Myrtle Beach!

Not gonna lie y'all, I'm so tired I don't really want to write this and would much rather take a nap, but I don't know when I'll have enough free time later and I promised I'd keep you all informed.

So today is Sunday, and I'm having a really hard time believing that I just met my staff on Tuesday. We're already really close. I was afraid that since I was showing up a week late that I would feel left out or just not as close to everyone, but they welcomed me in with open arms and easy explanations of all their inside jokes. It's hard to believe that with 11 people we would all get along and have no cliques of subgroups within our staff, but that's the way it's happening, and it's amazing. I was really worried about there being division among my staff this summer, but this, this is fantastic. Everyone here is wonderful and very sweet, and we all just love spending time together. I really think we have one of the best Teameffort staff this summer. It's truly exceptional how close we all are, and to say I'm excited about it seems like a major understatement. They make my heart feel warm and fuzzy. We're going to have a great summer together.

I think we were here about ten minutes before I solidified my reputation as the happy and excited one on the staff. I couldn't help it! I was so excited to be here (and I still am!) that I just couldn't stop expressing my joy. I'm normally a very joyful person, but it was just overflowing out of me like never before. Me being excited about something isn't exactly noteworthy, but I'm telling you about this because when we stopped and prayed for the summer before we began to unpack, oh man, it was the coolest thing, I could literally feel God SMILING at me. He was excited because I was so excited, and He was pleased to see the gift of joy that He gave me spilling out of me like that. It was like He was saying, "Look at her! Look at my daughter, she's so excited! I made her to be like that! Isn't it great?". I could literally feel my creator taking delight in me, and it was so revealing of how God loves us and enjoys it when we use the gifts He gave us. So wonderful : )

No campers until next week : / Apparently only one group signed up for the first week of camp, which would have been beginning today, so they called them an asked them to come the following week. I wish we were getting campers now, but I've been waiting since July so I guess another week won't hurt. Besides, that means the last few days and this next week will be very relaxed, because we have so much extra time to set up camp. It's nice.

So far, an excellent beginning to what I hope will be an even more excellent summer.