San Fransisco Mission Trip

This past week I went to San Fransisco on a mission trip with an organization called CSM or Center for Student Missions. We had a wonderful city host named Mckenzie. We drove a long 12 hours to get to San Fransisco starting at 5:00 am on the 29th of June. The city itself isn't very big but there are many people of different cultures and many buildings packed together. We stayed in an Baptist church in lower Haight. On the first night we went to a Honduran resturaunt called La Piasa Resturante and had burritos and tacos that were delicious with some bannana plantains. On the second day we helped out at the Salvation Army and helped with their kids camp. We did a skit for them and my brother brad dressed up as a dog named Cooper. We went to the park with the kids and played with them their for most of the day. For dinner that night we went to a Tai resturaunt called Zen Kai. After that we went on a prayer tour where we saw many districts of the city. Some of these districts were in poverty and some were very wealthy. We went to this one point in the city where you can see a view of the entire city! The next day we went to a place called St. Vincent De Paul Society, where we served food for lower income and homeless people. After that we drove to Berkely and did a thing called Meet a Need. We got $20 and we could use it in any way to help a person or a group of people. We meet many cool people in this park called People's Park and ended up buying this guy named Ken some movie tickets, because it was something that he really wanted to do. We also handed out giftcards to people that we had brought along with us. After that we ended up walking around the Berkely campus, which was really beautiful. For dinner we went to a Indian Resturuant called One Dollar Curry House. The next day we helped out with the San Fransisco Rescue Mission, we helped with preparing food, sorting clothes in a thrift store, and helping with a church service. That night we went to an Italian resturaunt in North Beach called Pasta Pomadero. After that we went to Fisherman's Warfe and Giradeli Square. The next day we helped out at the Alameada Food Bank, where we sorted about 4 tons of oranges. Then we went and did a thing called a City Search, where we only got two dollars for lunch, a bus ticket, and money for a phone call. We had to leave other money, watches, jewelry, phones, etc., behind. We did this in the Haight Ashbury area. We ended up combining our money and buying a pizza and sharing it with this homeless guy in the park. That night we ate at the Baptist church and had burritos from a place called Azteca Mexican. Then we had a worship service with everyone there. The next day we went and passed out peanut butter and jelly sandwhiches to people in this square of San Fransisco. After that we went to a hospital called Luguna Honda and helped with the residents there. For dinner we went to this Chinese Resturaunt close to China Town. After we walked around China Town, where I bought a Komno. The next two days we spent time in Taho and stayed in a cabin on the lake. We got back yesterday at 6:30. It was an amazing trip!