Pillow fight after pillow fight, and I am still undefeated. Sure... that isn't a huge accomplishment when all of the campers I go against are around 10, but it is still fun to fling campers all over the teepee when their legs are ripped from underneath them by the "war pillow". Oh yeah.

Since my last update, I have been doing a lot of prayer to try and find out what God has planned for my life after I leave Victory, and I am starting to realize that I am just getting started with the ministry that God has planned for me. First, I have been feeling a huge pull away from the Catholic beliefs that I have been learning for the past few years. The thing is that God has put me in a leadership position at St. Auggie's in Moscow so I am curious to see what he has planned for me relating to that. I am going to just ride it out and see.

Also, I am feeling that God wants me to go into my ministry sooner that I originally thought. I think that I am going to be attending Phildelphia Biblical Unversity in the winter where I will get a degree in biblical studies. Then with the knowledge of the bible and a year and a half of computer programming experience, God will be able to use me as he wishes. Who knows... maybe I will work at Victory again, or maybe he has other plans for me.

Last night I was talking to two of my campers about Christ and they decided to rededicate their lives to Christ. After we did that, they turned to me and asked me if I wanted to do the same, and I realized that I have not even thought about rededicating myself. It was awesome to do it, and is just me saying to the Lord, "Use me as you will." I love this work!

Well, I am going to head down to the waterfront now and hang out for a while, and then dive into the Word again. Keep me in your prayers.

This camp is getting cooler and cooler every week. Last week camp started on the 4th of July which was a little bit unfortunate because we couldn't set off fireworks or go see any firework displays... but I am really not that into fireworks anyway so I guess that is ok. What we did do was a big bar-b-que and have some fun down at the water front. They had sumo wrestling, zip lining, and banana boating. It was a fun 4th overall though.

Because the holiday was during our camp week, we had a lot less campers... actually we had almost a 1:1 ratio of counselors and campers, which meant lots more break time. One of the days during our break we had a chance to go horseback riding. Now, I have never been too into horseback riding, but I figured that I could handle 45 minutes of riding with no set up or clean up. There you go Dad... I have my dose of horses for the next year :).

Later in the week, we kicked all of the campers off of the banana boat so that we could do a counselors-only ride of the boat, which turned out to be a lot more fun than with the campers. We were flying everywhere on the lake and I think we all took on a lot of water but it was so much fun that we did it again on Saturday. Except the Saturday version was about 4 hours long... oh yeah!

We also took a trip to Valdez for our mid summer staff trip. You probably know Valdez because of the Exxon-Valdez oil spill of 1989, but it is a really nice port town too. So we got an extended weekend to hang out, and now this week will only be 4 days long. The only thing is that this week will be the youngest kids we will have all summer... 2nd graders! Dun dun.

Yeah... so keep me in your prayers. I am going to need strength, heath and patience. Also, pray that I continue to grow spiritually, because I have been seeing an unprecedented amount of growth in myself and I want to see that continue.

I put up some new picutures from the past two weeks, so check those out too.

Also, I hope that everyone else is having a good summer too. Drop me a line and tell me what is going on. I have been trying to keep in touch but it is hard here.

Week three is over and I am loving this more and more. I really love the routine, and everything is going great. I am starting to realize that these kids and everyone around me is having a much larger impact on me than I am ever going to have on them. I am seriously questioning where I want to go in life, but it is so great to trust in God because it has seemed to work pretty dang well for me so far.

Anyway, last weekend I went back to Amaris's house when I got some much needed rest and relaxation. We did nothing and I loved it. Ahh... the joys of not having a whiny and needy girlfriend... I can be myself around her. I love you Amaris. Not only that, but I found an awesome church in Eagle River. I am really starting to want to check out some other churches other than the Catholic Church. Not that there is anything wrong with the Catholic Church, but I am starting to feel like the rituals that the church does every week in mass is starting to get in the way of my relationship with the Lord, and the church that I went to with Amaris started to solidify that idea in my head.

But this week, God has really been teaching me a lot of things with the people who are around me. For one, there is another counselor who has really been getting on my (and most everyone else's) nerves pretty badly. At first, we didn't tell him about it but just let the whole situation fester. It eventually blew up on us all, but God has really been working on my patience. We still clash a little, but we sat down and came to an understanding and I found out that he honestly does not know when he is annoying everyone. So basically I am helping him realize when he is pushing people's buttons and he is helping me to be more understanding with him. This is so cool.

Also, the kids are forcing me to be a good example. There are a lot of things that I (and the other counselors) do jokingly with each other that is completely innocent but slightly inappropriate if you didn't know what we were doing. The kids are making me be a good Christian role model and really shape up my life. Honestly, it is something that I have really wanted to do anyway but it is so easy to just fall back into the same old lifestyle over and over.

But apart from my spiritual growth this week, I have been having a heck of a lot of fun. I have been getting really good at archery and riflery during the skill classes that I have been teaching. Also, the kids aren't kicking my butt at foosball anymore which is always nice.

But then there was the waterfront. For the past few weeks I was too chicken to go into the water because it is really really cold in there. The kids made fun of me but I had no problem admitting that I was chicken. This week I decided to face my fear and just jump in. Well... it was a blast. I was on the water trampoline with the kids and messing around with them in the water. Then I got a chance (actually, two chances) to ride the banana boat around the lake. It is basically a yellow boat that is long and skinny like a banana. It gets pulled around the lake behind a speed boat and tips pretty easily... that is when you are flying off a wake with four kids and me hanging on for dear life. Aww... it is sooo cool. Next week, I am going to go on the zip line! Oh yeah.

Well, I am going to sign off. Tomorrow I am going to hike up the mountain again and just have some nice quiet time with the Lord and enjoy the amazing view we have around here.