WhAt a WelcOme?

Today was the arrival of 180 students once again! THis time though,they have had quite the welcome. We staff have the stomach flu! Talk about disaster. ITs a wreck. We have the paranoid, the optimistic, and then the psychos  who are convinced puking is in their near future.  e.g......"i feel sick ....um blahhhhhh ."
HELP! I am all over the board. 1.Disinfect EVERY possible thing. 2 . I am taking charcoal ,therefore i will make it through this! 3. I want to just throw up and get it over with.
Then there is my personal horribleness.......as soon as we are all almost over it, the first 2 people will them start it all over again. We don't talk about that possibility. We just try to talk about anything but sick.....and then some one walks into the room and you immediately ask if they are feeling  sick even in the slightest.
But hey on the bright side, of all times to be sick, how grand to be sick and have a whole party of sickoes?It could be called the puking party. Can you tell I am super tired? I am going to go to bed now.
If you think of it please , please pray for a fellow staff member who is in need of a lot of prayer concerning issues with the family at home. Thank you all!

Summit Pictures!!!

 Garden of the gods.......beautiful rock formations.

 My first "Incline" hike ever!!!!  My hiking buddies.....Jake and Michaela

 Photo shoot!

 roomies

  Staff friend

 Doc Noble.

 Staff choir

session 1 volleyball winners!!

 My small group

This student and I were told we looked like sisters!

                                These 3 staffers did  a singing ballot for the staff auction .

        I love Kara!

 Small group girl!

 on the way up Pikes Peak

 4 hours later... ....6 1/2 miles.........At the top of Pikes Peak!!!!! Elevation 14,110.  

                                          SUCCESS !!!
 

 I made it!

Guess What?

Hello blogger friends! I am sorry for not posting in a while.
Everything is going very well. Group 2 is gone and group 3 arrived on Sunday. We had a very quiet group the first few days. They have now opened up a lot and are quite attentive.
I am loving my small group girls!  Four 16 year olds with lots of questions and ideas. They are so excited to be here, they are doing great and participating in everything!
I am still in the kitchen .......where I will stay until September!!! I am so excited- the camp director came to me last week and asked if I would consider staying on and being the afternoon kitchen supervisor! After a lot of praying and thinking, I told them I would. I will still come home for 4 days in July and then fly back out. FYI I was seriously considering doing a program called AXiS that would have kept me here until the end of November. But I am going to wait and maybe do that next year. I really enjoy the work and atmosphere . The staff community continues to be my family here. I love seeing the change in the students and then the purpose they see in their lives. Well it is back to the kitchen for me!

Pray

Last night was one of our small group nights. Another girl and I are in charge of 5 girls,  we meet as a group 5-7 times and then 1 on 1 with each of them as much as possible. Last night was testimony/sharing night. The girls laid it all out. Everything they had hidden away and never told anyone about, came out last night. So I ask that you would pray, pray, pray. These girls are searching for answers and looking for help right now. It is really amazing to see how much God is working here, but at the same time is it so devastating to realize what they have gone through. So please just be in prayer for the girls as well as Pat ( girls director), Suzanne (my team member) and me as we will be meeting with them. Thank you so much- we NEED your prayers!