Would you like to hear about camp, oh?

So let me start off by explaining the title to this post. One night at camp we were having a talk in our cabin about various cultural differences between Australia, Canada, and the states...a cultural exchange if you will. My teammate deron and I decided that every country should have a vowel sound at the end of their sentences since Canada has the whole "aeh" thing going on. We tossed around the idea of the "oo" sound and "sometimes y" but finally we thought "oh" would be the best. So that's my story about that, oh.

So training. Incredible. And Incredibly crazy. Some quick highlights (please check the pictures I posted...they are all new!):

I'm learning a ton spiritually. We had a day of solitude that went from 4:30pm on one day till 7:30pm the next. It was very cool. And there's more but not gonna post it hear and now. It's just a great growth environment. Everyone is so supportive, and it also demands support from me for others. It's a very selfless kind of environment that is very different from normal life. I really hope I can retain some of the nobler qualities that have been stirred up in me after this year.

I've had a lot of fun both practicing music and interacting with people. My team is awesome. We've had some conflicts and struggles already but I really think it's gonna work out great.

We had our first semi-booking. Last week we went to a church and did a puppet show and like 4 worship songs for both services. Everyone was very encouraging which created a relaxing setting for our first booking. Plus we didn't have to do a whole lot. Some teams had to do full programs including leading games the night before for the kids.

The staff is way cool. They threw us a party the last night where they all dressed like pirates and acted accordingly. Al, the guy who runs the camp, had to walk the plank off the pontoon boat.

There's a guy on team named Nick who was friends with Luke Venstrum. Actually he was in a band with Luke at Valpo. Crazy. He's totally cool. Him and I decided to start an annual YE frisbee golf tournament at Lutherdell. We had 26 people participate. We were totally hard core about it too. We created 3 tee positions for all 18 holes and each day people played at the next hardest tee position (3 day tourny). We used different color spray paint to make the tee lines so it was pretty looking. We also created awesome scorecards which included a map of the course included the various tee positions. It was so HC. The winner got a t-shirt with the logo for the tourny on it. They signed the back of it and wrote the year next to their name. Then next year the winner of that tourny gets the shirt and adds their name to the back and so forth through the ages. Cool eh? We were gonna have a toilet bowl too and award a golden toilet bowl cleaner but it got rained out.

Okay those were just small tidbits as I could talk forever, and I need to get to bed. I love and miss you all. Thx for the letters those who have sent some. They have been utter encouragements you have no clue.

in Christ,
jason