Wednesday, August 13, 2008

This week has been a crazy week. First, we have two groups overlapping and running on different schedules so we feel like we are constantly juggling things like vehicles, schedules, sight-seeing trips, work projects, trips to the airport, and etc. Second, we found a large sea turtle on our property that laid eggs so we had the job of trying to keep it alive until the DNR (Department of Natural Resources) could come take care of it. Then a couple of days later we found baby sea turtles wandering around on the other side of camp so once again we had to save the turtles and wait for DNR. Since then the DNR has invaded our property in search for sea turtles. (Its kind of scary running into them in the middle of the night walking around our property.) Third, our camp secretary and financial manager, Tamara, just found out that she has to be on bed rest for the next couple of weeks which means that we have to not only juggle all the work crews but also fill in her shoes. So instead of working 60 hour weeks with a day off, Mike and I will be working 90 hour weeks with no days off (not even Sunday). Please pray for us during this time! Pray that we will have patience, strength, perseverance, joy, enthusiasm, good health, and so on.

Also, we wanted to tell you about one of the work crews that we worked with this week. They are a group from Palm Bay, Florida. They were so laid-back, adventurous, and had such servants' hearts. They were constantly surprising us! This group of 8 had more senior citizens than young adults. Yet when we didn't have a vehicle to go get Frappes (an awesome PR treat that all of our groups love), they all piled in the back of the pickup truck (despite the sprinkling rain) including an 84 year old man and his 74 year old wife. And they did that a few times throughout their time with us. Then on Sunday, we usually take the groups to the rainforest. Older groups will usually go to a rainforest that is further away and has a paved path for them to walk to a swimming area and younger groups will go to the rainforest that has waterfalls and a high cliff to jump from but requires some treacherous hiking. This group surprised us by wanting to go to the rainforest with the waterfalls instead of the other. And they had a blast! They were a fun group!

Unfortunately, for some reason, we still can't upload any pictures on our blog. But we'll keep trying. Sorry!

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