“I’m only here for the food!”

This last week I was a volunteer EFY counselor and oh man!! It was AMAZING! In every sense of that word! I had a group of 8, 16-18 year old girls and then I was teamed up with a guy counselor with 7 boys and another girl counselor with 7 girls. We had so much fun! It was so cool to be able to teach and learn about the gospel all day! Except for at the dances of course. Which were also SO fun!  They actually expected counselors to be that way! And really it just came natural to me! AND my co-counselor Clif could dance swing! So I got to dance with him and it made him look REALLY good in front of his guys. They were in awe! As a counselor you can basically act as crazy as you want and the kids still think you are WAY cool! Anyway, I learned a lot about teaching the gospel and ways to invite the spirit and things like that. It just made me not so scared to talk about the things that I know. I just can’t even tell you how good it was for me! I am not so sure how much the girls got out of it, but it was life-changing for me!

Here are some of the things that I did that may prove why I wonder if I was the best counselor. First, I started off the week hitting on a married counselor…. yeah…. Who know that they could be married? Apparently in the area sessions they can be. (Area sessions are when the kids just come for the day and then go home at night. Those are the sessions that you can volunteer for) Then… I told my girls that I kinda thought that nose piercings were kinda cool looking. THEN!!! When we were talking to some of the head counselors and the session director (the man in charge of the whole thing) and everyone was quoting the movie Cool Runnings and I said “How ‘bout I draw a line down your head and make it look like a butt?” -Silence- (There I go again) sigh, I think I kept forgetting that I was an example and not just one of the kids. Oh well. I quite enjoyed the week. And I made a few goals to better my life at EFY and I start this week. It’s going to be great!

So now I am back to real life. I talked to a good friend Smelly on the phone today. Funny thing about her nickname. I really do call her that. Anyway, she inspired me. I just got off the phone feeling so empowered! And ready to do what I know I need to do! Something I have been putting off for too long. (long story) Anyway, I got off the phone with her and finished up 5 missionary letters that I wrote today! yay! I love Sundays. BRING ON THE WEEK!