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For the past seven years, I have been going on summer mission trips with my youth group. Every year I raise all the money for my trip as they have gotten rather expensive. Many of my sponsors have been supporting me on every trip I’ve been on, or at least the last two or three, and whenever I return home from one of my trips I sit down and write a letter of thanks to them telling them what lessons their contributions have allowed me the opportunity to learn abroad. Just keeping up with these relationships alone has taught me a great deal about myself and about people in general, and forces me, each summer, to assess my own personal growth and document it in these letters. My most recent adventure was to the lush mountains of Jamaica. There, in an impoverished ghost town, God taught me perseverance and patience through a little girl and gratefulness and humility through a mural. One day I had the amazing opportunity to help a young girl about the age of 9 to improve her reading skills. I was reading Jane Eyre for school before dinner, when she came up to me and asked what I was doing.
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