love, peace, and patience

So I spent a week of mid-high camp on program staff last week, which was an appreciated break from counseling.  I ran arts and crafts which was not my favorite thing honestly, did dishes, got sick, and hung out.  It was a small camp which is why I wasn't needed to counsel, so things weren't too bad and the fact that I had to sleep off sickness for a day wasn't a huge deal.  I grew closer with my fellow staffers on program and we had many fun random moments that only happen in tiredness/late at night/when exposed to children constantly.  I feel so blessed to live in such an awesome Christian community for this short time.  We are almost exclusively with only each other all the time.  When God created camp I know He gave us each other to make it through, because its the only way.  This past Sunday until today I counseled a group for Primary camp.  I had nine lovely 6-10 year olds.  My six year old was a lesson in patience and a challenge for sure though I know God placed her with me for a reason.  We had 150 campers which made a lot of things really fun and really ridiculous.  I love worship with so many kids, jumping around and being crazy and hearing all the young voices sing praises to God, looking over a sea of little heads.  These kids really do think and they don't yet have the filters that older people do.  Our three evening cabin discussions each revolved around the Holy Spirit, satan, and Jesus respectively.  I got to explain to a girl how to pray, why Jesus was never married, and to the best of my ability the concept of virgin birth without talking about sex.  Gotta love primary,  and I really do.  I was blessed by my fellow staffers.  I had to deal with a camper issue and one of my friends on program stepped in no questions asked.  This also happened when I was trying to get the table cleared during a meal.  One of my dearest camp friends since lifeguard training was my cabin aunt and she's just the best.  Cabin aunts are program staffers who are assigned to each cabin and fill in for the counselors when we have our off times.  She put the girls to bed for two of the nights.  Theres nothing better then leaving to take a shower and coming back to a sleeping cabin, and this morning when I was rushing to get the girls packed out she showed up and started cleaning.  I get by with a little help from my friends.  God is good.  This was the first session of camp I really felt like I knew what I was doing.  I recognize my counseling 'style' so to speak now and I know how camp works.  I'm at girl's staff retreat until Friday (Harry Potter!) and then I'll be helping work (lifeguarding and dishes) for a guest group until Sunday while the guys are at their retreat.  Then its three solid weeks of camp and then this beautiful amazing Godly adventure will end.  Prayer is always appreciated <3