When I showed up on Friday, Andrew gave me some time to sit before I got to work. I moved in and got started on a paper, and then headed to the Lodge to help clean. I then went to the AC and tackled clean-up there with Patrick. I noticed that there is a lot of painting going on. It is looking good! I then headed to the kitchen for a few hours. I worked on Monster Cookies and used a cheese slicer for the first time! I had a chapel group, and so when it was time for the younger boys to leave chapel, we took them to the Dining Hall and Luke lead them in a round of My Little Red Wagon. It was HYSTERICAL! Don't believe me? This video is from the next day and just as funny! Enjoy!
My sidekick for the weekend was Amy. We had a fun time with our 5 boys! Our first night we talked a lot about sports injuries. We played Johnny and Indian Numbers. They didn't like those games too much. I think they might have been just a tad tricky.
The next day, I was in the kitchen at 7am. I wielded the spatula that flipped all the pancakes. I didn't even want to eat any when it was time for me to eat breakfast! The morning lesson proved interesting. There were so many distraction with the plague of Mayflies that descended on camp the night before. One of our boys did want to look up verses and read them out loud! After watching countless games of Gau-Gau, I was headed to the Craft Room to oversee crafts and rockets. It was not hard, and so I was able to journal and spend some time in my devos. I was so hungry by the time I could eat lunch that I got seconds. I have never gotten seconds at camp...EVER! I learned at supper why I never should again. After lunch, I had my break and got a little bit more of my dreaded paper done before heading back to the craft room. It was pretty mellow, so I decorated a few pages in my journal with punches and stamps. I also worked on a couple of Paracord bracelets and chatted with Megan and Jana for a while. I headed back to the kitchen and did odds and ends sorts of things. I LOVE Mexican Pile-Up. It is one of my favorites, and it doesn't matter if I think I will pace myself with a little of this and a little of that, it still manages to load up a plate. I wasn't as hungry because of my second sandwich at lunch and struggled through my plate. No more seconds for me! I helped clean up before it was time for chapel. Every time I do a chapel group, we pray at the end and I invite everyone to pray. There is no pressure and I always ask for prayer requests first. I was able to get 4 out of the 5 to pray almost every time! One of the boys thanked God for S'mores! How stinkin' cute is that?! :) We headed off to Gau-Gau, and Amy and I both had fun beating all of the boys a couple of games in a row! My shins are like 2 peaches waiting to be bruised and I barely got hit with the ball and I still have a red mark a day later! One of our boys brought Amy and I both a chunk of Lilac!
We got S'mores! One of the boys offered to make me one, but the fire was so hot that he was back a few feet, and there was no way those marshmallows were going to get golden! :) I headed to be early and was in bed by the time anyone else came up. Jana, Sarah, and I started talking about the upcoming week, people who would be showing up, and past camp memories. I got so excited that it was hard to go to sleep despite my exhaustion! I'm just so excited to start another summer at camp! :)
Today, I was in the kitchen at 7am again. It was a lot easier because it was baked oatmeal. Who can pass that up? ;) I made brownie crinkle cookies before heading off to chapel. One of the boys was ready and waiting to lead Little Red Wagon in Luke's absence. For the lesson, I talked about telling others about Jesus and passing along the power. When we took prayer requests, the boy in the photo above said he wanted to be saved! We prayed as a group and headed to Gau-Gau. Amy and I sat down with this boy and he knew the answers to all the questions I asked him, and he was ready to take that next step. He prayed and asked Jesus to come live in his heart! He is so hungry for God, and I pray that that hunger he has would never go away! When the dads got out of chapel, I headed back to the kitchen. I had already cracked and scrambled a bunch of eggs, cooked the green beans, cracked more eggs, and finished the cookies before grabbing a plateful. I was not ready to leave, but I have my bunk already staked out for Staff Training. I'm sad I can't be there the whole week, but I am excited to see who I will be staying with for the few days that I am there! I will end this post with another happy picture from the weekend! :)
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