So this trip to Honduras I took a few years ago was incredibly life changing. Recommended for all!
This was a mission trip with our church, but you don’t have to go as part of a mission trip necessarily. There are several humanitarian groups that offer such trips to help fellow people in need. You can go to another country, or you can even work right in our own country, helping people fix their houses or perhaps building a trail in the forest for hikers to use safely.
Either way, the feeling of helping others is fantastic. It’s great to get out and see another culture and to see that we have so much compared to many other people. That can be good or bad. It was sobering to compare what we’re used to here next to what is a normal way of life for Hondurans on this tiny island. It’s so small, they walk everywhere – there are no roads, only dirt walking paths. Electricity is strung up by a single electrical line run from palm tree to palm tree and then into the house – if they have electricity at all. People who cannot afford land build their homes over the water in the lagoon. Toilets are merely a hole in the floor.
And yet, their way of life was so much more appealing than our lives of excess.