Kyle working on the obstacle course.
Jimmy on the new repelling wall.
A group shot of the first camp.
Jimmy working on the craft with his cabin. The guy he is working with in this picture was in my cabin last year.
A group shot of camp 2.
Stephen and I arrived on Friday at the very end of Camp 2. We arrived at the village we were going to be picked up at 3pm. We didn't know when they were going to pick us up so we had to stay at the airport instead of going into the village. We didn't get picked up till a little before 8pm, so we were pretty tired of waiting by the time we got picked up.
The kids arriving for the Junior High camp on Monday.
My cabin doing archery.
Here I am hanging out with two of the guys in my cabin who were brothers.
Jimmy broke his leg on Tuesday evening while he was playing basketball. It was a clean break on his femur, so it was pretty bad. They flew him to a nearby village, and from there he was flown to Anchorage. We're all really disappointed he had to go home so soon... we're definitely missing him.
Since Jimmy left abruptly, we had to divide the guys in his cabin out to the other cabins. The "Yukon" cabin did miss him though, so they got this picture on top of the hill.
Kyle and a number of the guys hanging out on top of the hill.
On Wednesday everyone hikes to the top of a nearby hill. A new activity we do this year is launch rockets on top of the hill. I got this picture of a rocket launching with Kako in the background. I thought it turned out pretty cool.
Here is the group shot from Camp 3.
On Wednesday evening we had a bonfire with marshmallows.
And some singing.
For the kids to get seconds on marshmallows, they had to swing the marshmallows on the end of a string in to each others mouths. It was great fun to watch.
The guys in my cabin on Friday morning before they headed home. I'm really happy because a couple of my guys got really homesick during the week, but at the end of the week, they all told me they had fun and wanted to come next year. They also told me that I was "really fun", so that pretty much made my week. :) Most importantly I think they all understand the gospel now to more extent, and they realize they need to be saved. It is really confusing for them because they hear that they are already "Christians" because they got baptized, took communion, or any other number of thing they hear from their village priest.
Last night after all the kids had flown home, some of us rafted down the creek to the lake, and met up with the rest of the counselors at the lake and camped overnight. It was really pretty rafting all the way down to the lake, but it did get pretty tiring. I think it took us about 3-4 hours. It wasn't the most physically relaxing time, but it was definitely mentally refreshing.
Please pray for us as this next week is High School week. A ton of people have flown in the last few days, so there are a lot of people around that we don't know very well. Most of them are just staying for a week or two, but it is nice to know the people you are working with. I'm also coming down with a cold, and a number of the other guys are too.
Hopefully I'll be able to do another post while I'm up here, but I'm not making any promises. :)
