Monday is here - The last week has begun

Hello friends and family!

I can't believe it, but the last week has begun. Saturday afternoon I said goodbye to my campers, packed up my stuff, turned in my forms and moved out of Bayberry for the last time. After that it was time to get dressed up and I joined the other g i r l s who were getting ready for our SST wrap-up banquet. The banquet was wonderful and full of great things, challenges, encouragement, sadness and tears. We ate, had our last hymn sing, shared what we had meant to eachother, watched the wrap up video, had our last "prep for ministry" (ministry outside of camp....) and our last prayer circle. We didn't get back to camp until almost midnight.

Sunday we rolled out of bed for church in the Chapel with Carney Free who had a service and picnic here.

Yesterday afternoon a group of us went out on a curvy county highway into the middle of nowhere, turned right down a dirt road and drove for a few miles, parked and walked for 25 minutes and there it was! LaSalle Falls and it was gorgeous. We stayed until 8 hiking around (and climbing out to the middle of the river if you're Courtney.... :) and then went to Pizza Hut and Walmart and drove back by midnight :)

This morning custodial began. It'll be an interesting week since I have to train a new crew everyday..... As usual, custodial's already thrown more intresting projects and things at me. I got attacked by the garbage today and got a nice y cut on my leg, I discovered the insane number of vaccum cleaners camp has when I had to change all the bags this morning, I discovered how heavy a garbage bag full of dirty vacumm bags is.... lol and I'm on my way in 60 seconds to be trained on driving the red mule (another camp vehicle) since the five wheeler is down.

All in all these last few days have been great. I'm loving and appreciating everyone more than ever and I'm enjoying working alongside all the SSTers and having fun with them instead of a bunch of random volunteer staff I don't know.

Prayer Requests:
-That things would go fairly smoothly
-That I wouldn't be intimidated by or annoyed with any of my crews (most of them are good friends of mine but not all of them)
-That I would get to spend some quality time with God
-That at home details would get arranged quickly
- That goodbyes would go okay and that God would give us all strength to endure them and make the transition back to the "real world".
-PRAISE: That we serve an amazing God who has given me the great privledge of serving here this summer!