God is so powerful

Teen week is always a rough but rewarding week. I have an awesome group of girls and i'm so thankful for them and how well behaved they are and how much they want to grow closer to God. Please pray for the staff. We need to continue to be the example and not the exception. This should include the junior staff that is here surving, even if they are the same age as many of these teens. There are some prayers that are meeting boys and girls and starting to "like" them. Please pray that although this can happen, that they will be able to focus on why they are here. There are teens that i can see they are falling away from God and it really breaks my heart. I'm praying that God would hold them close and not let them fall to rock bottom, even though this is probably what many of them need.

Please pray for the girls in my cabin. Many come from hard homes and have had rough experiences. Pray God would give them the courage and peace they need. I'm thankful that Kelsey, a girl in my cabin, came to me last night and wanted to dedicate her life to Christ. She wants to be involved in working with teens and children and I'm so excited to see that.

Please pray for the family of a man who died yesturday. He worked with my boyfriend WIll and Will's dad at a gas line site in Bangor. I'm so thankful that Will is safe and that nothing happened to him. I keep praying that he will stay safe. Here is the article for what happened. There isn't much in it because they didn't release the guys name, but Will said he knew him and was becoming good friends with him\

http://bangordailynews.com/2011/07/27/news/bangor/odlin-road-traffic-being-rerouted-for-fatal-accident/

Teen Week

Teen week has started. I am the senior counselor in the Pennacook cabin which is the oldest girls cabin. There are five girls, one 16 year old, three 17 year olds, and one 19 year old. I have no junior counselor so pray that they are a cooperative group. Thus far, they have been an awesome, helpful group.

I'm very excited to see what God has in store for me this week, and there will probably have multiple updates.

It's happy time, all the time

Week 3 has begun. I am "Princess Happy Times" which is a nickname for the recreational leader. I create the game and activities for gym/recreation and surprise pow-wow which is a camp-wide game. Last night we played Mission Impossible. The score was very close, and overall I think everyone had fun.

As I write this, I am planning out all the games for the rest of the week. I try to pick a lot of favorite games that i know campers and counselors would like, because most times, there are games that counselors wouldn't play and campers follow the counselors example.

Tonight, I may be leaving camp after pow-wow to go home for the night and tomorrow morning i will be possibly getting my filling redone because it came out. I am having trouble finding a ride back up to camp, so please pray that i can find a ride, otherwise I will have to cancel. Tomorrow I will be Natausha, meaning I will be checking up on all the campers at night and making sure everyone is going to bed well and not giving this counselors a hard time.

Overall, I'm excited for the challenge and free time I have this week. I'm excited to see what God will be using me for this week as well.

What a fast week

Today is the last day of week 2. It's crazy how fast the summer is going by. I wish summer would last a lot longer then winter does. My cabin has been awesome! They all had previously accepted christ as their savior so they were really working on growing in their christian walk.

My asthma has been good this week. I have been using my new inhaler and I have stayed clear of things I KNOW would cause an asthma attack. Pray these last couple weeks would be the same. I do however, have a hole in my tooth. Back when I was in high school I drank a lot of flavored water which created a soft spot and they filled it in. Two years ago the filling came out and they replaced it and tuesday of this week it came out again. I have an appointment for this upcoming tuesday where they will look at it and hopefully refill it the same day. Pray the appointment goes quickly, it would hurt too much and i can recover quickly.

Beginning of week 2

Week one officially ended Friday night. It was a little rough at the end. Thursday night we had at least 5 campers go home because of head lice. Lice was a big problem last week and we are hoping and praying that is finally under control. Thus far we have no had anyone problems, which i am very thankful for. It made a lot of work for us college bound students as we had to take pretty much all of our stuff home to wash and clean. Overall though, week 1 ended well. My cabin was able to go to Tubby's which is an ice cream place about 10 minutes down the road. They also won honor cabin meaning our cabin had the most points on the girls side.

Last wednesday night I had to go to the ER because of an asthma attack. Please pray for my health and safety this week. I have had a problem with my asthma twice in the past two weeks. Although i'm 21, my parents told me that if i continue to have problems, they want me to come home where they know i won't have the same problems.

Week 2 has started as of last night. i am in the Cherokee cabin and i have two junior counselors, Rachel Swedberg and Rebakah Martin. Please pray I could be a good example to these two girls and that we could all work together well as a team. I have five girls in my cabin: Sophia, Holly, Hannah, Judy and Ashley.