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Life can have many ups and downs. One positive thing that has happened to me is being able to go on Mission Trips with my local youth group. I have been on a total of four mission trips in my life. Each one I go on opens my eyes to God. It brings people together and allows everyone to go and help the communities out. The mission trips are filled with teenagers from all over Missouri, that go all over America to help out. All the mission trips are put together by the CCYM (Conference Council on Youth Ministries.) About two years ago our youth group, that consisted of about eight to ten people, got together and went on this journey together. This wonderful journey led us to Omaha, Nebraska. We began this trip on a Sunday morning. This was the beginning of our long journey to the great state of Nebraska. During our long trip to Nebraska we many played games along the way. My dad would say “who wants to play the alphabet game”. I would chime in with a “I do” along with three other people. There were also the not so great parts about the car ride up there. Our whole group as a whole whole would argue about the silliest of things. One person named Drake would constantly have to go to the bathroom and would just shout out “I’m going to pee my pants if we don't stop soon”. The end result would be all of us yelling at him about how we just stopped an …show more content…
hour ago. However, most of the ride was silent with people listening to their own music or sleeping. When we finally arrive at Omaha, Nebraska we are just ready to get out of the van. We then start to carry all of our luggage into the church. This isn't just a little church to say the least it’s a big, beautiful church. When we arrive inside we get to check out where we will be sleeping for the following week. Boys being downstairs and girls upstairs. All together there is probably one hundred youth and adults gathered at this church for the mission trip. The youth range from sixth to twelfth grade, and come from all over Missouri to lend a helping hand. When it seems as though everyone has made it. All of the adults go to have a little meeting about what our individual groups will be doing for the week to come. For us youth the CCYM have a plan for all of us to get to know each other. We play get to know each other games and a good game of link tag. Where you link up with a partner and you have a tagger, if someone joins your arm the person beside you has to run. It was a fun game to do and get comfortable with everyone. After the adults have returned we all venture our way to the chapel area. When we all get seated one of the CCYM member says “Welcome to Omaha and thanks for being able to come on this mission trip”. The CCYM then go on to tell us our lessons we will be learning about from the bible. This whole week we will be learning about Līfꔷdi’fīn’d. Which is what our mission trip shirt says along with the saying, Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and love your neighbor as yourself. Which I can’t think of a better lesson to learn about than to love yourself and others. This whole mission trip is about helping others and just loving yourself as a whole.
Which brings me to the first day. This day would have to be one of my favorites out of the whole mission trip. It taught me a lot about myself and how others view me. When we wake up that Monday morning we eat breakfast and our group gathers together to learn about what we will doing all day. We find out that we will be helping this elderly women named Betty. She is in her late seventies and needs help with redoing two sets of steps and some simple yard work. After we are told this information we go get in the van and travel to Betty’s
house. When we finally make it to Betty’s house I am ready to start the day. At first glance her house is little and yellow. It just screamed a little, old lady’s house on the outside. Which Beth our youth leader says “what a cute little house” and I couldn’t agree more. We all then get out and head towards the door. We are then greeted by sweet, old Betty. She says a simple”Hello, I'm so glad I have some help”. Which my dad replies with a “this is what we are here for, to help you out”. She then goes on tell what she wants us to do. Which is to repaint her two sets of steps and pull some simple weeds in the backyard. After that is all done we get divided into groups of who is doing what. Beth saying “the older kids get to start out with the steps and younger ones in the back”. Which my ecstatic about because I love to paint! However, it gets worse we I learn that I have to scrape all the paint chips that are coming off of the steps. But I knew I shouldn’t be complaining because we came on this mission trip to help people not whine about things. What seems like forever I get all the paint chips off of the steps.
Life can always change direction. We can have certain obstacles that challenge us. Sometimes this makes us stronger and we can always learn through these times. We always have
Mission San Juan Capistrano is a mission like no other. Mission San Juan Capistrano was founded in 1775 and in 1776. Serra’s Chapel was the first permanent building. It was made out of Adobe brick instead of wood. Local native Americans helped build the mission and hang the bells. The people worked for 8 days then stopped. They buried the mission. The people came back the next year to dig out and rebuild the mission. A neat fact about San Juan Capistrano is the brand of their livestock is the letters C,A and P twisted together. San Juan Capistrano is called the jewel of the missions. This unique mission is not an ordinary, everyday mission.
Missions were created to bring the word of God to a new land. They thought the Indians deserved a chance to go to heaven.. The country of Spain helped the Catholic church and the Spanish priests. They wanted to strengthen the Spanish Empire over in the New World. The thought they could teach the Indians how to be like the Spanish. Spain thought the Indians could become Spanish citizens. This would give the king more power. The missions were set up between 1769 and 1823 in California. The Spanish also build forts called "presidios." Presidios were supposed to protect California from foreign troops like the Russians and the British. Spain already had missions in Mexico. They went to Alta California which is not a part of Mexico. They made a trail of missions called the El Camino Real. El Camino Real means "Royal Highway" in Spanish. They called it this to honor the king of Spain. Each mission had a Franciscan priest called a "padre." Padre means "father" in Spanish. The head of the priests was Padre Junipero Serra.
After making the difficult decision of moving out from a school I called home and attended since Kindergarten, my freshman year in a new environment made for a rocky start. I fell into the wrong crowd, tried getting out, but kept making bad decisions, which eventually led to a deep depression. My dreams I had as a child were fading before my eyes, and negative thoughts consumed my mind. I started to believe that I had no purpose and could never amount to anything, but the four days at Camp Barnabas in Missouri changed the course of my entire life. This experience was important to me and helped sculpt me into the person I am today.
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Growing up on the south side of Chicago in the roughest neighborhood in the city I learned a lot from others and just observing my surroundings. At times, I would always think to myself my situation could always be worse than it was, and that there is always someone who is doing worst off than me. But my situation turned from being in a bad position to being in a position where my mother would come to lose her mother and our home that we had been living in, all in the same year. After losing her mother and bother my mom lost herself in her emotions and shut down on everyone and with that came the loss of a home for me and my siblings and her job. Shortly after my mom began to go back to church and so did we. It was the first time in a log time that we had attended church and it played a big part in a learning experience for me and my siblings. Through the days that came to pass going to church sparked a desire of wanting to help others who had or are struggling to get by. My mentor, Pastor, and teacher deserves appreciation for helping my mother through a hard time and keeping me and my siblings active in a positive manor.
The archetypal stages in books have been used since the works and discoveries of psychologist, like Carl Jung. Carl Jung saw archetypal stages as recurring images or patterns of situations that come from the unconscious mind. Whereas, Joseph Campbell, a mythologist who wrote a book The Hero of a Thousand Faces, a book about hero’s journeys, demonstrated how characters in books go through a series of stages in order to get to their final destination. In the novels, Jane Eyre and Their Eyes Were Watching God, the main characters all went through their own archetypal stages to get to their final journey to realize or discover their true destiny. Both of the main characters in these novels went through the four stages of the archetypal journey.
Vacations aren't always perfect there is always something that goes wrong. At least in my experiences. A perfect vacation to me is when we are all together as a family,which honestly doesn't happen that much. Having a 20 year old brother an 18 year old in post secondary school can make things complicated. Or having a vacation with no,ILLNESS, which can be very,very hard to do!! And I know I’m not the only one who has experienced this on a vacation!
At the age of seven, my life changed forever. I was no longer living in my native country; I was now a fragment of the millions of immigrants who come to the United States in search of the American Dream. At the time, my father had recently lost his job and my mother was unemployed, which caused incredible financial stress for my family. My father decided to risk his life crossing the Rio Grande River for our family to have a better life and greater rewards.
America, Almost every single person on earth has a dream of living in a country full of freedom, liberty, and opportunity. The United States has been providing these benefits ever since it was founded a few hundred years ago. So when I found out that my family would be coming to America, I had already started planning my future of growing up here. Just like any other person, I was feeling enthusiastic and a little nervous of leaving my native country and coming to America to start a better life. I was completely lost in my thoughts of happiness, that I became unaware of all the difficulties that my family and I would face once we step into our new lives. Among these difficulties were the change of language, change of system, and the variety of different cultures.
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Many changes for the good and some were bad but, there were some learning experiences that help make me a better person. The events in my life, was dealing with the Birth and The Death of my first daughter.
The journey of life follows a predetermined pattern; we evolve from needing influence and guidance to finally reaching that point where our lives are up to us. I consider myself very lucky up to this point in my journey. Some people become sidetracked and wind up on a far different course than initially planned, but the detours I made have only assisted in embellishing the individual instead of devouring it.
Throughout someone’s life they will go to many places with their family, friends, another relatives. I have been on a few vacations that have made a lasting impact on my life. But one of the most memorable vacations I have experienced was with my cousins. I went to goa beach. Most of you probably don’t know about that beach but it is a very famous one in south India. I enjoyed myself to the fullest. The beach environment was enlightening. I would not have wanted to take this trip with anyone other than my cousins. We had a great time on the ocean sands and swimming in the ocean everyday made this vacation unforgettable.