After dragging an oversized, overpacked backpack and more than 7 hours of driving, we arrived to camp. I was so excited! I immiediately picked out a few faces of the people I’d been talking to fo rthe past few months. 
Michelle ran up to me and we immediately became sisters. After meeting and greeting and eating dessert from New Zealand, it was time for our first talk. 
Jimmy spoke to us about being in God and allowing Him to work THROUGH us. I felt emotional already. He talked about how we need to lose ourselves and allow God to do whatever he wants to do through us. HIS WILL not OURS. When the talk finished we were given a task. We went on our first hike. Well, MY FIRST HIKE. We put ourselves in small groups of 4 or 5. My group was Michelle, Jesse, Lana and Nate. We got along well. Along he hike we were asked to EXCHANGE OUR WILL FOR GOD’S. During this hike a torch was our only light, leading us to 5 stations.
1. Camp
2. Team
3. The Route
4. God
5. Adventure
With each station we were asked to exchange our will for God’s, exchange our ideas and expectations for God’s will. What will camp be like? Exchange for God. What will our teammates be like? Exchange for God. What route will we go on? Exchange for God. What do I want God to do? Exchange for God. What is the adventure? Exchange for God. 
Ultimately it is all God’s will be done! Since returning from the hike I have seen this theme pass from sermon to sermon and through others. LET GOD’S WILL BE DONE.
We are being taught to actively listen during prayer, not just focus all time talking and making request, but just sitting there quietly waiting for God to speak. I was able to just be quiet this morning as we were awaken at 7:am to go on a hike with our packs. As we walked for nearly 35 minutes with our packs, I listened to music in which I heard nothing but songs about doing what God wants. “It’s not about us. But its about Jesus…”
Before lunch we had Praise and Worship. I really felt God’s presence. I love this freedom of worship. Some were laying prostrate before God, others kneeling in prayer, some jumping up and down waving hands, some weeping loudly, some praying out to God, some singing their own songs and some over in the corner drawing or writing. I was writing. I feel free worshipping God when I can write. I wrote “God I give myself to you. Coming to you in spirit and truth. I’m giving up my life. Please bury my misery and strife. Give me peace. Quiet me with your voice. Sing to me. I want, I need your presence. Rejoice over me.” When everyone is on one accord with a heart of worship, it is so easy to feel God’s presence. It’s as if we were ushering God right in. It’s nice to be in a room full of young adults crying out to Jesus.
You know, God wants an intimate relationship with all of us. It’s not about what we want. It is about what he wants to do through us. We have to actively listen to him and worship him.
Besides building intimacy with God we are eating food from different cultures, sleeping in a room with 30 girls on really high bunkbeds and using port a potties.
We are being taught to be appreciative no matter how we are living and what we are being fed. What right do we have to complain? I mean if Jesus didn’t complain about his rights when he was being unjustly beaten and crucified, we don’t need to complain about our circumstances. There are always going to be people living in worse conditions than us. Even in our daily lives it is important for us to worship God and LET HIS WILL BE DONE!
