so i know that i haven't blogged in a while and that's my fault. some of you might know, but i decided to come to camp for the ENTIRE summer! crazy, i know. today is an off day and i'm currently sitting in san francisco bread company with some others hanging out and i thought that this would be a good time to update my blog because i know that my readers are getting anxious. here it goes:
on wednesday the 21st i went to memorial and stayed the night with ryan simpson because him, anne marie, sarah bett and i were waking up the next morning to drive up here to mt. ida. well we finally get to camp and its awkward because 95% of the people who are returners are people who worked last year and not the year before. i immediately am like uh....what am i getting myself into? well, we had a lifeline and it was soo much fun getting back into the swing of camp ozark. well, my co's name is garrett mcmullin and he's from state (like most of the kids are) and he was pretty cool. the first years in my cabin were pretty awesome. i was on chris eisenlohr's tribal comp team so that meant that i had to be extra crazy good on the field. we started off playing flickerball and that was pretty much hell on earth. seriously though, hell. well orientation was pretty tough. by wednesday i was so tired of seeing people my own age here and i was getting so pumped and ready for the kids. i knew that i needed to get through the week and the kids would finally be here. it was kinda funny because while doing all the tribal comp stuff and the swim meet and the ultimate solution, i feel like a lot of the guys underestimated me athletically, which is AWESOME. i must say that it was good surprising people with my athletically ability. maybe its because i'm fat and mexican and they don't expect someone who's fat and mexican and sassy? to be a pretty okay athlete. oh well, go caddo. caddo ended up losing the orientation session by about 2 1/2 people. they had a 34 second lead going into ultimate solution and they held it the entire time so there was nothing really that we could've done to cut at it. it was fun though. in the past week, i have had two of the most ridiculous worship services ever. there was one where a group of people gathered at central park to worship on our own and as we were worshiping, it was started to lighting. it was probably one of the most crazy, spiritual things to ever happen to me. then, it started to rain and we started to worship in the rain. if you've never done it, i HIGHLY recommend it. it was sooooo good to see God move. the second one being the worship service we had last night with a husband and wife from houston come in and do it for us. i forgot their names but they were awesome. so i'm in cabin 52 and i have 11 and 12 year olds. if you know anything about camp ozark you know that that's extremely weird! 1st session is a very young session so we don't have many older kids. the summit, which is for the oldest kids at camp, should have 15 and up but this session they have 13 year olds which is pretty ridiculous. my co is hunter ainsworth from state and joey decosta, blair's best friend from high school. i'm way pumped about these two guys and about our kids. we have eight campers and that's like four per person (joey is on lake crew so he will have limited time with them). so i'm way pumped about that. i'm coaching the next oldest kids so i'm excited!
bros and siss in christ, please please please be praying for energy and enthusiasm! i'm having a tough time finding encouragement. i don't have anyone here at camp that i was really close with back at texas so its been tough. so please be praying. if you could send me letters or packages or anything, that would be so greatly appreciated. i will put the address at the bottom. i, of course, am missing all of you back in austin. a small part of me wishes i could be in austin doing life with yall. i know i have to be here though. when you go through what i went through, you know that God has a plan and that it's perfect. because of this i'm trying not to let anything get me down and i'm going to be myself. if people don't like it, it's not my concern. i've been too concerned with how people view me and what they think of me. i won't let satan control that anymore. secondly, i'm going to start trusting Christ with more and more and more. i was a fool to think that he wouldn't provide for me and he did! he provided me with a job all summer and a great guy to sublease my room for the entire summer. i'm not at all worried about any problems happening in austin because i'm so concerned with my plan here.
i gotta go but know that i love yall a lot. be praying.
in Him,
hectee
hector garza
155 camp ozark drive
mount ida, arkansas 71957
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