Skoczow!

So, I know that I'm not in this picture, but it just shows you how our team works, Mickey has crazy hair, Becky and Tori are trying to straighten it and Tomek is involved, but uncertain as to how to use a straightener!

Yeahah, for cowboy night. We learned to line dance.

Tori and I were were dressed up for cowboy night, I was in a skit or silent film skit and was Daisy. Tori was the director.

This is us and the Americans and the Polish youth group the first day we were together.

So for Clown night all we had was some red and white face paint we had gotten for free out of this cookie package which was a promo for the World Cup for Poland. So we all had red and white face paint and you all can blame Tomek for the way I look because he was a little crazy.

So camp in Skoczow is finished and we said our good-byes yesterday. It was a really great camp, though a stretch for us all. So neither church we worked with had ever done camp before and so they had no idea what to expect and some of the things that they had prepared we had to come through and coxe them so that camp didn't blow up in our faces. Which it didn't and most of that is because God was really part of this camp. The other thing that really held us back was the lack of really good communication. For example, I know you all have seen that game in which you get a shirt wet and freeze it and then have two people put it on. So one of the Poles tell Tori that they should do this and Tori was like great idea, you get the T-shirts ready. When the T-shirts come out they were frozen in two buckets of water and the contestents started chucking the ice blocks on the ground and they weren't sure how they were going to get them on. One miscommunication after another like that happened. Some more serious. Also most of the campers where already believers and had heard the gospel many times and so the week in some ways felt like a waste of time for us because they Polish youth didn't branch out, but looking back it definetely was not a waste of time because at least one girl, Kasia came to know Christ and I know we challenged the rest of them in our discussion groups to Think Again(camp theme) about what they believed, hopefully bringing them closer to Christ. Our team also bonded because we were frustrated with some of the things that went on and every evening we would gather together in our room and eat food, talk about the day and lift each other up in prayer, it was a really sweet time and probably my favorite moments of camp.
On our field trip day we went to a high ropes course and then up a mountain on a ski lift and went on an alpine slide which was a great day for building relationships and team bonding in the high ropes course. The American youth did a great job, but struggled at times with there own struggles and teenage drama. The were young from 14-16 years old.
This week God has continued to bless me even though it has been my hardest weeks of the summer, it has been a really sweet week with Jesus. The beginning of the week feelings of anger and jealousy developed and I couldn't get out of them, but some of my actions put a wedge between me and the other girls even after there was reconcilation. So I have struggled about were I fit in that, but God has blessed me in that because he has opened the doors to conversation because that is what I had been praying for. I didn't want it to be accusation time, but talking and growing time and that is what I had been praying about.
That is the summary of my week, a lot more happened, but I could never write it all down. Praise God for his love and leading on this journey. Pray for Sweibojen as there is some persecution going on up there and pray for the Americans as they leave today to come here. Thank you all for you prayers and love.
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