Here is a quick video I took with my phone showing my first night in the cabin :) Luckily the guys came and saved the day and killed them all! Since then, there has only been a few more spiders, one or two slugs, and a few snakes (just kidding, no snakes :)
Things have been going great! Counselors arrived yesterday and we are busy doing Counselor Training this week. We have a surprise night tonight planned for them to get to know Santa Cruz. All of us Program Staff will get to dress up and hide ourselves around downtown Santa Cruz. It actually is a nice relaxing few hours as we wait for them to follow the clues and find us.
For those of you that don't know, my partner for the summer, the Men's Staff Counselor, is Graden. His camp name is Space Cowboy, so I will probably be referencing him a lot. We are a team this summer and I am already so thankful in how the Lord has been working in our dynamics as the Staff Counselors.
This week we will be training the counselors in ALL they need to know and be prepared for for the summer. We have a staff of 9 guy counselors and 13 girl counselors. We woke up at 5:30am and went to the tide pools. I was challenged to touch an anemone (an amenonenome..hehe) so I did!! Ahh! It was all sticky and made my finger feel numb. We saw starfish and the end of the sunrise. Then we went up to Pondy (the highschool camp) and had a morning of reflection, alone time, worship, and a hike up to the cross at the hill. It was such a neat time as a staff. We ended the time all putting a hand on the cross where we went into a time of thanksgiving, praise, prayer, and singing to our Father. What a neat time bonding as staff. I gave my testimony at lunch and it was neat to be able to share with the staff some of what the last year has been like and where I am at now.
The Lord has been good and is so at work in this place. Thank you for all your prayers! I will post pictures soon!
Cool Story: One morning I woke up to my alarm. I set it to wake up to "sunrise" setting, which is simply the birds chirping. I went to go shut off my alarm, and it was not my alarm!! The sun was rising outside and the birds had been awakened! It was the coolest thing because it was way before my alarm was actually going to go off. Definitely made my day and was a way the Lord was showing Himself to me :)
Prayer request: 3 Counselors are arriving late on Thursday, so they will miss most of the Counselor Training week. This will mean we will have to figure out time to train them quickly when they get here. I am a little unsure how this is going to go.
3 late ones! Awk, hard to imagine, but at least it's not just one. I am sure they will feel a little behind for a few weeks, but three of them can bond together. Too bad they aren't on ro the first week! Challenges are not new to you! Part of their story and yours!
ReplyDeleteYou and spiders! That was traumatic for you. Hope the spider community gets the word out to leave your room alone! Hope you get your books today. The beach and Pondy time sounded awesome and memorable. Hope training is going well as I sit here and type. I am praying you will feel the H.S. speak through you today.