Kaleo Ministry #9

<--My roomies :) 

Soooo past week has been an adventure :)

Where do I start! Well i go to go caving on Tuesday and it was really sweet! I was very nervous about going but i'm parksville m glad i went and experienced it! Now i can say i went caving! We went just outside of to caves called "horn lakes caves" i believe that was the name. We all had helmets and head lamps on going into the caves. There were spiders and it was a bit wet. I enjoyed it a bit but i was sure glad to get out of there when we were done lol. There is something about being in small tiny spaces and spiders around you that doesn't make me feel the best haha. We also did homeless ministry that was on Monday and i already have told about that experience a bit. It was defiantly amazing!

Youth group was pretty good on wednesday. It was kind of frustrating trying to talk to my girls in our small group when they were so chatty. But all in all it was sweet spending some time with them getting to know them better. I helped out at church that week as well with sunday school. It was fun. Only thing was that i pulled an all-nighter the night before so it was funny not sleeping at all basically from 10am saturday until 11pm sunday night. It was well worth it though i got alot of homework done. 

On the weekend Camp Qwanoes had a Junior high retreat at the camp. I had the privelage to be a counsellor of 8 girls from friday to saturday. It was lots of fun! It was a very long weekend though and so many things to do and very busy! The girls in my cabin were really sweet and all unique in their own way. THe whole weekend was about be careful of what you speak and what your actions reflect. The speaker brought a real tongue in from a cow! It was so gross but defiantly caught the kids attention! We talked about how to uplift people and not put them down with our words. He was a pretty sweet speaker and i believe he got the message across pretty well. THe last night on saturday night the kids all got together and we sang some songs and than the speaker Mark came up for a few minutes just to talk. He asked the kids to close there eyes and bow there heads and he was going to give time to have popcorn prayer. He told the kids to say out loud a word or something they are scared of or worried for in life. The things that these 10,11,12 year olds had to say were unbelievable. Some things that were said were: scared of growing old, scared of being popular, not fitting in, death, not being liked, being bullied. Wow i was defiantly amazed by some of the words that came out of there mouths. All in all the weekend was good and I have some of my girls on facebook to keep in touch with so it's sweet!

Soooo other than that my week was pretty good!

Some things for prayer could be:

-missions trips that i am led to go on the right one

-to get my work done

-to trust in God in rough patches

thanks so much for reading this i appreciate it lots

Love ALivia