People, Music and Praising God

I know that I didn't post that long ago, but before I get busy again with getting camp ready and the volunteers get here and then the campers get here I thought I would post just a little bit about the past days since my last post. An update to me at the Doctors: I did another test today and we are waiting to get those results back from the doctors, but I have been feeling alright most of the time. Last time I blogged was in my free time the day that camp was starting.

So the second week of His Kids started Wednesday evening. It was so great to see some of the returning campers and to meet the new campers. We had different Bible story that we would go over in Chapel and then have a Bible Study in our color groups within the next couple hours following Chapel. There were also crafts during that time and different activities consisting of: T-ball, Archery, Kickball and outside manipulatives. We also have waterfront time where the campers can choose to swim, boat, play a sport, just sit there or play a board game, card game or color a picture. The first day I canoed with a camper and her buddy and that was pretty tiring, but I enjoyed it. The next day I just hung out under the shelter and played a couple board games with some campers. During free time I played more board games with a few different campers and checkers a couple times with a camper. We had a closing on Saturday and all of the campers left to go home.

I had a great weekend with my family here at camp. I ate at a Mexican restaurant with a few of them and the food was delicious and being with them was really fun. Last night was the best ending to a week that I could ask for. There was 9 of us hanging out at camp and so we went and had a campfire. We had some s'mores and a great time bonding. When it was getting pretty dark we had 5 different instruments out there and we had someone starting a tune and the rest would join in. Every single one sounded amazing. Then we started playing some camp songs and some other songs. Praising God with some awesome music at the campfire with some amazing people was totally a great way to end the weekend.

Back Again

Well it is summer again and I am actually back at camp for the summer! I have been really busy and so this is why I am just now starting posting for the summer. We started back here 2 weeks ago and things have just been really crazy. I was here for the first 5 days of training and we did a lot of bonding which was really fun. We didn't have a lot of jobs like we did last year to get the camp ready before campers so we got to hang out and get to know each other. Each day would be at least one new activity that we would be doing that would help us get to know each other. We also started going through a process to help us remember things that were important in our life that helped us become who we are. It is based on a book and at first I was really unsure of how it would go, but as we went through the beginning I started to become really interested in it. We didn't get that far into it, but will continue doing more.

I went home for the first weekend so I could travel to Chicago to see my niece get baptized. That made me really happy to be able to attend since I am a sponsor for her. She was born in April and I had only seen her for a week in the evenings when she was 3 weeks old. When we got back from Chicago I had to stay at home for a few days because I was going to the doctor to try and figure out what is going on with my body. We are still waiting for some answers, but I got back to camp on Friday and I have been here since.

So since I missed out on like a week of being here I missed out on most of the first His Kids Camp. I made it back for about a day of it though. It was nice to meet the new campers and see the returning campers again. We worked on cleaning some of camp on Saturday instead of having our day off because we had to get ready for Camp Luther Sunday. On Saturday night and Sunday morning we got everything ready for Camp Luther Sunday.

Camp Luther Sunday was huge. There were a lot of people that came and it was awesome. I was at the gate greeting people with Ellie and I got a sunburn from our time out there. We then had a re-dedication for the Chapel and a blessing/dedication of the staff for the summer. We then had a very long, but good quilt auction with many of quilts being bought. Monday was our day off and we had a fun day just hanging out and we went to a Tavern in Columbus for supper. Their burgers and fries were really good. We then ended the night with watching a movie as a staff. On Tuesday we worked on the water slide and got it up and working and then we did some cleaning before we started training. The campers will come here in a little over an hour and I will begin my first week of His Kids Camp this summer.

Me and Ellie