WoW!

God is incredible. Let me just put that out there to start this post.

Camp has been amazing so far. 

Hard? Yes. 

Frustrating? Sometimes. 

Worth it? Beyond anything else. 

Staff training was really good, but Satan was still there trying to tell me that I didn't have a place on the staff, that I wouldn't see incredible things happen that summer, etc. Then, Camp One: two fourteen year old girls walked into my cabin and had this almost disgusted look on their faces. They started setting their stuff up and were telling me, "We normally stay in five star hotels. Our parents sent us here because we need an attitude adjustment. We are completely spoiled and we know it." Later they told me that they were determined to be the campers that didn't listen to the counselors and didn't have any fun at camp. My thoughts were "God, why the heck did you put these girls in my cabin? Seriously? How can I relate to girls who want to wake up two hours before breakfast in order to get ready?" (Which, of course, I didn't let them do). 

As the week went by, though, God worked on their hearts. Just hearing about their school and cliques and the different stuff they had gotten themselves into in order to fit in and have friends made my heart break; one night, I went in the shower house and cried. I never struggled with having to drink in order to have friends or having to be hazed for cheerleader initiation. Their lives sounded like something out of a movie or one of those MTV reality shows. 

The change in them was visible - all of the other counselors noticed it. Both of the girls told me what they wanted to change in their lives as they went home. It is such an incredible feeling for someone to say that you changed her life. Wow. I know that it was all God, but it feels awesome to be used by God and know that He has you where He wants you.  

I got a facebook message from one of the girls the day after she got home, and she told me that the very night she had gotten home her old friends called and wanted to go party with her because they missed her. She told them that she didn't do that anymore, and they stopped talking to her then. I was SO EXCITED that she was able to tell them that! And she is going to start getting involved with the youth group at the church that was started by the same people who started Brookhill. 

So much more is going on, as well, but I am so tired. My brain needs some time just to not think. But praise the Lord for what He has done so far this summer!