This Week...

So. The week is over and we leave tomorrow. I have to admit that this has been the most amazing week ever and that I am so grateful and appreciative of the people we got to know and interact with as well as those we helped in our service with Common Ground Relief. Working with the other volunteers and helping rebuild the house we worked on this week was an awesome experience that I will never forget. I also can't believe we got that much accomplished in 4 days! We completely dry-walled and almost finished mudding the house! Also, I have never had so many people come up to our group and thank us for what we are doing and let us know how great of a job we are doing and that we are really helping others in need. That was probably the most rewarding aspect of this trip: Not that we did hard work, but that others who were from the area were so grateful even though we weren't personally helping them-we were helping others! I know this experience has helped broaden how I look at peoples in poverty and those who are stricken with disaster that need help recovering because they may not have the resources to do it alone, and I will definitely be going on another service trip soon!