I am currently writing this in a half wakened stupor. I have had so little sleep this last week with 10 year olds in my cabin. It was the best week ever though! I had so much fun and all the girls were really into cabin clean up and the games and unity. We did a lot of extra things for them like sleeping in the skatepark and giving them smores and hot chocolate one night because they were just so awesome. I had a CIT in my cabin too helping me counsel and she was really good, which helped a lot. We won cabin clean up sundaes too on the last day which is really fun.
About the fall, I think that I have decided to stay here for September until October 3. They need help with transition to the fall and getting ready for guest groups starting again. I would be helping in the kitchen which I love so it will be good. I don’t know for sure yet, seems like I have developed a fear of commitment though these years. Then I would go home after that in October for a bit and then find a job and live in Vancouver until Leia’s wedding and maybe for longer. I really can’t wait to plan her wedding with her and just hang out before she is married. Right now this seems like what God is leading me to do. When I am praying or reading my Bible I feel like I am in the right place but then when I am on my own it seems that I should go home, but then that’s because I really miss football and tv and making good food and other things that are in the real world.
This next week is Youth camp and I am counselling again. I am not that excited about it right now but maybe as the day goes on and we find out all the new and exciting things that are going on this week I will be more amped up. I am really going to miss Lonnie and Doug especially from camp and will have to visit them lots in the fall and the year. It has been a great summer that went sosososo fast. I can’t believe that it is August 30 today!! Later days.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Monday, August 17, 2009
Last Junior High Camp
My loyal blog readers,
I have been tremendously blessed this week to have a week out of counselling. The assistant crew chief of maintenance really felt it on her heart to counsel a week at camp and so the maintenance team needed someone that could step into her role as a leader for the team. They picked me and I am so humbled to be used this way. I got my keys of authority yesterday and have since relearned a ton of stuff about cleaning bathrooms and whatnot. The maintenance crew this week is really good and I am excited to work with them. I went really hard yesterday cleaning all sorts of things when I really need to take it easier a bit. There is so much more down time doing this job and I am pumped to get a little bit more sleep and rest. I am still getting over a cold so if you could pray that it would go away, that would be great.
Right now I am really struggling with the future. I have placed it in God’s hands, well maybe not fully if I am holding onto some worry, but for the most part I am trusting God. I just don’t know what to do. There is a bit of camp wrap up stuff I could help out with for a couple weeks, or I could move to the lower mainland and spend the last 4 months of Leia’s singleness with her:) I really miss her and would love to hang out a bit before our family dynamic changes. So if you could also pray for me and just being peaceful about what God is going to do in me and that He will give me a path to follow to take action in the next couple of days.
This last week was pretty good. I really felt closer to the girls by the end of the week, they were hugging me and wanting to hang out a bit. One girl I really got close to and gave her a Bible by the end of the week because she really wanted to read some Bible stories and the New Testament Gideon ones they get at camp just aren’t enough. She was such a blessing in my cabin amongst girls that thought that they were too good for me and the camp. She asked a ton of questions and said that what the speaker said was more stuff than she had thought about before.
Other than that, not much is new. No really cool stories from this past week and not too much to report on in the future week. The week after is juniors again and then youth camp. I am excited to not have to do another junior high camp and am looking forward to the curiosity and energy of the juniors. Many of the junior counsellors this summer or CIT are coming to youth camp as campers, so that should be interesting and fun. They will be fun to hang out with and we won’t have to do much as leaders other than pour into them spiritually and be there as support. It has been a good summer where God has truly been at work.
Later days!
I have been tremendously blessed this week to have a week out of counselling. The assistant crew chief of maintenance really felt it on her heart to counsel a week at camp and so the maintenance team needed someone that could step into her role as a leader for the team. They picked me and I am so humbled to be used this way. I got my keys of authority yesterday and have since relearned a ton of stuff about cleaning bathrooms and whatnot. The maintenance crew this week is really good and I am excited to work with them. I went really hard yesterday cleaning all sorts of things when I really need to take it easier a bit. There is so much more down time doing this job and I am pumped to get a little bit more sleep and rest. I am still getting over a cold so if you could pray that it would go away, that would be great.
Right now I am really struggling with the future. I have placed it in God’s hands, well maybe not fully if I am holding onto some worry, but for the most part I am trusting God. I just don’t know what to do. There is a bit of camp wrap up stuff I could help out with for a couple weeks, or I could move to the lower mainland and spend the last 4 months of Leia’s singleness with her:) I really miss her and would love to hang out a bit before our family dynamic changes. So if you could also pray for me and just being peaceful about what God is going to do in me and that He will give me a path to follow to take action in the next couple of days.
This last week was pretty good. I really felt closer to the girls by the end of the week, they were hugging me and wanting to hang out a bit. One girl I really got close to and gave her a Bible by the end of the week because she really wanted to read some Bible stories and the New Testament Gideon ones they get at camp just aren’t enough. She was such a blessing in my cabin amongst girls that thought that they were too good for me and the camp. She asked a ton of questions and said that what the speaker said was more stuff than she had thought about before.
Other than that, not much is new. No really cool stories from this past week and not too much to report on in the future week. The week after is juniors again and then youth camp. I am excited to not have to do another junior high camp and am looking forward to the curiosity and energy of the juniors. Many of the junior counsellors this summer or CIT are coming to youth camp as campers, so that should be interesting and fun. They will be fun to hang out with and we won’t have to do much as leaders other than pour into them spiritually and be there as support. It has been a good summer where God has truly been at work.
Later days!
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
A little breather
Greetings!
I was just looking back on this thing and realized that I haven't written on this thing in a long time. Sorry my loyal readers. Well 5 weeks of the summer are done and only 4 left after this one. We have had 3 junior high camps and 2 juniors camps. My favorite weeks were juniors 1 and junior high 2. I loved the girls in my cabin and other girls at the camp too. This week is family camp and then there are 2 weeks of junior high camps, 1 juniors, and 1 youth camp. I am working in the kitchen for these 4 days of family camp and then tomorrow until Saturday I have 3 days off. Everyone who works all summer for the 10 weeks gets 3 days off to do whatever. We have to be back on Saturday for a staff dev. day where we are going to Nanaimo to go swimming, eat pizza, eat ice cream, and chill on the beach. I literally mean chill too. It will be fun.
Tomorrow Lonnie and I are going to Vancouver to see Leia, spend some time on the mainland visiting friends, and then going to the BC Lions and Roughriders game on Friday night. We are super stoked for that. I have got to do more relaxing this week but it's more like the real world and I am not really looking forward to the fall. I already miss the campers and having every minute of every day planned out exactly where I should be. I miss interacting with kids all the time and being able to pour God's love into them all the time. Even being in my cabin (42) which is in complete darkness and super quiet, I miss. The cabin I am staying in this week is right by a lot of lights, far from the bathroom and right where everyone walks so super loud. I finally had a good sleep last night so that was good.
This last week of campers was a little trying on my patience and grace from God. We had a girl that had to be sent home for disobeying camp rules, another close call, a sick girl went home, and two had to go home early because they couldn't get a ride on the last day of camp. Last week was full of rebel kids and people wanting to couple up all the time and girls that were more concerned about their hair and make up then anything else. It was ridiculous. We even had to have a no mirror day just so that we could focus on inner beauty rather than outward appearance. I feel like the Holy Spirit finally got through on the last night though when we had a fireside sharing and the girls opened up about things that were going on at home and what they needed prayer for. I have kept in contact with many campers on facebook and through email so far so it's exciting. It will be hard to stay in touch but I hope that I can to keep building into them. We can plant the seed but God will water it.
The Lord has been at work here at camp in miraculous ways. We see His mercy, grace and love everyday. It's so awesome. He has been at work in me building up a lot patience, helping me help others, opening my eyes to see needs in other people. and being way more spontaneous. Like this weekend we don't even have anything planned yet and it's tomorrow that we need to know what we are doing. It's kind of fun. More like a free spirit than anything else. I have also not let things bother me as much and not stressed about things that aren't in my control. Praise God for being gracious with me and moulding me into someone that can be used for His glory.
I just want to tell you one thing about this last week. None of my girls wanted to play any of the wide games because they thought that they were too cool. But I had so much energy this week because it was so, so hot. Like 40 degrees or 35 plus every day. It was so good because instead of having my body trying to keep me warm all the time I just was warm and sweated a lot. I had sosososo much energy and was raring to go. So on the last day was Mission Impossible and I don't really like that game but as a counselor I had a map and so the kids on my color came up to me and asked me where to go. I asked them to go with me and so it ended up being me and these two boys named German and Hunter and at some points we had some other colored people coming with us too. It was so much fun. We ran lots, got caught, went to every station and got most of the plane ticket which is the thing we are trying to get. I loved it. It was pretty much a highlight of my week.
Well I should get going back to being sociable or just make some tea. LOL. Thanks for being such avid readers. Hopefully soon I will have some pics to put up. As for now, keep it real!
I was just looking back on this thing and realized that I haven't written on this thing in a long time. Sorry my loyal readers. Well 5 weeks of the summer are done and only 4 left after this one. We have had 3 junior high camps and 2 juniors camps. My favorite weeks were juniors 1 and junior high 2. I loved the girls in my cabin and other girls at the camp too. This week is family camp and then there are 2 weeks of junior high camps, 1 juniors, and 1 youth camp. I am working in the kitchen for these 4 days of family camp and then tomorrow until Saturday I have 3 days off. Everyone who works all summer for the 10 weeks gets 3 days off to do whatever. We have to be back on Saturday for a staff dev. day where we are going to Nanaimo to go swimming, eat pizza, eat ice cream, and chill on the beach. I literally mean chill too. It will be fun.
Tomorrow Lonnie and I are going to Vancouver to see Leia, spend some time on the mainland visiting friends, and then going to the BC Lions and Roughriders game on Friday night. We are super stoked for that. I have got to do more relaxing this week but it's more like the real world and I am not really looking forward to the fall. I already miss the campers and having every minute of every day planned out exactly where I should be. I miss interacting with kids all the time and being able to pour God's love into them all the time. Even being in my cabin (42) which is in complete darkness and super quiet, I miss. The cabin I am staying in this week is right by a lot of lights, far from the bathroom and right where everyone walks so super loud. I finally had a good sleep last night so that was good.
This last week of campers was a little trying on my patience and grace from God. We had a girl that had to be sent home for disobeying camp rules, another close call, a sick girl went home, and two had to go home early because they couldn't get a ride on the last day of camp. Last week was full of rebel kids and people wanting to couple up all the time and girls that were more concerned about their hair and make up then anything else. It was ridiculous. We even had to have a no mirror day just so that we could focus on inner beauty rather than outward appearance. I feel like the Holy Spirit finally got through on the last night though when we had a fireside sharing and the girls opened up about things that were going on at home and what they needed prayer for. I have kept in contact with many campers on facebook and through email so far so it's exciting. It will be hard to stay in touch but I hope that I can to keep building into them. We can plant the seed but God will water it.
The Lord has been at work here at camp in miraculous ways. We see His mercy, grace and love everyday. It's so awesome. He has been at work in me building up a lot patience, helping me help others, opening my eyes to see needs in other people. and being way more spontaneous. Like this weekend we don't even have anything planned yet and it's tomorrow that we need to know what we are doing. It's kind of fun. More like a free spirit than anything else. I have also not let things bother me as much and not stressed about things that aren't in my control. Praise God for being gracious with me and moulding me into someone that can be used for His glory.
I just want to tell you one thing about this last week. None of my girls wanted to play any of the wide games because they thought that they were too cool. But I had so much energy this week because it was so, so hot. Like 40 degrees or 35 plus every day. It was so good because instead of having my body trying to keep me warm all the time I just was warm and sweated a lot. I had sosososo much energy and was raring to go. So on the last day was Mission Impossible and I don't really like that game but as a counselor I had a map and so the kids on my color came up to me and asked me where to go. I asked them to go with me and so it ended up being me and these two boys named German and Hunter and at some points we had some other colored people coming with us too. It was so much fun. We ran lots, got caught, went to every station and got most of the plane ticket which is the thing we are trying to get. I loved it. It was pretty much a highlight of my week.
Well I should get going back to being sociable or just make some tea. LOL. Thanks for being such avid readers. Hopefully soon I will have some pics to put up. As for now, keep it real!
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