Sunday.....A day of rest

We slept in until church today!! After church we went to this Mexican place with Josh and Matt. Then we pretty much rested until Sarah and Sofia came back. Sofia and I ran to Sam's to get a few things and when we returned the group was here! We ate dinner and got ready for Worship. Worship was fun! We danced and sang and everything was great! Now we are hanging out with the group. I am uploading photos on my computer and I will put some on here! :)

A fun filled day :)

This morning I woke up and went out to my car to find my car filled with balloons. Okay so the side story to this is that I mention that I am in a sorority in my talk I give on Tuesday nights, well the boys in my group thought this was funny so all week they have been saying a chant to  me every time they see me. It basically is them yelling DZ. Okay so this morning not only did I find my car filled with balloons, but each one was pink and had green DZ written on them. I didn't get a chance to take a picture, but maybe they will post the video because they took one. Anyway after that was taken care of I ate a quick breakfast and Stacey, Josh, Matt and I headed to King's Dominion, an amusement park that is near us. The rest of the day was filled with roller coasters and water slides. It was awesome, but we returned a little after midnight and were exhausted!! Tomorrow campers come and I will let you all know how that goes!!

Whew...

I am so full!!! WE just ate a huge meal at Olive Garden! Today was a work/play day. We had to say goodbye to the Korean church :( Then Stacey and I had to go to work! Sarah and Sofia went sightseeing with Aloma youth group. We also went to buy tickets to go to King's Dominion. They sale them cheaper at this grocery store, so we went to THREE just to find them! When we finally did it paid off because the woman gave us $25 off!! After that we had to go to meet with two different people about worksites and sadly neither of them turned out to be things that we could do. We met with the youth group in DC and went to a few sights. We came back to VA to eat dinner at Olive Garden and now I'm going to go to sleep, so that I will be rested for KING"S DOMION tomorrow! YAY! Can you tell I'm excited?? 

Work Hard, Play Hard

And that is exactly what we did......Today after having to stay an hour later than planned and still not getting all the work done we left Mr. Roberson's. The group worked really hard and got as much as feasibly possible done. There is only a little bit left to do! We headed to Taco Bell and got lunch then came back to the church. I took a little nap, and while I slept my group set up a 100 ft. slip-n-slide down a HUGE hill. They awoke me and I joined them them sliding down the hill. It was pretty much awesome. Only a few walked away injured. My worst injury was that I hit a rock while sliding once and was airborne.... After the fun adventure I got a shower and got ready for worship. Tonight was the servanthood foot washing. It was great. My group washed my feet. It was an amazing experience. Afterwards they invited the staff to affirmation, which is basically them telling the others in their group ways that they have seen Christ through them. They were super sweet to the staff and said some amazing things to us. I have thoroughly enjoyed them this week. They have worked hard and I have seen them grow. I must brag on two boys out of the group that stepped us this week and were great examples for not only the young boys, but for the guys in the other youth group as well. Tonight they took the initiative to not only wash their group's feet, but ours and the bands as well. It was great. They are such servants. Okay so that is all for tonight. I've been to Wendy's for ice cream and now it is bedtime. :)

Tired, but not regretful

Today as the alarm went off at 7 am. I almost regretted my decision....almost. I awoke though and headed to breakfast. After breakfast I took 23 of the the campers to my worksite. This is significant because I normally take 14. I was a little nervous about finding them all work to do, but when I arrived there was still a great deal to take care of. We worked and finally the boys actually needed my help in roofing! Up until now they knew jsut as much or more than I did about it, but they had never roll roofed, so I got to teach them! My entire afternoon and most of my morning was spent on the roof. We are almost done now! The others got a lot done also. One more day and we should be finished! After a full day on the roof and being completely covered in tar from head to toe we ended the day. I came back to the church and took a quick shower to TRY and get the tar off. After I had to run to the grocery store to get stuff for the cookout then headed to the cook out. After the cookout we came back for worship. It was pretty great tonight!! Then I skyped with Jamey for a bit and now I'm going to bed!! I'm exhausted!! I have to wake up early to go to Lowe's :( sad sad day.....Hopefully I can sleep some tomorrow....

A day late, but better than never!

Okay so again nothing too exciting happening today. Breakfast then off to a food pantry. We worked pretty pretty hard. The people were very particular about how everything was done. Not mean or anything just particular. After a long exhausting day of moving tons of canned goods (and meeting Canadian people who were also helping) We headed home. At home I  hung out, went to Lowe's and had dinner. Then Worship and after worship I learned that I had completely forgotten about the midnight release of HARRY POTTER!!! Matt and Becky (she needs a story,but I will wait until the end) invited me to join then, so after persuading Stacey that I would be okay with no sleep we left. We arrived at 10:15 but didn't line up until just before 11. We got into the theater that was of course super crowded. They had twelve theaters playing the midnight release, but every single one was packed!  There were some people dressed up and the whole deal. It was quite entertaining. The movie was really good, but the major climax of the movie was actually not so climatic, so I was a little disappointed. All was well and I returned to the church at about 3am. Sleep took control soon after.

Work Day ONE!!

Today we had breakfast. We headed off to our worksite, but when I got in my car I was left with no gas! I ran by the gas station and while I was at the gas station an entire cooler spilled in the church van, so they had to turn back around and get a new one. After that fiasco we finally got on the road. We had a full day. We began to roof and found out that all the plywood under the shingles was warped and had to be replaced. A few boys started on that project and the others did yard work. There was a ton of yard work to be done! They worked very hard and got a lot done! We headed back about three and stopped at chick-fil-a for ice cream. I took the group to get showers and just as we got back from showers the dinner was ready. During dinner I learned an Asian game!! It was so fun! After dinner it was Worship and nothing too exciting happened there. After worship we served the groups ice cream. Okay so I haven't mentioned this yet, but the Asians eat CRAZY amounts of food. The smaller they are the more they eat. Now we have just been hanging out and the Asians taught me another game! It is soon time for my lights out. I'm pretty exhausted.....Tomorrow is food pantry.