Today was a slow day. R and I worked on our stories for an Albanian camo we will be doing next weekend. We are given charge over the teens. The story of the entire camp is Joseph from Genesis. We both decided that it would be more fun to act out the story rather than just read it and to have the teens act it out as well. Also, we were given charge of the game time on Friday evening. Now, I am not an athletic person (literally had to look up how many people are on the field per team in soccer). I was worried about creating sports, but then I remembered all the games that I did in the Drama Club in High School, Global Youth Camps, and school assemblies. With these, we have decided to do soccer, a stretcher run, a blind obstacle course, and then finish with either a fill-the-bucket/dodgeball challenge or Dude. the difficulty of creating the activities is that the entire family is a part of the games. This camp is not just for one age group, but it is for the entire family. We are expecting anywhere from 40-60 people in the camp and maybe 12 people in the teens. It was really fun to organize the plans and start to run through our senes even though we are well over a week ahead. The hard part is, once again, the language barrier. So I am more in the background as in character wise. However, I am starting to learn German, and, according to some of the people I work with, I am starting to pick up pretty fast. These next few weeks are a blur to me, but I know that God has something for me. He has already pushed me outside of my limits and I know that he will do that even more in the next few weeks.
When we finished the first part of our preparation, R and I went down to the local church where we had lunch with the seniors. We were there to make company with them as Hoffnung Fur Zurich (Hope for Zurich) partners with that church. We spent about three hours there, spending time with them, telling them why I am here, and then we helped to clean up. Afterward, R and I had to do some chores around the house (not so fun, but we did get to walk around the city and talk to each other to get to know each other more).
I have been able to do a lot of reflection throughout the past couple of days (it will be a week tomorrow), and I can not help but praise God. I am not right in the mountains as I thought, but if I go just a little more up the hill, I can see the Alps. Some may not know this, but I feel God more when I am in his masterpiece. This is not the only thing that reminds me to praise him, but I see it as Nature itself is praising him, so, I will join it.
"He is your praise. He is your God, who has done for you these great and terrifying things that your eyes have seen." Deuteronomy 10:21 (ESV)
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