so this was a great weekend! days and nights off are glorious! friday night me, michelle and david (all JAM counselors) and Marissa, she is a former counselor & lives here in Brenham, went to Casa Ole and then headed out for a spontaneous roadtrip to H-town. we went into downtown and then wandered around a Barnes & Noble sipping our Starbucks...nothing fancy-but tons of fun and relaxing! then Saturday was spend bumming around the house until about lunch then michelle and i headed to College Station to lounge by my pool! later we met up with David and then Vern came along too..McAllister's was delightful and Shakes was sure yummy. All the other counselors at JAM were in Dallas for YEC, so me, Michell and David got some quality bonding time in! today was a great day too-i started helping lead worship this sunday...singing that is, which was quite interesting seeing as my voice is just about gone from the yelling & cheers i do during the week. after church i bummed around the house for a bit and then met Marissa at the pool-it ended up being a party as i saw a lot of JAM kids and then some other counselors came up.
the most kids i had this week was 12 so that was a break...our stomp was amazing, yet we didnt win, which that was kinda dissapointing for the girls cause they worked really hard on it-i mean the competition is rigged...we will win:-) on the flip side, i've been able to have some really good conversations with my girls and getting to know them and their families is so encouraging and challenging. theres this one family that i think the Lord is opening a door with..they have 3 kids and one of them is in my group and i pick them up in the mornings..super sweet kids, totally rough home life, but theyve been coming to church every week so thats really encouraging! also another praise was that i was able to share the gospel with my girls on Friday while we were eatting lunch at our field trip..none of them made any committments or anything, but they were full of questions. so that was really exciting
not so great news of the week but definitely a praise:
friday the youth group went to Dallas for the Youth Evangelisim Conference, meaning there was a total of 3 JAM counselors to end JAM on Friday, thus my skills as a bus drvier were used...so Thursday chris takes me out in the charter bus so i can practice for taking the kids home on Friday afternoon since he wasnt going to be there..it was smooth sailing. i didnt hit any crubs, no problems-i have great confidence for the next day cause all week i had been really nervous..cause it s a HUGE bus! so Friday comes and drop off in the first neighborhood-no problems..head to the second: major problem..there is a car parked on the corner of a street, another truck parked paralle to it on the other curb and a third truck parked probably a cars length behind it...there is no physical way to manuver the bus without hitting one of the cars parked on the street...BUt somehow..meaning no way but DIVINE INTERVENTION i am able to leave the scene with a small scratch on the car, no damage to the bus whatsoever..i'm telling you, it was all Jesus-because i know i'm not that great of a bus driver (just read previous posts)..the owners of the car werent upset and nither was marcus and all the kids were in one piece..quite an eventful afternoon though with that incident and only having one counselor to bounce the bus (when usually there are two)
so i'll admit, going into college station for fun is quite funny to me! but the past two times i've been, its been weird, cause the majority of my friends dont live there anymore and i just end up chilling with the family cause since i really dont keep in constant contact with my friends that do live in college station, i end up not seeing anyone-cause i never know what they are up to..i know its probably a lame excuse cause i could easily call any of them up.
its crazy that the summer is almost halfway over. if any of you guys would like to come visit me, feel free. i'd love for yall to see what my life looks like here-JAM is where its at. The Lord is alive and at work in a mighty way. I love that the simplest things can totally change your peception, this summer i feel as though i'm able to clearly minister through Jesus's eyes. While a lot of the time i'm constantly praying for focus and sensitivity, i am planting the seeds for the harvest and just the knowledge of that sets my spirit on fire. I am constantly being reminded of Isaiah and his willingness and astuteness..knowing he was unclean and confessing that to the Lord, being made pure and going to do the Lord's work-he was gentle and humble, something i'm usually not,yet i know that i'm being refined.
its about time for bed.
please call me or send me mal or an email if youd like to hear more or schedule a time to visit! i love and miss you guys!
grace & peace,
lish
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