Week Six!

After training how to set up and run all the events for two weeks our first camp rolls in, if you really think about it we only have two weeks to learn everything we need to learn about how to facilitate, how to T.A.C, how to do Operations and Guest Services and Chapel and Administration etc etc etc.

The first camp that came I was a Stamper which is where you go through all the events just like a camper, just to get the experience and perspective.  Camp Bighorn does it when they have small camps; run summer staff who haven’t been a camper at Bighorn before through the “stamper week”. 

That was really cool for me to be able to kind of see into what a camper experiences during their time here.  I felt like it really helped my to understand how they feel in that position.

Week four I was on Guest Services for the last couple of days after coming back from my family reunion. That was a little bit difficult for me to connect with the campers that week because I had to come in half way through the week, but it was still good the little bit of time I got to talk with some of the campers.

Week five I was on Operations, on operations you fix things that are broken and you build things like they are building a new Operations building so we work on that but it is mainly a lot of odd jobs.  I was kind of exited for my week on operations just because every one says that operations is a cool experience and that I would enjoy it, so I was looking forward to that until I got sick.  I had to take some time off for that which was hard for me because I knew that I could push myself and do it, but people just had to tell me that, "Yea I could, but I would never get better if I did."  So they had me take some time off just to heal, I took a day off and the next morning I was like, I can work but then they had me take more time off and it was kind of hard for me just to rest during that time because I felt like I was letting people down and wasn’t pulling my own weight, but then some one on the Operations team told me that pulling my own weight would be to get better and to just rest. The last couple of days when I was sick I  took some time and read my Bible and I felt a lot more peace when I was just reading my Bible and lying down.

This coming week I am TACing rock climbing, I am really exited about it because that is what I wanted to do this week.  I am a little bit anxious about it just because I am thinking like, “oh what if I forget how to tie this knot” or, “what if I forget this” or this thing or, or, or.  So I am praying that not only I don’t forget those things but that I can just rest in the comfort that even if I do forget something it is going to be okay. We appreciate your prayers for the challenges that we have, and are and will be going through this summer!

~DeLancey Grace