This past week during my spring break from Kansas State I made my trip over to the state of Arizona for the first time. I went with 16 students college/high school/ youth. All of them I knew or had the chance to get to know them during the mission trip and all of them have different personalities. This trip had a little bit of everything that you would get from a week mission trip like this one including a new nickname, haha! I would say that I'm glad that I went on this trip. Originally, I wasn't planning on going anywhere but I change my mind about it and had some help along the way. Also, this a group that I go to church with on Sundays as well...Manhattan Church of Christ.
Saturday 3/17: It all started early in the morning around 6 o'clock everybody is in the vans ready to head out to Prescott, AZ. The original plan was to stop in Albuquerque, New Mexico for the night but because of a snow storm around the area (Prescott) and the unknowns of it we could most like beat the storm. So the staff changed the plans to try and make it in one trip which basically took us almost 24 hours to complete including stops. I helped drive out there as well a good 5-6 hours out there as well. My first drive through the state of New Mexico was good; all I saw mostly were big trucks driving down the highway...around 2 or 3am Pacific time we got into Prescott finally but we ran into the snow storm; the cabin was sitting on top of a mountain so we tried to drive our van through the snow and it wasn't happening. Our van got stuck on several occasions nearly hit the railing...most of us got out in the cold snow and push the van out of the hole that we dug ourselves in. Our group ended up staying at a church that one of the staff people stayed at while living in Arizona. Flip side of that there's a mini story behind staying there because we actually broke into the church, yeah that's right broke in. I'm not sure who but a few people help out with that and we let ourselves in and finally around 4 or 5am when to sleep...
Sunday 3/18: Because of the storm we thought that their wasn't going to be service the next morning but almost 15 minutes before I guess Sunday School started we got up in a hurry put the stuff away and went to the main service. We had potluck right after service with the members of church before finally going up to the cabin. A couple in Prescott helped us get all of our things together because he had a 4-wheel drive vehicle that can get us up the road even though the road were paved. At the bible base cabin with the snow starting back up again we made it there. Snow falling once again, a bunch of the guys including myself gone some or I should say a quite of but of firewood to put in the cabin because the place inside wasn't really warm. Others chopped wood at the same time.
(To Be Continued)
-Eddie III (EGIII)
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