Jaycee In Latvia: A swollen hand, and 9 toe nails later….

…A bug of unknown figure or name bit me! And my hand blew up like a balloon, and I decided to kick a stump and lost my toe nail, well almost it is still “hangin in there” :D just a few of the fun things during “tent camp hell…oh so much fun!”

We are back from our first camp! 5 full days, one shower, sleeping in tents, freezing my booty off, getting bit by things that I did not know even existed, mud, sun, clouds, rain, snow… just kidding;)

And best of all over 50 kids from the age of 8 to 12!!! Oh, was it a camp to remember! It was definitely full of adventure and no doubt filled with the power of Christ, because let me tell you… this 27 year old body could not do it with out HIM helping me every step of the way.
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cannot remember any time throughout that week that I did not have someone on my back or running from that activity to another or swimming in freeeeeeezing cold water, or doing all that pre teens just thrive on!
I am tired, but blessed!
I had a group of 5 young girls and 2 girls who were my tent leaders (in training you can say) both of which I had the blessing of meeting as campers three years previous in the same camp! What a blessing to be serving alongside them now! That is the beautiful thing called Discipleship!!! Ahhh I cant get over it!
The 5 girls that we had in our tent all professed that they were not Christians and did not seem to have much desire to know about him or really want to go deep at all. If I am honest I was relieved by this, just for the fact that it was not a show with them. They did not give the good ole religious answers and try to please us by their knowledge of who this Jesus we were talking about is. They were real to the core, which burned a fire inside of me for them and their souls!
I would love to tell you that by the end of the camp they were transformed. I would love to say that they have given their life’s fully to the savior of their life! I would love to share with you a change in their hearts. But all I can say is that God is at work in their hearts. I can see little lights of hope. I could see through out the week the battle for their souls! And it got me excited yet again for what Jesus is doing here in Latvia.

It was a great start to a crazy summer!

Our next camp is starting next Tuesday and we will spend this week creating our English curriculum for the next two camps, which will be English camps, and for teens. I am stoked!~

We spent the weekend celebrating “Jani” which is the mid-summers-eve celebration here in Latvia. It was just the Interns chillin at the beach… it was a great day of fellowship and bonding!