New Staff Training 2006

Yes! I have rediscovered the love of being read too! I have always appreciated a great story but without a great storyteller is just not as...well great! So besides Ms. Akins, my second grade teacher, Anna Carter and John Moye are my new favorite story"readers", if you will...and I will! :)
With that said...
Being at New Staff Training for YL is daily becoming a huge priviledge! I got here two days ago and many of you will understand when I say that I was like the camp golden retriever! The moment we stepped off the bus, everything was like being at Disneyworld with your closest friends :) Wait, wait, wait...back up this started before I even left the hotel. Okay, I was sitting in the hotel lobby (finishing my amazing paper) :) When all of a sudden, THE Sara Doughty walked through the front door...I sat there stareing in disbelief. I couldn't believe it really was her. (The last time I had seen her(co-guide for "the city" that we took up One-Eye at Beyond) was at Cindy's house in Seattle a year and a half ago and heard from her before Christmas when I got the update letter of her commiting to MCYM-YL on military base in Germany) Anyways, I GOT to sit by this sweet sister all the way to Fun Time Ranch :) Yippee! But it just kept getting better! I got off the bus turned to my left and there was none other than THE Susan Greene (aka "Wrangler Susan" and co-superstar laundry folder with me at Trail West) and as soon as I finished hugging her, I turned to my right and there was none other than THE Jessica Ann Cofer (co-student staffer for Chattanooga YL-we love to cry together for kids). I was like a kid in a candy shop. I found my room and Sara Doughty is my "bunkmate" (Beyond, you understand the depths of what this means ) :) Yep..I pretty much WON! :) Then I go outside to find Chris, Josh and Mark are still here from last year working as Guest Services :) Then...it gets even cooler...I walk into the snack bar to find Michelle Trissler (Sea Kayaking guide at Beyond '02-'03) yeah..she is interning at Frontier for the year :) Okay, so then after dinner the first night, I am in the dining hall and I hear this very very high pitch scream..yep its none other thanTHE Bethany Christin Dayton and she is so excited to see... ME!We hug and laugh so loud, of course everyone is looking at us jumping around. Mal McSwan, had to come and talk to us about our volume, but not b/c we were a bother but b/c...if you know Mal, he LOVES stories and he has to know the story behind the screams :) (I LOVE that man!)...okay okay even more... Then that first morning at Chapel I turn to leave the amazing time in worship and find no other than Kelly (co-lover of laundry at Malibu for two summers!...yep Hof..I WIN!) So great! I love being here and I love meeting new friends and I can't wait to see where else GOd takes me! If this is not a foreshadowing of even just a taste of what Heaven will be like than I don't know what will.
It is almost day three and I am still so thrilled to be able to be here with so many great folks that are beginning the journey with me :) PTL! I am so very Blessed! :) Thank you Jesus!