Personal Narrative: My Mission Trip To Peru

All my life I have wanted to go on a mission trip to help mentor those in need. So when the opportunity came to go to Jicamarca, Peru I was extremely excited to be a part of the team being shipped off. Before going to Peru we were put through a “special” type of training. During this training we were taught what we were going to be speaking about, a skit, and a ballet dance. So when we went to Peru we would be ready for anything, at least that’s what I thought. Traveling to Peru was intense, we left Fort Myers to go to Miami at 5am, got to Miami around 8am and waited for our international flight to Panama that left at 11am. After we arrived in Panama around 5pm we had another flight to Peru, we arrived at around 12 am the next day, after we got to Lima we had to take a two-hour drive to Jicamarca, Peru when we finally arrived at 2am the next morning. Our arrival in Peru was an awakening experience. Growing up I had always heard my parents telling me how ungrateful we were and how children in poorer countries would die to have our lives. Going to Peru just proved that point. The air was a mixture of dirt and gas, the streets filled with trash and rundown buildings from earthquakes their walls …show more content…
Charmali has a very very hard time being social and making friends. She was always by herself and she would pretend to be fine and be able to hold herself together until she would go to her room. When she would go to her room she would cry for hours eventually crying herself to sleep begging for her to somehow make friends. After she met you girls she was so excited. She ran home that day and said ‘Mom! Mom! Guess what happened today! Some girls from Life Church came and taught us a dance and they played games with us!’ She was so happy and excited and every day she would come back and tell me how great her day was because of all the new friends she had made. She went from faking her happiness to actually being happy and wanting to