CrAzY June!

So far this summer, you could definitely say we've been running around like a couple of chickens with our heads cut off! We have been so blessed this summer with our circumstances to be able to go to both youth camp and world changers with our youth group!

We went to youth camp at Highland Lakes around Austin. Incase you couldn't guess, IT WAS SOOO HOT!! Inspite of the heat, we had a GREAT time with the kiddos! Not only did we get to do some awesome activities like banana boating, zip lining, swimming, flag football, and other stuff, but we also got to worship and get into the word with our favorite people. Mom got to come and was a sponsor in the same age group as me as well :). Probably the best part for us individually was how much God really impacted our marriage throughout the week! He did some amazing things in both of us individually, which really impacted us as a couple! Yay God!

We had one week off, then it was off to Corpus for world changers! World Changers is another youth camp, but this time it is mission based. And if we thought we were hot in Austin, we were wrooooong. Corpus was very hot and humid... needless to say, we definitely put our sweat into each project! All of the people from each church are split up and mixed crews are made and put onto different work sites. Mickey was the crew cheif for a group of high school students at a house where they took off an old roof and put on another one. In fact, all of our high school students were placed on roofing crews and even though it seemed like each crew had some big set backs, every job was finished on time! I had the opportunity to be a crew encourager for a junior high group that painted a house, then went to another house to help with major yard clean up! It was a long week, with lots of hard work, lots of heat, only two toilets for about 100 girls, showers in a disaster relief trailor... but it was also a week of watching kids give soooo selflessly to help people who can not help themselves and to show love to those who need it most. Understand... these kids actually PAY to take a whole week of their summer and go do manual labor because they love Jesus and value humans as Gods greatest creation. You can't imagine how rewarding it was for us to have to chance to serve as sponsors on this trip!

All our love,
M&K