The Sin City Experience with Fruit Cove Baptist Church Essay

During summer of 2012, my life was altered in a place no one would expect. I took the call, as well as 23 others to go on a mission trip, with Fruit Cove Baptist Church and never knew the impact it would have on me. We woke up around 3am to arrive at the church, to set off on the beginning of our adventure to help change the world one heart at a time. Finally, we arrived at the Jacksonville airport, waiting a few hours till we reached the time to sit on the Southwest Airlines. Hours have past, and we are getting closer, my team and I couldnt be more thrilled and excited for whats going to happen next. As we landed and got our bags and headed into the Las Vegas airport, the casino instantly bombards us, we were in a whole new atmosphere. We sit down to discuss the outlook for the week. We were going to go in pairs of two to go door to door in every neighborhood in Vegas to pass out flyers for the event we were hosting at the end of the week on Saturday. We were introduced to the church their that we were partnering with called Lifesong church. Loaded up in the van, we were finally going to get in some air conditioning. We arrive at the hotel and had a few hours to settle in. Later on, we get together to sign up for what part of the festival we wanted to volunteer for, my pick nothing better but snow cones!! For the next 4 passing days we fought the intense heat, the long hours, and set out to go door to door. Being their its nothing like anything Ive ever experience, no one is friendly and everyone seems to just keep to themselves, so automatically your going to be a little taken back by something so different from what your used to. During...

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