In the Dead of Winter: Snow, Kansas City, EMT Training, and Student Ministry

It finally snowed on Saturday! And boy, did it ever snow! I don't know how many inches we got, but I never saw so much snow besides in the mountains! This was perfect for our open house on Sunday, where we finally got to use the sledding hill. Since a bunch of people and their families were here, we had a lot of fun. We tried to see how many people we could fit on one tube (I think our record was six), "accidentally" crashed into other people (although the side of my face really hurts from one of these incidents), and just hung out in general.

Then on Monday, the five of us left in the full-time internship program headed to Kansas City. On the way there, I got to taste something that my taste buds have been longing for during the past 12 years: Chick-Fil-A! I got a spicy chicken sandwich, and it was delish. Then we continued on to Missouri.We stayed at the KC Sentral house, which was ridiculous:

The bedroom I stayed in- I guess I've gotta get used to having my own room!

 We stayed at the house awhile, eating pizza and playing games, but then later in the evening we went to a church for our evening session. It was a cool little church, inside an unfurnished basement. The topic of the meeting that day and the next was about spiritual wellness. The speaker was great and she really got me thinking of the ways I've been neglecting my relationship with the Spirit lately. After that, we went back to the house, watched the newest episode of How I Met Your Mother, and stayed up late just talking. The next morning, I woke up to this:

We brought the snow with us from Nebraska! Apparently, though, us bringing the cold to Kansas City only made Nebraska colder; we found out it was 1 degree in Omaha that morning! After some breakfast and general chilling out, we went back to the church for an all-day session.

It was a great session. I loved seeing the variety of people, but the connection because of the Holy Spirit. I loved experimenting through the conversations, walks, and prayers. During the breaks, we were treated with some great food like scones, chai, sandwiches, and water that didn't taste like sulfur!

To top off a nice time away from Nebraska, we ate at the above Bar-b-q restaurant. It's kind of weird to think that Missouri actually is kind of "Down South". Other than a couple murals of famous black people, I didn't really seem to notice it until we went to this joint. I've never been South before, but this is exactly what I suspect it would be like! The rest of the trip home was filled with conversations of what we learned and what we are currently going through. 

Today was our first day of EMT class! I'm really excited about it, even though it seems like a lot of time and effort to go through (and probably lots of situations that will make me squeamish!) Besides the seven of us from camp, there are maybe five other guys. Oh yeah, and I'm the only girl in the class! Jeff is teaching the class part-time along with another instructor. The college campus itself seems alright. It was originally a middle school building, so it's not too fancy or big, but there's an ambulance that we get to use (in addition to our time at the fire department), and it comes with many "college benefits", like tutoring, tax benefits, student discounts in several places in town, etc. They also have a popcorn day once a week, and this week's popcorn day happened to be today. We loaded up on lots of free popcorn!

It's been a full day; recovering from Kansas City, going to a really long day of class, and winding down with leading student ministry (Sarah's in Vegas so Jr Hi was all on my shoulders!). I played Bible games with them in an attempt to get the girls to get excited about it and learn some things. I hope it worked at least a little!

In conclusion, winter doesn't bring much excitement to camp, but that's great because it's obvious that my schedule's pretty full anyway!