For team time today I went swimming with the girls. I would have pictures but I had too much fun hanging out in the pool with them and I even went off of the diving board ☺
Today we had seminars and most of our students went to one called Digital Love where they talked about how different media (TV, Movies, magazines, and the internet). At the end of the seminar they showed the dove commercial where it shows how they take an already pretty person into an ad and how much they change her and even elongate her neck and change her face to where it doesn’t even look like her. It makes you think what kind of beauty do we base ourselves on anyway? The question that they asked that I liked the best was they asked how many people have ever felt that they were as pretty as the models in the magazine. You know not a person raised their hand?!?! It really was a great seminar.
Then we were off to lunch and then we played ultimate duck duck goose. OOH it was so much fun! Unfortunately there was a boy named Zack that got hurt while we were playing and he fractured his ankle in 3 places so we had to stop the game a little early because they didn’t want the kids around while the ambulance was there. [It turns out he’s ok. They thought that he was going to have to go through 3 days of surgery and was home after just one night ☺]. Ending the game early allowed us to have an extra long rest and relaxation time, and from what I heard from the other councelors, the extra long time was completely fine!
I need to back up a second just to explain what happened today at free time. So two nights ago at dinner Kelsey was talking about how she had an older brother, so I jokingly asked if he was single and she said yes and we got in this big discussion about his likes, dislikes, what he does for a living, what he looks like, etc. Kathy came to the conclusion that Kelsey needed to “Hook it up!” So since then, we’ve been joking that I was going to marry Kelsey’s older brother, Josh. Today at free time the girls all threw me a “bridal shower.” They made me a tiara and card and ring at the craft condo and they bought me ice cream and made me other cool things. It was so sweet. And then they sat around and played a “spin the bottle” type of game with my nail polishes. [You place the colors around in a circle and then you spin the clear bottle and where ever it’s pointing, that’s what color you paint your first nail and you go around the circle until all your nails are painted. It’s actually pretty cool.]
One of my favorite things so far this week was dinner tonight. The theme was Dinner Les Internationale. We were served by the AIMers and they started by serving one table rice, beans, taco fillings, tortillas, and all the goodies to go with tacos. They made sure that the table was very satisfied and offered refills and back rubs. They waited a while until they started serving the other tables, but they only served 5 more tables beans and rice. Our table was one of the ones that got the beans and rice. The girls were starting to pick up on what was going on. Then we noticed that all the other tables were just getting rice. Our table decided to give our leftover beans to Kathy’s table and then I noticed that they gave the rest of the beans to another table. At first they didn’t get it, but then they realized what was being taught and what they were doing. One of the girls even asked if they were going to get real dinner after they learned their lesson, because they had learned their lesson.
One thing I really appreciated was that after we had all eaten, Jonathan came on the microphone and said that it was up to the “Western Culture” table, but they would be given as much food as they wanted if they wished to share it with us. They agreed and then helped to serve all the tables with all the taco stuff. Our girls went CRAZY when the food arrived. I also liked how they emphasized that we’ve been blessed with food so it’s good that we not waste it and eat it since it has been provided for us.
After dinner we had a talent show and Katy and Jaime did a dance that they choreographed during free time. It was really good. Then off to CAMPFIRE we went.
Tonight’s talk was the alter-call talk. Ryan talked on Loving the Lord your God with all your mind and he really emphasized the whole Lordship part of Salvation. It was so good and what I really appreciated was when he did the alter call he didn’t force the issue. He let it be real and didn’t manipulate the emotions like some people do. Some people from our church committed to Christ for the first time and quite a few recommitted their lives. It was a wonderful time of worship and a great talk.
Well off to bed! I get to sleep in tomorrow!
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