Leadership, Music, and Speech Camp

We have finished the first week of camp! There were about 60-70 campers this week, so it was a pretty small week of camp. I wasn't counseling, but I was able to play in the orchestra and sing in the choir. I also sang in a ladies' ensemble with campers a few times. We had the final concert on Friday night. I didn't have too many jobs to do this week, so I had a lot of free time. I prefer to be doing stuff instead of having nothing to do, so I was a little bored at times :), but Bethany also wasn't counseling this week, so we hung out a lot doing profitable things like swinging, talking, eating, etc. ;) I only went to the evening services this week, but they were very good. The Lord's continuing to work in my life and teach me things. One specific thing that I would appreciate prayer for is patience. Not in regards to people so much, but about circumstances in my life. A lot of the messages recently have been regarding waiting on the Lord, not being impatient, etc. I like to know what's coming ahead or reasons for things, but I'm learning to wait on the Lord and to trust Him to show me in His timing. This next week is Family Camp 1, and so far I'm assigned to work in the infant nursery during the evening services. It should be fun and interesting. :) (for those of you who know me well :)) I've never been to a family camp of any sort before, so it will be cool to see how it works. Please pray that the Lord would work in hearts of campers and in me as well.

Now, it's time for pictures from the week!

This is registration- actually before the big crowd came in, but you get the general idea :)

Spoke tackle 

 

Sorry it's a little off...self-timer + short photographer + camera up high on a rock = a little off :) That gate says Joy. 

And this one says Camp! 

Down by the lake. Excuse the name tag- we have to wear them every day and I forgot about it. :)

Before fun time

Katie (my stand partner in orchestra) and I 

During swim time this week, it was so cold that only 2 girls came, and they went tubing. So Ashley, Bethany, and I went canoeing! Well, I just went along for the ride. :)

Crazy sailors!

Allison and Ashley at the University

Katie and I again

Karis (another counselor) and I before the final concert

Katie and I waiting to go on stage. We didn't get to watch any of the band, because we weren't until after intermission. :(

The back of my hair that Oma did in a relatively short time! She had a line of girls that wanted her to do their hair. :) She's amazing!

The Navigators (my team) won this week! This is our flag being raised by Luke.

Cheering after raising the flag

On the weekends, we girl counselors have to clean our rooms and the deluxe rooms above our hallway. We had a little too much fun cleaning this past Saturday. :)

Somebody likes vaccuuming! :)

Ok, so we just pick sheets from the closet to put on the beds, which already have comforters on them. By the time we got to this room (the last one we did), there were only dark green sheets or weird-patterned sheets left. So I picked the green ones. 

But this was red! It cracked me up how mis-matched this bed ended up. :/  

:)

Sarah Hatchett and I

And...this is part of my room for the next week of family camp. All of the staff girls had to move back onto one hallway yesterday so that the other hallway can be used for nurseries and so forth during camp. If you think this is a lot of stuff, you should see the rest of the room! It actually looks a little better now that some of us put stuff in drawers. :) But there are ELEVEN girls in this room that has 13 beds...agh! It's going to be fun! :)

At the laundromat! Between 6 girls, we had 8 loads of laundry! It took us about 2 and 1/2 hours to do it all. But it was a fun adventure- this was the first time that all of us had actually gone since camp started. :) 

Ashley, Bethany, and I waiting for our 5 dryers to finish. :)

It was a good week! I'm really enjoying my time here, and am so glad that all of the girls are really sweet! Looking forward to more fun! I wish I could put up videos on here, but never fear-I am taking them! Blogger is too slow to upload them, so you'll have to wait until I get back to see them!

 Have a good week!

 

Training: COMPLETE

Happy Saturday! We have finished our week and a half of training! I have to say, it's been a great week and a half. The Lord has really been working in my life and showing me things that I need to work on. I said one night during testimonies that if I was leaving now, I would have plenty to work on, but I'm very thankful that I have the whole summer still ahead of me to grow even more! So our schedule for training was pretty intense! We had leadership sessions every day (at least 2 a day), a service at night, case studies some days...we also learned about the games the campers will be playing as well as other important topics we needed to cover regarding counselling. I'm tired, but I've really enjoyed it! It's almost been like a week of camp with all the sessions and preaching we got! :) The girls are all so much fun! And...girls + fun = pictures! A lot of pictures :) Get ready, get set, go!!

Checking in at the airport! Which took forever...

The girl counselors minus one (Allison). From L to R: Caris, Ashley, me, Bethany, Kaylee, Charity, and Clara. 

Cute pose...

...CrAzY pose!

Bethany, Ashley, and me

Ashley and Kaylee

Case Studies session

The BLUE TEAM!! with some crazy faces :)

Counselor choir practice. Obviously, the guys weren't too into this picture... :)

Oma adding her shoes to the line. Caris and I counted the pairs of shoes in the hallway and the ones that were still in all the rooms. We reached a grand total of........ 125 pairs of shoes for approximately 30 girls. Are you shocked?!

the gorgeous lake

The counselor girls before taking the swim test. I think 3 or 4 of them passed and the others did well too--good job girls!

Me, Ashley, and Bethany

All the girl counselors on picture day with our lovely :) shirts

trying not to fall!

and...we did it!

Me and Oma (who is from Ireland!)

Heading out to the bog on Thursday morning. It was cold!

All the counselors at Lookout Point. L to R: Allison, Charity, me, Ashley, Jesse, Kaylee, Clara, Caris, Julie, Miss Tina, Mr. Stephen, Tyler, Jeremy, Nathan, Luke, Bethany, Micheal, Dan, and Mark. 

Hiding behind the door for one of the skits :)

Kaylee and Rachel

Hanging out before FUN TIME!

The messiest cabin on surprise cabin inspection day...these guys had way too much fun singing Old McDonald had a Farm... 

and today... Julie, Ashley, Allison, Margaret, and I tried to make our way to Goodwill. But after driving around for over an hour, we only made it to the Walmart right near here. This is Margaret trying to get some advice from a Chicago map. It didn't help much... :/ This was also while Ashley was looking in the woods (from the car window) for a bear that I had spotted! (Really she just can't hear- I actually asked about a mirror! :))

If you're like me, you loved all those pictures. If you're not, sorry... :) It's been great so far! The weather has actually been pretty awesome almost every day. The first few days were kind of cold. It is very windy here though! Not so great for the hair... :) I have to get back to my schedule for the evening, but it I can, I'll upload some VIDEOS tomorrow! ;)