The Week after Palmer Home

So I am super excited that I found a blog where I can post pictures! Last week was Spring Break and I went with my college group to Palmer Home in Columbus, Mississippi. It was my very first missions trip. It was a very wonderful yet challenging experience. The little girl in my picture is Kristin. Her and I really hit it off. She is a really sweet little girl and now we are pen pails (via e-mail). The trip is probably exactly what I expected it to be. I kind of expected to be working a lot more but I think what we put in is probably all I could take. Every day we would wake up around 7:30, although at the end of the week is was more like 7:55. We would head to a home cooked, country breakfast at 8 and around 9 o'clock we would head off to work. I was assigned to work in the thrift store that's funds went straight to the children. We spent 1 1/2 days at the store in Columbus and the rest of the time at the store in Starkville. All of us girls loved the Starkville store because it was much smaller and more intimate. We had so much fun there. We got so much accomplished at the end of the week. It was an amazing sight to see when most all of the clothes we had been sorting through were hung up and put out on the floor. It was incredible how big the room we were working in was when there wasn't piles and piles of clothes covering every inch. I really enjoyed this trip. I got to get to know some people in RUF a lot more, I got to experience serving others, and the weather was absolutely beautiful. I also learned a little about photography while I was up there thanks to Shea and Anne.