I spent many years of high school going on numerous mission trips. God has given me such a passion for building relationships with people, especially people of different cultures. Last year I had the opportunity to go for a fourth time to the Dominican Republic for two weeks.  I had the opportunity to lead a group of high school students in both worship and discipleship throughout the week. La Canela was the place where in just two weeks God used our team to bring many lives to know him. But more than just that, He taught me a very valuable lesson, not from a book, or a sermon, but because of a young Dominican child named Alfredo. From the first day he walked in, I was immediately drawn to his beaming smile. I don't think I ever saw that smile leave his face. In America I get so caught up in the mindset of having "high moments" in my day and "low moments." Looking at Alfredo, I noticed he didn't have low moments. It wasn't that bad things didn't happen to him. He would say he was hungry, most likely a different kind of hunger than I have ever felt before. In those two weeks I saw him wearing the same clothes over and over again, but never once heard a complaint. One day we all got caught in an awful rainstorm when we were supposed to being doing door-to-door evangelism. Normally, that would have been a low moment for me, stuck in the rain under a rickety shelter when I could have been meeting people in the community. But seeing Alfredo playing in the rain, asking me to sing and do the motions with him to his favorite song "Celebrad, Cristo, Celebrad," put everything into perspective. Life may not always bring the best circumstances, but like Alfredo, I need to strive to "Celebrate, Jesus, Celebrate" in every situation. Like it says in John 10:10, Jesus came to gives us life and life to the fullest.