Best.Camp. Ever. Part 3

Well I've clearly failed at this "weekly" update thing! But so many exciting things are happening at camp and I'm in a CANT STOP, WONT STOP mode right now.

A few glory stories and a few pictures...COMING AT YOU!

Week 1 of camp there was a little girl named Lily that stole my heart on the very first night. I was eating dinner with her, her sister and some friends. She sat right next to me (practically in my lap) and started eating food off my plate. I was a little taken back at first, but she was going into 6th grade and super cute so I figured I would share. She started telling me joke, and the five of us continued to eat every meal together for the rest of the week. The really glory comes on Thursday of that week during high ropes. I was blessed to be up in the air with the girls and Lily was especially nervous. There were a lot of tears...A LOT! But she climbed up the cargo net and over to the first element and then she froze. So I walked towards her and helped her the entire way till the tight rope walk portion of high ropes course. There she was crying so much she couldn't even see. It was heart breaking. I knew she was scared, but I knew she could do it. She wanted to get down, so we had to rescue retrieve her down. The night at dinner we talked a bit about why she was so scared, and all she kept saying was "you saved my life". It was so cute, and I knew all I had done was held her hand when she was scared, and let her eat off my plate. But even deeper than that Lily taught me how to love.

Week 2 was a bit of a hectic week. I brought one teen to the hospital because he dislocated his knee. Through the chaos I was able to relay the message to the summer missionaries to gather all the teens and pray a rosary. As we were traveling the 30 minutes to the hospital (his mother being very happy I'm a New York driver) his knee suddenly popped back into place. Miraculously when we got to the hospital it was all fixed, and he just has to wear a brace for a week. POWER OF PRAYER!

We are half way through Week 3 and Jesus is rocking it. We had a 7th grader tell the entire room he was going to be a priest, and an 8th grade girl asked to be baptized and welcomed into the Catholic Church as her only Christmas present this year. My favorite quote of the week so far as been from Father Michael, this is in reference to the Sacrament of Reconciliation he said "When a priest is wearing purple you know it's butt kicking time. Jesus is just going to come in and KICK that sin in the face"

GOD IS SO ALIVE!
Our church is ALIVE
And the middle schoolers of our faith are ALIVE!

Just a few hours before the first campers arrive putting the final touches to our set.

That "tree" is made out of garbage cans, and cardboard boxes..WE WORK WITH WHAT WE HAVE! 

Ropes Crew! 

This is Konan, he's our pet bear. Don't worry though, black bears don't eat meat! 

HAPPY CAMP!