Home For A Short Time...

Well, I'm back home (briefly!) This morning I need to do some laundry, take a trip to the dump, and some shopping (kind of weird to be doing grocery shopping during the summer...normally, since I'm just home on the weekends, I have enough stuff in my cupboards to make it through the summer...but this whole thing of bringing my own food to camp with me is just one more preparation that I need to do each weekend.)

Then this afternoon (or evening - I'm not sure which) I'm taking some of our youth group teens to the movies. I'm looking forward to that! Of course, those turkeys (ha ha...I'm just kidding, in case you read this Erica, Lindsay and Alex!) have already seen the movie, but I guess I can forgive them for that. ;)

For anyone who is interested, here is a hike report: Blueberry Mountain Hike Report. I was going to hike this with Brian and his family, but I got to camp and found out that it was actually part of the camp activities, so I ended up doing it Monday morning with campers, instead of Thursday afternoon with Brian and crew. I was kind of sad I didn't get to see the Kingfield crew, but at least I did get to see them this summer when I went to the Kingfield Pops concert!

It was nice to see Miss Kay (Karolyne) who was a counselor at Blueberry Mtn, and who I hadn't seen in quite a while. It was also nice this week to meet "Uncle Dave", and pray with him each morning for the camp, the staff, and the campers.

Tomorrow morning I'm at Carthage, and then I head to Camp Berea!

Oh! One more thing I forgot to mention - the missionary speaker at camp was Lura Bodwell, who worked with the Fulani people in Nigeria. This was particularly interesting to me because Rita Salls worked with the Fulani in Niger. And...Lura knew Rita. It was really nice to chat with her, both about missions in Africa and about the things we were going to be teaching - there were several times during the week that our lessons overlapped, or talking with her helped me figure out some ideas about how I wanted to teach a particular lesson.

Teamwork is such a great thing!

Okay, and one more thing...a couple of the campers told me that they have older brothers/sisters whose math teacher is...Mr. Twitchell!