I came into training camp thinking it was going to be like
Orientation in college, Res Life training, and the training for being a camp
counselor. It has been those
things, but it has been a whole lot more as well. To be completely honest, it has been like camp. It has been applicable lessons for this
next year and for life in general.
Each day is a new and different experience, as well as each meal and
session deal with something that we could potentially be 
facing over this next
year. I fully trust that God will
provide me with the funds, the friends, and the extended family that my squad
will become for me. We still
haven’t found out our squads yet, or our leaders or even our launch dates, that
will all be coming up shortly — but until then I am just praying for
discernment on behalf of the staff that I will be placed in the appropriate
group. It’s weird to think that my
experience and my life in the next year is completely reliant on the choices
the staff make, the intervention of God, and my personal feedback on various
scenarios. If for nothing else,
being an RA this past year will certainly help with my initial adjustment and
evaluation of my team — I just hope that although the tone will most certainly
be different from that situation, that there is that sense of family and that
we will be able to build up the Kingdom through our faith and interactions.
