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Trip to Mexicalli When I was sophomore in high school I took a trip to a place that would forever change my life. I went on a mission trip down to Mexicalli. I was anxiously waiting for it for months upon months. But I really didn't know what to expect when I got down there. Me and a whole group of people from my church prepared for the Mexicalli for many months to get ready to go down to Mexico and share the word of God, to all the people down where we were going. We had many meetings and workshop things before the day finally came.

We had to learn some Spanish songs and learn how to kind of speak a little Spanish before we left. There were different teams that people were on when we got down there. There was a Bible school team, and also a construction team that went out of the camp and fixed up peoples houses and other miscellaneous jobs to just help people out. I was on the construction crew and got to meet several different people. When I got down there I couldn't believe what these people have to live in day after day in the dirty filth and sanitation.

I began to really take for granted what we have back in the States and thankful we don't have to live without electricity like some people didn't even have and some people did not have showers in over a month or if not longer. I really got to see up close how it was to basically live in pure poverty and realized that I would never ever want to live in conditions like those people were living in. I for one thing got to see it first hand because I had to go out in the villages or towns and help people fix up their houses. One man that we helped had a major leak in his house for 2 years and could not afford to get it fixed and whenever it rained hard enough it would get his whole house soaked inside and it would just ruin every little bit that he and his family had. I just couldn't believe that people could have a whole family live literally in huts.

The trip really strengthened my faith in God because he brought me down to place that I had only seen on TV before and never realized how grateful I really should be. And that God has giving me all my family and cars and my house that we just look at everyday needs for our life. And people down there basically have to walk everywhere they want to go and have run down and low quality houses. I got to really share the word of God while I was even working at peoples houses and they would listen and want to hear more and more each day we came.

Overall I just really had a good experience. That mission trip was a really good in a way that it really makes you look at what you have and why we always want more and more when there are people that don't even have a quarter of what we have in the United States. Its just a really life changing experience.