OH MY GOSH IT'S FREAKING AWESOME HERE!
This past week has been planning week for the teen and children staff. This basically means that we've been having meetings once a day and hanging out with out staff, getting to know each other and preparing for the coming summer. In no way has it been stressful or busy. In fact, I actually started desiring a shcedule and things to do because we were relaxing so much!
We lived in a cute little dollhouse-looking this past week since our teen staff dorm, Lebanon Lodge, wasn't ready. It was super cute, but very cramped. Five girls shared a section of the house with one bathroom in which the bathroom connected the two rooms and one of the rooms to the rest of the house. This was slightly unfortunate when someone was in the bathroom, blocking someone from the rest of the house. Kendra, Sarah, and I shared the room that coule be easily blocked and we were quite frequently seen climbing out of our room to walk around the house to actually get into the house again. It did have an awesome porch though. I am definitely going to miss star gazing on that porch. (: And the stars here are super awesome! Oh my goodness gracious, there are so many! I'm super excited to make star-gazing a frequent activity in my life (:
On Wednesday, the UC kids plus Melissa and Austin (our teen staff leaders - they're basically fantastic) all went to Grand Haven, Michigan to get some food, watch the sunset, and see the musical fountains. It was beautiful!
The rest of the week has consisted of sand volleyball, playing on the beach, dance parties, telling testimonies, thrifting, and other generally crazy and random things. It has been such an awesome week! I can already tell that God is going to show up in some magical ways this summer!
We get our first batch of teens tomorrow evening, and, surprisingly, I am not nervous. I have such a wonderful team supporting me and loving on me that I know love will be surrounding me no matter what. I hope to see God work in some amazingly huge ways and I definitely think I will. For now though, He has blessed me with some amazing friends, some old and some new. We're going to be a family for the coming summer and I am SO pumped to see what He decided to do with us. He could do anything!
"I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live." -John 14:18-19
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