Week 6.... Camp is Over!

with the end of this week brought then end of camp for the summer. im so happy, but sad too. this has been an amazing summer, but an exhausting one, and im glad for a break, and i cant wait to see everyone again. This was an incredibly had week to get through, for all of our staff. first of all, we were all tired, and we all struggled being motivated. this was our sixth time through the camp schedule, and it can get a little monotonous. Monday morning was probably the hardest (imagine that). Britney was my assistant this week, which was kinda fun. It was especially good to have her there monday and tuesday for moral support for each other, we were both very unmotivated and it was good for both of us to have someone else there to help encourage each other.

i mentioned that this was an especially hard week for the staff to get through. This was especially true for brittney and erica. Saturday night, erica had a really bad athsma attack, completely out of the blue, and couldnt really get it under control and had to go home. she had to get all kinds of drugs and steroids and fun stuff like that, which cant be any fun. next was brittany, shes been dealing with some health issues all summer, and is actually having surgery in a couple of weeks. Tuesday afternoon she was feeling so bad, and couldnt take any of her meds to help her, that she had to quit working and take a nap in the van. she didnt work wedensday either, and then her mom came and picked her up on thursday because she was feeling so bad and needed someone there who was able to take care of her better than we were. It was sad to see both of them go, but they needed to. erica was able to come back for worship on friday and is feeling fine now, but brittany came a couple of days ago and picked up all of her things.

I had a pretty good sized roof this week, but nothing to crazy, it was 20 square. i had a pretty small crew, and most of them were very young, but worked suprisingly well. i also had mostly girls, i only had two guys, other than an adult chaperone. i was very fortunate that basically everyone in my crew was a really hard worker. All summer alot of the kho staff had been talking about how much harder of workers their girls were than their guys. that happened to me this week, i think mainly because i had so few guys, but the girls on my crew were especially hard workers. the weather this week did not cooperate with us at all for the beginning of this week. There was a good chance of rain monday tuesday and wednesday. this chance meant that i couldnt leave much of the roof under tar paper. generally, when the weather is cooperating, ill have my crew tear off an entire side, and then tar paper everything that we tore off, even though theres no chance of shingling it all back that day. because of the chance of rain, we could only tear off what we could shingle back in one day, which is a much slower process, and a more frustrating one. this put us a little behind, and by the end of the week we needed a little help from the shingle fairies again, but that happens. This roof was just a standard roof, no valleys or hips or anything. we did have a chimney to work around, but that wasnt very difficult, and dwight happened to be on my site by the time we worked up to it, so he did the chimney for me, which was definitly awesome. i was ok with dwight having to think and not me! our homeowner was a really nice lady, and her son bought us pizza on friday for lunch which was amazing! she also showed us an article in the newspaper about a tornado they had a few months ago, caused alot of damage and really hurt the area. the article was about angel figurines. it was written by a lady who was visiting a grave site of a family member, and noticed that thoughout the entire cemetery, among all the blown down trees and other damage, not a single angel had been harmed. even though they werent weighted down or sturdy at all, no angels were harmed, or even turned over. it was really interesting to hear about.

since brian left, weve had a different camp pastor for the past two weeks, this week our pastors name was and woods. he worked for KHO up until this past year and is now a youth minister at a church in ky and had brought his youth group up for the week. even though weve missed brian, its been kind of nice to hear some different sermons on jonah, rather than the same 4 each week. this week, andy really challenged the kids to change their lives. he called them out on sins that arent generally brought up, be cause the cut so close to home (and heaven forbid that someones toes get stepped on). his messages really seemed to work on the kids, and i think some major decisions were made this week. i certainly hope they last!

its hard to believe that camp is already over, even though its seemed like it would never end. im ready for a relaxing week back at campbellsville to relax and hang out with the staff for a few days before i head on back to boone, but i am oh so ready to see everyone back at home. and its so soon too!!