I have been in colorado for 37 days? Someone pinch me.

"Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you maybe be successful wherever you go. Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful."

-Joshua 1:7-8

I really never could sit down to just read the bible without a purpose. It was always for a devotion, church, or a bible study. I just have never been good at just leisurely reading the bible. So a couple weeks ago we talked about meditation in term of reading God's word. Andrea, who was teaching the lesson encouraged us to try and read through the entire bible in a year. She ask that we be able to sit down and read scripture as if we were reading any other literature. So the meditation part comes in after we read, that as we continue on with our daily tasks and jobs that we mediate on what we read. So this was an odd thing for me, cause I am more use to taking apart scripture verse by verse. This being so different has been really cool. I can sit down and read 5 chapters and see scripture more holistically and as a story. I am starting with the new testament, then I will begin the old, and hopefully finish towards the end of the internship! Oh and by end of april I will have all 106 verses of James memorized.

Well onto the work part of my life, I have learned even more.. go figure. I have put in a entire irrigation and sprinkler system, laid top soil, and laid Sod. All of which was on my birthday, before 15 inches of snow fell over night. CHEERS, to snow on your birthday for the first time ever! I have shoveled snow. Lots of it. I can use snow blower without breaking anything. I have single handedly fixed a faucet. And as of last Thursday and Friday learned to use a chain saw to cut and split fire wood... and I still have all my arms and legs, Success! I have also brought out the electrician in me by replacing light fixtures and exit signs. Needless to say, my resume needs to be updated. 

Before

After laying Sod

 As of now my clothes are keeping me warm. But we have only had temps down -7. The low last year got down to NEGATIVE 60. YES, -60. So mom if your reading this, Santa needs to bring a warm, weather proof, insulated jacket. Thanks! Well in other news I have already been here for 5 weeks and time has flown! The people God has put here to work on this camp are nothing short of incredible. This past week we had a staff retreat out to Trail West- YoungLife's Family Camp, and we got to just hang out for a couple days. On the 2nd night there we had a all Colorado Divisional Camp Dinner. Which meant all the Colorado Camps got to have a super fancy dinner and had worship lead by Jonah Werner. Its pretty cool that I work for a place that worships together. Its how it should be. Well until next time, I'll try to keep myself warm, and try to update this more than I have been. Peace & Blessings!