Personal Narrative: My Special Trip

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“Avery, do you know if you are you gonna be able to go to Mississippi with us?” The director of mission trips was asking me again.
I replied “I don’t know yet, I want to though” nodding my head a little bit. I knew there was a reason for me to go on this trip because he had asked me so many times.
Going on this trip was probably one of the best things that I could have done, it impacted me in so many ways, from my faith, to my self confidence, to realizing that what I had was way better than what these kids had and I had been taking it for granted for so many years. I decided to go on this trip one week before we left, I had been on this trip before so I thought I knew what to expect, but this time I had no idea what I was in for.
When the

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