Week 1

Day 1- Ahhhhhh we’re here! Well, not ALL the way “here”, but we are in Indiana so that kind of counts. It’s pretty cool up north, wish it were COOLER than Georgia, I think it’s actually hotter here than home. We drove pretty much the whole time, stopping only for breakfast and lunch, and got to Lawrenceburg around 3 or so and…….Mom is trying to spy on me…..hey Mom….. ok so back to writing, and I’m getting stoked for the Creation museum tomorrow. Random announcement #1 :Ffor dinner, we went to Arby’s and as we walked in, the radio was playing Brooke Fraser “Shadowfeet.” Made…my…night.

Day 2-So tonight is the last night with Mom and Dad. We have all been kind of out of it today, but I guess that is kind of expected. Went to Creation Museum today which was pretty cool, had someone tell me that they liked my shirt too. That’s the SECOND time in 3 days that that has happened, must be a sign for something. Tomorrow we will make it to camp annnnnd then after that, who knows? It’s really bizarre tonight, this feeling, hopefully by tomorrow it’ll be all gone so I won’t do something ridiculous. Fingers crossed! :D

Day3- So finally, we are HERE here. I’m actually cheating a little because right now it is the morning of the 4^th day, but oh well. Got to the camp round 2:30 or so, and finished some paper work. I’m rooming with Clay and Justin (who is still asleep as we speak) and we’ve already made an alliance with the guys next door in case someone decides to prank us. The afternoon and evening were cool, and I have meet pretty much everyone on my team now face to face (which is much better than Facebook to Facebook). Yesterday was definitely a shotgun experience so hopefully today will be a little calmer.

Day 4- Ok, so the first day of singing was today, twas not what I expected. I now have a new appreciation for singers of any type. It’s HARD work people, but it’s really cool, I am immensely enjoying it. Learning a lot of new stuff every day, and I am really enjoying everyone on the team. And…my mouth hurts like never before. After all my years of talking, and one day of singing makes my jaw hurt. Haha, go ahead, make jokes, I sure did. This will probably be my first prayer request, that God will strengthen me so that I will be able to sing and keep it strong throughout the entire practice, for 6 hours a day J

Day 5- So I know this won’t be all 7 days, and no, I won’t be giving a day by day all year, just wanted to start the year off by letting you all know what the first week was like. Right now, I am sitting here in the practice church listening to the band play “Standing Ovation” and listening to a recording of “I am”, one of our A cappella songs (hard but a LOT of fun to sing). The crew has been great, and it’s been neat getting to meet all the team members, new and old. We had one of our first team outings last night, and we had to make a cheer for Life Action. It was pretty much the best thing ever, complete with a sandal drum line and pom poms. Revival week is coming up next week and I am looking forward to it a lot. In between my quiet time and morning prayer time on the dock, I think there are a LOT of things I am going to learn next week.

NOW, a couple house keeping things.

1^st: The wifi here isn’t amazing, so Facebook doesn’t always work and Skype is even worse, but I will try my best if any of you want to chat, but it’ll have to be in a free time and I just won’t have long for right now this month. Texts are always welcome. J

2^nd: My first prayer request to you all: Insecurity. My worship leader, Dustin, talked to me one day here about being transparent so I am going to be transparent with my prayer warriors. God has convicted me of a lot of insecurity in my life, and that is not right because God is where my security comes from, so if you all could just pray for that, I would be grateful. Thanks for all the support and help so far!