Week 1 Recap!

Wow. My first week of camp is over and done and now its the weekend and I am home again!

There are several words I could use to describe this week. Interesting, full, busy, hard, overwhelming, fun, relaxing during breaks, exciting, and many more. With as many words as I can think of to describe the past week not one fits perfectly. maybe this is because God wanted me to learn many things this past week. Patience with kids and other things, to rely on him more than I ever have, and most importantly to learn from the challenges he has put in front of me. (this is a picture of the outdoor chapel!)

I had a great group of girls this week. They were all different in many ways. I had the girls who had been to camp who knew how everything worked. Some who hadn't been to camp at all, and didn't like it, while others did like it. I had one girl who thought she knew everything and had a smart comment about everything.

As different as they were, she taught me the most this week. She taught me to have patience and to respect her and to teach her about Jesus because that might be only chance she ever gets to hear the word. As much as I wanted to say something smart right back to her, I didn't and couldn't. I held it back because I knew she couldn't help it that much. I could tell it was the way the she was raised. She talked like she was about 5 or 10 years older than she was. Even though she was smart, she still was respectful most of the time. She really taught me that I might give her the only bible study of her life, and I might be the only one she ever comes in contact with that will share the Word about Jesus with her. Knowing this, really kept me going this week!

This coming week we have 2 mini camps. We have a mother/daughter camp on Monday and Tuesday. Then we have another camp towards the end of the week. There aren't may girls signed up for the second secession so I am coming home on Thursday night so I can be home on Friday for my birthday. I got to talk to Evan on weds night for a while because I had the night off. I am going to drive to Black Mountain on Saturday to see him for the first time in 3 weeks. I honestly can not wait to see him. He also has a day off in July and hopefully I will be able to drive to see him then also! When I talked to him he said his campers where also great. He also had one who he was/is going to have to work with. He is loving it there and learning/teaching a lot. It was really great to talk to him for the first time in about 5 days. I'm really excited for him for the rest of his camp also, and wish him the best!

I have never had a camp with Mother daughters both. From what I hear it can be a challenging experience yet a rewarding one also. I am excited yet nervous. I think it will be this way every time because they will be new kids and new mothers. But thats ok!

I am really excited for the days and special dates to come. My birthday is on friday, I get to see Evan on saturday (the best birthday wish!!), I get to paint during worship at camp coming up in the next week or 2, 11 months for Evan an I is on July 7th, I might get to see him again on the 24th is it works out, camp coming to an end on August 7th, 1 year for Evan & I is also on the 7th, I move to Tigerville/NGU on the 13th. With all of these exciting and very eventful weeks to come, I know in my heart God is showing me his wonderful plan for my life. While some things might go as I planned, they are going just as planned according to him. Also with all these events coming up I am going to you all to pray for me that I keep my eyes on him and his plan and not focus on my own. As much as I would love to things go as I want it to, I know often times it doesn't. So if you all could please pray I stay focused on him, camp goes well for both Evan & I, the we both are able to share Gods word to the best of our ability to our campers & that they learn something from us, also for my family as I have some life changing things that are going to take place.

Thanks everyone for all the prayers!

If you want to talk to me, your more than welcome to email me or call me and I will get back to you as soon as I can!

Thanks!:)