Throughout the mission trip the one thing that has really stuck with me is, perspective. We’ve helped in Staten Island rebuilding homes with sheet rock and going to Breezy Point and digging 4 feet deep trenches. Though those big things were much needed the smaller things made much more of an impact. Not just because it was needed but because the smaller things made the biggest impact on my heart. In Staten Island not only were we putting in sheetrock but we were organizing a shed and a garage. When we had finished moving all the sheetrock Pastor Steve then asked us to organize and inventory the shed and garage. We broke off in groups and I looked at the garage and just had a bad attitude. Not wanting to count any of those things I put in half the effort. Not until a little while through it someone said “can’t we just approximate the number? Does it really matter?” Jen, our NYSUM leader, then looked at us and told us “Guys, we’re here to help, we don’t want to give only half our energy. Everything will help, lets do everything to the fullest! “ At that point my whole perspective changed, even for the small things that impacted Pastor Steve and his church. I then started to give full energy and not only did it help, but man did it get the job done faster! Though it took a little while we counted everything! There were 5,698 face masks! After we were done we went to sit in the office with Pastor Steve and we gave him the list and he looked at it in amazement. He looked up at us and just said how thankful he was and how much even this small task helped so much. At that point it really just made me realize, why am I only giving half of my effort for something that deserves all of it.
- Briana Royster
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