EFY

So. instead of trying to recap my summer so far in one ginormous post, I shall take it in installments. So this is EFY. My first week was basically incredible. Our youth were 16-18 and so cool and they made it the best week ever. look at their sweet faces. I truly had amazing youth. It was an amazing start to the summer.

Another reason why, is these guys. These are my co-counselors Kayla and Josh and they are awesome. What was so intimidating is that this was their very first week ever as counselors, but they were teaching like they had been doing it for years. They were truly a blessing. I was so lucky to have them as cos.

And then for the sake of keeping the blog brief, only one more cool experience from that week. I had the privilege of having Callan in my group again. She was in my group my last week last summer and then I had her again. She is truly one of the sweetest, kindest, most amazing girls ever. I just love her to death.

So that was my first week and it was awesome.

My second week was amazing as well. I had a group of 14 and 15 year olds for the first time ever and I was so scared. I was terrified of them, but they turned out to be so sweet and so much fun. Kelan was my co and he is phenomenal. It was heaven sent that I had him for a co that week. Kelan just works so well with the younger group and he made everything fun. We just had a blast. I know there are pictures of the two of us out there somewhere, but I do not have access to them. So all I could find was this big group picture on facebook.

I just love them. I had heard that the 14 and 15 year olds don't respond as much in lessons and were too ADD but my youth were spectacular. They always had wonderful, insightful comments and were no different attention wise as my 16 to 18 year olds. They were just precious.

Ok, so here is my third and final week. I didn't think it could get any better but it did. I had the older group again and Ricky as my co. Funny thing is, Kelan and Ricky are hard core BFFs so it was hilarious when Ricky would crack a joke that Kelan did the week earlier or when they would joke around with each other during the week. Again we just had so much fun. Our group that week was unbelievably unified. There were so many little miracles that week and it was incredible to watch them help each other and build each other up. It was such a good week I cried Saturday morning when it sunk in that I had to go home because I was done. Just like my first group was the perfect start, this group was the perfect end.

I just absolutely adore them. I love EFY and I love the youth. I love teaching them, I just love being around them. Our future's in good hands.