Mmmk lady...calm down

After we partook in the Meet a Need deal, we decided to grab a quick bite in the neighborhood, always down for some Mexican. Now the funny thing is, it took us about an hour to find people to serve to complete our task for the day, then all of a sudden people start popping up everywhere. First this lady tells us she is hungry, so we offer to buy her lunch, but instead she asks us to buy her some bread and juice at a little market when we get done. We then say, well come on with us and you can just pick out what you want. This was a learning experience...she went into the market and started picking out meat, juice, crackers, tampons, and thermaflu. She would ask, can I get this, and trying to be generous I just kept saying, oh yea that's fine, get what you want. The total...$32!!! Ahh!! But we were going to split the costs between 3 of us, so I was like whatever. We buy the stuff, pray for the lady, she walks us to the restaurant and we part ways. Well then, as we are about to order, she walks in the restaurant and asks us for money so she can get a BART ticket. I'm like, WHAT?, we just spent flipping 32 bucks on you lady (this is all mental). We ask her why and how much she needs, eight dollars, so we all give her a little change and apologize that we can't give her more. After that we decided that as a group we would offer people only $10 to spend if we did that again, otherwise we'd be broke in a hot minute.
Then we went to visit Chinatown since it was our day off. We met a lady, or man, I'm not really sure. He was Chinese and spoke gibberish, and we offered him/her a chewy bar but she/he refused it so we offered him/her an orange and she/he asked us to peel it for him/her. So we sat down and one of the girls peel the orange for this person.
Then we met another guy asking for money and offered him the chewy bar, but he said he only had one tooth so he couldn't eat it, but his friend took the offer and we apologized, but the first guy said it was okay and told us he needed to get himself some dental work.
Then we met another guy and offered him a granola bar, which he graciously took. Then another guy asked us for a down payment on a hamburger, which was too funny not to donate a little change to, and we shared a quick giggle with him.
I also bought 48 postcards for $6. Overall, it was a successful day and God really showed me how far simple ministry can go. I often try to think how I can do something BIG to serve a large amount of people but I become overwhelmed by it and end up doing nothing. Today, I got to be a part of serving over twelve people!! Sometimes we just need to look at the small pictures.