Day 31 June 21st Monday

I slept in on Monday and it was wonderful. I waoke up naturally at 7:30, no alarm, no nothing. When I woke up me andHanley decided to play some video games, then we went and got breakfast. After breakfast I went and met with Ben N (Rez Director). It made me miss Mergens but we had a great talk. It was supposed to be about how he ended up at ELC but it turned into him asking me a lot of questions and me talking a lot.

We never even got to his story of being called to ELC. But we are going to met again so he can tell me it. It was really nice to met with him and just develop our relationship some more. After that Hanley and I went down to met Jack for lunch. We had a good time at lunch and then went back to the Mcqueeney's house. We played video games for pretty much the entire afternoon and then we ran some errands and I worked on some stuff,. THne shaunda made us an amazing steak, potatos, and corn on the cob dinner. After that we had to fly up the mountain to be on time,. I also beat Jack three times at PIG. Kelsey's parents are amazing. I can't even explain how great they are, I'm getting in pretty good with Jack, I still am waiting for Hot tub time though. At one point when Hanley and I were in the car I looked over and said "we could do this for the next forty plus years" and he goes "you don't know how f&^^ing good that sounds" LOL it was really funny.

Day 30 June 20th Sunday

Sunday morning was nice, I like having a late breakfast. Kyle, Chris, and I woke up early and went to take a shower (My first in six days). Which would've been amazing but I was sun burnt and I was taking a hot shower to open the pores. Then the three of us went to breakfast and hung out for the morning. It was really good to just hang out with those two guys all morning. We sat out on the balcony and had a blast. We talked about Kyle and my "situations". We might just have to make that a Sunday tradition.

That was followed by chapel and a long time navigator spoke about being called and following. I have started having thoughts about post college and what that will look like. I feel like it is very wide open and I am prepared to follow. I think I will give some serious thought to Edge Corp and BFA (Missionary Kid Boarding school).

Sunday continued with luggage runs, dinnerm and then tent bonding after dinner was amazing we had prepared for two weeks for this tent bonding. We had a highland games competition. We had kilts and sashs. We got all the guys together and changed and out on war paint.

Then we walked out to the area where we were going to play our games. It was a blast and the guys loved it. Afterwards it was my night off so I went with Hanley to the A-frame. I really enjoye4d sleeping in the A-frame because I just kicked it that night with the pc's and we told stories. I actually shared the story about everything that happened with Kira last summer, it was funny to see some of their reactions as well as being able to relate. I really enjoyed it I'm sure I will do it again.

Day 29 Saturday June 29th

DSaturday morning we had a nice late breakfast, after breakfast the campers left for Extended time alone with God (3 hours). I spent most of it cledaning and helping with tent bonding prep. But like the last half hour I was on the computer chillin and it was fantastic.

After ETWAG we hda a picnic lunch to kick off beach day. Beach day was incredible we played lots of volleyball and blob wars. Also it was sunny and hot.I had a great time interacting wiht the kids. I also got burned on my back realy bad. for dinner we made Hobo dinners and hung out by the fire. I had to go back early to clean up the kitchen so me and Collin went and ended up having a great conversation about him and Jenn and I talked about things with Kelsey. It was the first time we really hung out 1 on 1 overall a great day!

Day 28 Friday June 18th

Friday started with luggage runs then I helped with breakfast. On Friday I found out one of our counselors (Ben) Got denied insurance so he can't drive camp vehicles. So I got moved to working with a crew to deep clean the bathrooms on Fridays and that took till lunch.

After lunch we had debrief which went very well, there were very few things we had on the bad list. After debrief I played soccer with Alex (Bible study guy) for at least and hour. Excursions got back. Back to seeing Kelsey! Also I had to help Derek for like an hour to set up for our tent bonding (Highland games) which I did not want to do but he needed it and none of the other counselors stepped up. After dinner I was talking with Kelsey and she looked over and was like is that your whole bible study waiting for you? I had to be honest so I told he it was and that was the end of our conversation lol. (Thanks bible study guys!)

So for bible study me and my guys went to castle rock and climbed up on it for bible study. They all shared their testimonies which as good for our group. for bible study we went over Hebrews 12:1-13 we had a good bible study and then hiked back and went to bed.

Day 27 Thursday June 17th

On Thursday I had laundry duty. So after Devotions the two store crew girls and I filled the van with everyone's laundry and headeed down the mountain and stopped for some coffee on the way to the laundry mat.

Laundry turned out to be fun but a pretty intense experience. Bible study Thursday night was really good. We went through phil 2:1-18 and it lead to some very good discusion. I specifically remember Chris brought up struggling to have a fear of God V12 and that really resinated with me. We talked about how we are missrepresenting God if we do not focus on all of his characteristics but just focus on a few (Love/Grace) I feel like a lot of this view comes from so many "Christians" being an unch deep and getting converted but not discipled. Also the church might be to evangilistic in the sense of trying to be appealing to the none believer. I don't know if that is it or if we are just drwan to certain characteristics of God.

Anyways it was just a great bible study and challenged me to be aware of all Gods characteristics and trying to have an understanding of his whole character.

Day 26 June 16th

Wednesday was good I lead PM service as usual so during my free time in the Morning I played risk with some of the P.M. guys. We had a blast but we were never able to finish.

Wednesday night we had a prayer night for worship. it was a really good experience and sweet to share in that with the kids. I got to pray for all my bible study guys individually. lately it has been hard to wake up I feel like my discipline in getting up is slipping. I'm starting to snooze a lot.

Day 25 June 15th

Well I am a few days late in journaling about Tuesday but I had a one-on-one w/Nate which did not go very well. I wouldn't get him to go in depth about anything. I was a little disappointed afterwards but I just realized we might just have to go do some adventure type things for our one on ones. I lead the am crew on Tuesday as usual. Overall I think it went smoothly.

I also Had a chance on Tuesday to talk with Jenn for a while before our meeting. It was really good to have an actual conversation with her, she is super cool and I fell like we could be getting along a lot better but I was intentional early on not to really spend time with her along because collin has liked her for a while and I didn't want to start any drama or anything but I could see her becoming one of my really good friends. she is just very down to earth and real about things.