Week Eight: HOT! HOT! HOT!

Last week seems so far away.  I can't actually remember a lot of stuff that happened.

Monday was Alan's birthday.  It was awesome!!  There was a dance party in the middle of Ryan's.  Of course the classic cake and ice cream, which was followed by frosting food fight.  Later than we went to get some frozen yogurt.  It was such a great night.

The worst part of that night was that our air conditioner died.  None of us slept well that night because our rooms got so hot!  We didn't get the air conditioner fixed then until Thursday afternoon, so after a couple of days of 100 degrees our house was really hot.  Wednesday night we had to spend the night at Ryan's because our house was too hot.  We were so thankful by Thursday evening.

Thursday night a few of us went to the midnight premier of Dark Knight Rises.  It was epic!  I haven't been a huge fan of Batman in years past, but I wanted to go for the experience.  I love that type of atmosphere!  What made it even better was that we decided to go on a whim, like 3 hours before it started.  The only bad part about that night was that I only got two hours of sleep.

Even thought I only got two hours of sleep, God had a lot of grace on me.  I felt pretty refreshed when I woke up and then service was super great.  I aware of Him most of the time and I was able to spend a lot of time in prayer while working with the kids.  That afternoon we had our second beach outing with the inner city guys that Jeff works out with.  We had a few more guys this time so that was awesome.  We all had a lot of fun hanging out.  I thought I would be super tired by that point, but I still had so much energy.

After the beach outing us second year guys headed back up to Pella for the weekend.  We didn't get to Pella until almost 10:00pm and after we pulled in I hung out with some of the interns and a few of the staff until midnight.

It was so awesome how God was my strength that day, even if the reason I got so little sleep was for my own enjoyment.  I think that just goes to show us how God cares for His children and wants us to have fun in the midst of serving and loving Him.  He loves what we love and He wants us to delight in Him in the things that we enjoy.

That's a quick run down of last week.  I can't believe after this week we only have one week left, and that's the wilderness trip.  CRAZY!!!  This summer has gone by so fast!