998 for my very first mission trip. It was my freshman trip, and I spent a lot of time debating whether I should go solely because of the cost. A thousand or so dollars is quite expensive today to say nothing of back in 1998 when I was a young nineteen year old, who didn’t earn much from a retail job. My goal then was to save money and hope to find a purpose for it later in life. I knew nothing of Cuba; I heard constantly that people there were poor. The first lesson I learned from the people I encountered on mission trips is that poverty does not equal unhappiness.
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 Serving as a missionary was the most amazing and rewarding experience I have ever had. I spent ten months in Pohnpei-Micronesia as a kindergarten teacher. The Pohnpei Seventh Day Adventist School is quite small, with no more than six local teachers; it is sustained each year by the work of student missionaries. When I made the trip, I was part of a group of thirty missionaries who came from different Adventist universities around the United States and Australia.
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When I first heard there was a mission trip to Fiji in the works, I was ecstatic. I envisioned myself lying on pristine white beaches, fruit juice in hand. However, my experience in Fiji was nothing like I imagined.
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 In January of 2007 I went to Kiburrura, Uganda for two weeks. I made the trip with a group of twenty people from the Covenant Life Church (located in Gaithersburg, MD.) The group consisted of 2 pastors and 18 singles between the ages of 19 and 28. Many of us were friends and some were strangers but by the end of the trip we had all grown close; those 19 people became a family to me. I discovered that being together in a foreign country and sharing the gospel brings people together in ways that are not always expected.
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 I had heard several great stories from my parents, and friends about mission trips, but nothing prepared me for my first mission trip to Santa Barbara, Honduras. While I was excited to travel to and work with people from Honduras, I was also scared. So many thoughts were passing through my mind. Would I get sick from the food and drink? Did I need to worry about my things being stolen? Was there a lot of crime where I was going? Getting prepared for the trip made me feel uneasy, but for some reason I felt impressed to go by God. |
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 I really had no idea what I was getting myself into, since this was my first mission trip. To be honest, what really motivated me was everyone around me commenting on past mission trips and how great of an experience it is. So, I thought it would be fun, different, I would be helping others, and my friends are going, so why not.
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