Sr. High Missin Trip Day # 1 (Monday) - by Sasha Hege

We went to Ms. Mary’s house for our mission trip. There we started to put up ceiling tiles. We learned how to put them in by Mr. Bruce (our site coordinator with UMCOR - United Methodist Committee on Relief). While we were putting up tile we learned that Katie Sands had pink eye and had to go home. When we got back we had dinner of spaghetti and we couldn’t use forks knifes or spoons. Jillianne had planned a different 'out of your comfort zone' task at each meal! People got creative and used cups and tongs but most people just used their hands. After dinner we had program where we sang a song and then Jillianne came around with a bag of m&m’s. It was our group's way of de-briefing the work day! For every m&m we had to say different topics about the day. For example, if you had a brown you had to praise another youth, yellow was something you learned, and red was to talk about a moment that frustrated you, and so on. We learned that when Jillianne says to only take a few, she means it. Several of us took large handfuls! :) Our topic for the night was Spiritual Gifts! We took a survey about what our spiritual gifts are. We also did a gift exchange with gifts we had bought earlier in the day at the dollar store.