children.

IT IS KIDS CAMP TIME! yay! in about 30 minutes we'll have kids arriving! over 1000 of them! this will be the first kids camp ever for me and the first one for the team this summer. we are all really excited and just ready for it to start. we have 51 churches to register today. yayayayayaya. it will be a super long day for us all, but we are all really looking forward to starting! yay. some of our team is sick and that isn't very fun, but most of them are feeling much better than they were before. my job today is to go through childrens minister packets with the ministers as they arrive and then later i will set up the room with coffee and enough chairs for everyone...then, i will go and work with resources. yippee. i'm going to be helping out more with resources nowadays and i'm really excited for that. i enjoy doing that a lot. me and kylee (the resource coorindator) will now be helping out one another more. yay. two is always better than one! well, i'm going to go and make sure everything looks nice and put together. yay. i've said yay alot, but at completely necessary times. oh yeah. we are going to texas on thursday! we will load out and head on over there. we'll stop overnight in louisanna then continue our journey on friday. i believe it will be july 4th. i know texas has big things in store for us all. well God has been growing me a whole lot and i'm now starting to see myself growing and changing. i like it. well, adios amigos. thanks for reading.

this is mary beth. she was my first roomie here with student life. she was my roomsie for the first 5 camps. we are now separated, but she still sits next to me all day so i guess we can just live with that. she is the family group coordinator. she goes to union and i also love her.

just some fun times in the office. the only boy is jordan. he is the mission site director. he and his team travel between some of the other teams...they will be leaving us tomorrow and we won't see them the rest of the summer :(...the girl with the headband (not me) is haley. she is awesome. she is the housing coordinator. she goes to UF and just got accepted into nursing school. the other girl is kylee. she is amazing. she is the resource coordinator. currently, she has bronchitis. sad story. :( pray for her health (also that nobody else would get sick!) just wanted you to meet some peeps. more to come.

moving.

okay. so it has been super crazy around here these past few days! we are now at stetson university in florida! yay! we will be loading out tomorrow morning and heading to shocco springs for the start of kids camp...yay. we have a lot to do in prep for it. last saturday we went to islands of adventure for our one day off! yay! it was so nice to be able to just sit back and relax a little. um, we started the week off well. reg day went fairly smooth...last night was pretty intense though. we were in the service and a girl was dehydrated and passed out and was vomiting. the ambulance/fire truck came and took care of the situation. in the mean time we were smelling something funny inside. the firemen came in and smelled it and said we needed to evacuate 1200 students out of the building. luckily, the service was about finished, but in the middle of the alter call. so we ended up getting 1200 students out of the building in 4 minutes...yay. then a girl had a seizure. good times. all in all, God got the glory. :) i shared my testimony at a church group last night and it was awesome. i'm so glad that i was able to do it! well, i must go and return to my job. i'll be calling some youth ministers soon. :)

chaos.

so, i haven't blogged in some time because i have been in a vortex of busy-ness. camps camps camps. tomorrow marks the 15th straight day of camp. ah. no breaks. day after day. it has been wonderful, but it is been exhausting. i have been really broken lately about a lot of things and it hasn't been the easiest thing i have ever done to stay positive or motivated. i'm really trying to just grow closer to Him and just let Him show me why i am here this summer doing this. i do love it, but it is really a lot! tomorrow, however, we are loading out! yay! we are heading to stetson university in Florida! we are driving there from alabama tomorrow! saturday we are going to islands of adventure! yay! a break! monday, we are starting camp 6...i cannot believe it! well i have got to go, but i wanted to just catch everyone up! later.

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so, i feel totally ahead of the game today. i have stuffed all my packets for next camp, called all the large churches, completed my spreadsheets, and set up the youth minister room. ah. relief. so now i am just sitting here contemplating my afternoon. i got like 5.5 hours of sleep last night so i think i will nap if at all possible. however, i do think i should go on a run. this camp food has gotten me feeling large. so...later on this week we are playing bazooka ball. yippee. for those of you who don't know, bazooka ball is paintball without paintballs and with nerf balls. i'm pumped. oh, this morning something eventful occurred. all the power shut off this morning. blessing is, it was back on before we needed to use the worship center. yay. um, yeah. i'm going to go and try to be useful or productive. one of the two, but not both. later.

reg 3 :)

so...yesterday campers left and today they came...after all the campers left yesterday we got some FREE TIME~ our last night off until Stetson...we played paintball as a team. some people didn't play, but i chose to. i was really super duper scared...ha i still am. i was hit twice, but nothing too severe. some people got so many blood bruises and stuff like that. our team lost, but it was still very fun. after, we went to eat at a mexican restaurant which was delicious. then, we had a name tag party and made 1050 nametags. we went back to Shirey (where we live) and had a nerf gun war. which was intense. i love it here. i cannot wait for this camp..i know it is going to amazing. i got a package from my family today, which made me SUPER happy. :) yay for homemade cookies. well, i must go...i hope to write more later... possibly put up a schedule of my day in case you wonder what in the world i must be doing... laterrr

reg day 2

so, today is registration day two. insanity. i cannot believe that we've completed our first week of camp already. in 16 days we'll be headed off to florida :) this week we have middle schoolers and i'm so excited. 18 churches, too. yesterday after week 1's campers left we were able to get ready for week 2....we also took a longg napp! yes! it was amazing. we went to walmart and then were able to eat a yummy meal. student staffers came early and cooked us jambalaya! yes! and then we watched slumdog millionaire. i fell asleep, but it was really good up until then. sleep was amazing!!!! i really cannot wait for campers to come in just a few hours! we have brunch at 10:30 then campers come at 11:45....well i'll update again later. :)