Two Significant Events That Change Your Life

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In everyone’s life there is one or two significant events that change them. In August of 2015 I traveled to Buenos Aires, Argentina for ten days with my church on a missionary trip. The experience of being exposed to a culture outside my own showed me how diverse, yet similar people can be.
Being able to first-handedly be apart of a different culture brought to life the fact that humans are basically the same anywhere you go and are interwoven by the same values and interests. Being able to easily build relationships with people who did not even speak the same language as me impacted me greatly, showing me that I have common interests with people on the other side of the hemisphere. Experiencing the Argentine culture in real life taught

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