PradipAdhikari

Journal

4th day

11/03/09

Pradip Adhikari

Sally Campbell

Nashville Rescue Mission

Today was the last day for our service to the homeless people. We worked for the Nashville Rescue Mission today. We started to work from 8:00 AM. We worked on the basement donation storage area. We met Brother Thomas over there who was very good person, he supervised us today. We were asked to sort different kinds of canned foods that had been stored in that place. We worked over that place till our lunch and we ate our lunch over there.

After the lunch we were asked to sort different clothing that was donated for the homeless people. We sorted out the bed sheets and other different clothing. While we were working over there I got to meet one person over there. He told me how he had become homeless because he used different kinds of drugs. He went on to say that after being homeless he came to the Nashville Rescue Mission where he learnt to leave drugs and become good person. He also told how he has changed his life and he has been working on the Nashville Rescue Mission hoping to change the life of other more homeless people. I was so happy to listen his story, as he never lost hope in his life and how he even though going through many difficulties in his life had changed himself to a good and independent person.

We got our work done at 3:00 PM. Nashville Rescue Mission had planned a special Dinner for us. Every one of us felt so much honored that we were given such a special dinner. The food over there was very good. Everyone enjoyed the food and thanked them for giving us such a special treat. All of us were really happy. Since we had been there for such a long time we had developed some kind of connection with the peoples over there. Since today was the last day of our day there we were feeling bad that we would have to be away from them. Overall it was a very good day and I think it was a very successful trip. Everyone in the trip had learned something coming over in this trip.