down to their elementary area and help teach the little kids, or basically anything that we can do, that we will fit in with."
“So cooking, or whatever they need for the day,” Anna continued. “Or cleaning up different areas.”
“Or if they need someone to play with the kids, or watch them,” Caydence added.
The girls will be there from June 3 to 17, and then will have an extra two-day tour. They laughed, saying that they don’t know too much about the trip yet, but will receive a packet soon which will tell them more about their itinerary.
The girls spoke about their reasons for signing up for this missionary trip, and the close friends traded com- ments, even finishing each other's thoughts.
Anna said she has always been interested in missionary work, and thought “Do I want to do this for the rest of my life? So I just think this is a good way to try it out. But also, we’re seniors and graduating, so this is one last thing that we want to do together. Because this is one of the things that we bond on.”
Caydence added, “Yeah, like Anna is saying. I’m not necessarily going to go into it (missionary work), but this summer, me and Anna were driving around and talking about this kind of stuff, and we thought we’d be interested in doing this.
“I’ve recently gotten more into my faith,” she continued, “so I thought this would be a good experience for me. I just thought it would be cool to help other people. And we’ve never done anything like this.”
“Yes, it’s going to be different to leave the country,” Anna added.
“It’ll be good to do this before college,” Caydence said.
“A lot of people tell us ‘I wish I would have done that,’ and I don’t want to say (later), ‘oh I wish I would have done it,’” Anna commented.
As far as what they’re looking forward to, and what they’re nervous about, they are both looking forward to interacting with the kids. They have also seen pictures from other trips where the groups have gone on safaris and there are wild animals in the background, which seemed to make them just a little nervous.
In the area where the girls will be working, they might not have to worry about that though. They stated that they will be staying near a refugee camp with about 100,000 refugees, so it will not be a rural setting. They will have about a five-minute walk to the camp, and will be staying in a school building.
To pay for some of the costs involved, their families are hosting a fundraiser this weekend. Other than that, they said, they have asked for funds from family and friends, but otherwise that is the only fund-raising they will be doing. They were told a certain amount that they need to raise, to pay for their flight to Washington, D.
C., and then everything else is paid for.
The girls will be sharing their experiences with this newspaper when they return from their trip to Uganda, as well as pictures from their trip.
