Young Life Camp

I survived a week at Young Life camp in the mountains with 68 high school students!! AHHHH. Camp went well – right after school last Friday we left in three Dominican style busses and went to the mountains. When we got to camp and had delicious camp food (here camp food is Rice, Beans, and Plantains)! During camp we had several “sessions” these are full of singing, silly games, and then a speaker. From our sessions we would break out into small groups. I lead a group of junior girls. They were fun and it was nice to get a chance to connect with them because before camp I’d never met any of them! We were able to bond through the weekend and be wild and crazy.


The first night at camp we wore all black and we were covered with the gel from glow sticks (side note to all moms and nurses, I KNOW this is not safe, but it looks cool) then we had to complete an obstacle course in the dark. The obstacles included jumping into this muck/quick sand and climbing out, swim a floatable animal across a pond, and other crazy things. While all this happened we were being attacked by water guns. It was a long night – plus when you put tons of girls in a room they don’t sleep anyway. On Saturday we had water balloon fights, shaving cream wars, flour bomb fight, and a time to make forts for your leaders out of cardboard. We also got to climb what they call their “climbing wall”, which is really the generator tower that they put pegs into!

It was a messy and sleepless weekend, but it was worth it. It’s great to see the kids have an opportunity to hear the gospel for the first time or for others to take another step and grow in their faith. I’m glad I could be a part of this. It made me miss Camp Adventure tons – the director here is nowhere near as dynamic as the one who leads Adventure (props to you dad!) and the experience is completely different, but I’m glad to have had it. I came home Sunday evening exhausted and thrilled to know I didn’t have power again!! Yahoo…OK – I didn’t take it that joyfully – but I’m made it work until I it was restored Wednesday.

I’m about ready to start my count down until my parents come to visit! It’s coming up and I cannot wait…yahoo! Love you all.