The summer after my sophomore year, I went on a mission trip to Haiti with my church’s youth group. There, I served by building a house for a family affected by the earthquake that shook Haiti in 2010 and did minor repairs and clean up at the mission base I stayed at. At the end of each day, my team and I would come back to the base to discover it flooded with children. The kids would cling to your side and beg for you to play with them in the limited English they spoke. From the moment after I ate dinner to the time I went to bed, I played with the Haitian children- chasing them around the little yard, teaching them hand clapping games, and carrying them on my back. Throughout my life, I have desired to serve others in any way I can. Sometimes
