God's Work

It's pretty sweet to be able to see God start working in me. I didnt really notice it till a couple nights ago. Wed during chapel, it was Jordan's turn to tell his testimony. I've been waiting for a leader to finally tell their's. Jordan was the first one. The way he told it, and what he said in it really opened my eyes to what God's been trying to do in me this year. It brought tears to my eyes throughout that day whenever I would think of it. It was really good to hear it.

This past week we hit up the caves, and had some good times with homeless people. It was a really good oppertunity to be able to go down the streets of downtown victoria and hand out food, clothing, gloves, and sleeping bags. Some of the people we talked to were extremely greatfull for what we were giving them. It put a smile on my face to see that. And the next day, my group hit the caves. After going un and seeing the millions of spiders on the roof of the cave, I decided that this was out of my comfort zone. So I kept on walking. We went up a waterfall, down really steeply slanted slippery hills, through a birth canal (I swear I got stuck like 60 times) and then finally out of the cave. It was scary. After that we hit the nanaimo pool and swam and relaxed for a few hours. It was so nice.

On the weekend, Camp had their Jr Hi retreat. I've been waiting for this for a while. I was really blessed to get to counsel again, I was counseling with one of my Kaleo friends, Jesse, and we had a blast. There was a girl that I met in the summertime and spent the whole week with. Her name is Kaelin, and she is 17 with a mental disability. I had requested to have her in my cabin for this retreat, and I got her. She is this little star that is really hard to understand but is amazing to watch. She can read, she can write, she can sing, she memorizes things really well. She's at the point where I had to follow her almost everywhere, and make sure she new what she was doing, as well as where everything she might need was. But she was really good. I ran around with her, tucked her into bed, and just watched her go about her day in her own little world. People like that bring me so much joy by just being who they were born as, and by how excited they get over the smallest things like qtown, and her qwanoes shirt. I plan on keeping in touch with her and watching her go through life. She truly is a gem. And I am so glad that I had the oppertunity to work with her. Below this is our cabin picture for the weekend. Hope you all have a really good week!