Camp.

Yay!! I'm here...again. I arrived at Monadnock Bible Conference tonight and it always feel so sereal to me. I can't believe this is my 6th year working as a counselor. I am so blessed to be apart of this family and to know the staff and the kids that keep coming back. This camp has become my second home and I fell in love with it 6 years ago. 

How did I find out about this camp that is in the middle of nowhere you may ask? Well, I dated a guy from New Hampshire and he worked the year before me as a teen counselor. We started dating in 2003 and he came on the core staff for the whole summer and I got to be a part of the teen weeks experience for two weeks and FELL IN LOVE! I mean, I fell head over heals in love with this place. I fell in love with the girls I counseled. I fell in love with the staff. I fell in love with the country and the mountain. I fell in love with the culture up here. I fell in love with the Lord all over again by watching him work in the lives of teenagers. I fell in love with the cross. The summer of 04 I came on core staff and worked for the entire summer. That was probably the best summer I have ever had. Steve and I were still dating at that time so we would go home on the weekends to his parents house. Steve and I broke up in the fall of 04 and I decided I would still go back to camp because I loved it so much. I came back in the summer of 05 and then just kept coming back every year. I have seen the girls I first started with my very first week here grow up and graduate from high school and are now sophomore's in college. I have watched their relationships with the Lord blossom over the years. 

I am excited about this year. I think it will definitely be my last year here. Of course, I always say that, but really I don't know where I'm gonna be next year. It just so happened that the families I nanny for are on vacation this week so the timing worked out perfectly. I feel like this is my missions trip. I'm excited to really pour into the lives of the girls I will have for the week. I'm STOKED about sharing the good news of the Gospel with them. I OOBER excited to what the Lord will do in their hearts. Whilst I was flying here (in the plane, not with my arms) I was looking in the back of my bible and I noticed that my little ESV bible that I got at T4G has a little salvation plan in the back and I was reading over the assurance of salvation part and the verse John 6:37 was there so I looked it up to see what it said and here is what it said:

All that the Father gives me will come to me,

and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. 

While I was reading that verse, I had a huge burden for my girls this week. I don't know who I will have. I will probably have a lot of new girls I haven't met before. But I want them to know Christ! I want them to know the Gospel! I want them to know their sin and the standard of God's Holiness. I want them to know they are loved and pursued by a Holy King! 

I'm excited about this week. Be praying for me and that the Lord would grant me wisdom and discernment in Gospel conversation and counseling. Pray the Gospel is clearly presented in the messages and that the decisions the kids make aren't motivated by emotions as they give invitations here. Pray that my girls get along and we are able to open up to each other and have fun! 

I'll be keeping my blog updated! 

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