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Its Day 6 of our first camp week at Malibu. This has been a nice change of pace. Day 4 and 5 for us as head leaders are extremely wild. On day 4 in the evening there is a lot of crowd control due to a carnival, opera, dance, and pool party. We got to bed no earlier than 1:00 am and had to wake up at 6 am to do a ropes course. Now this ropes course is work for us, because as an assignment team we are all in the ropes course helping kids through it. In fact I was in the trees for almost 6 hours yesterday. I actually had a lot of fun with the day, talking to kids, encouraging them, and celebrating with them. Then the rest of day 5 is spent organizing leaders so the work crew kids (high school kids who spend a month working here) can take the day off. Let’s just say I slept hard last night.

Joanna and Silas are doing very well. We got to spend time as a family swimming on day 4, but for the most part the past few days we haven’t gotten too much time together. Silas hasn’t tried escaping ever since the first night, to Joanna’s relief. Joanna is enjoying the opportunity to meet a lot of Adult Guests and talk with adults, as opposed to a 2 year old most the day. We are also working on babysitting for Silas so she has some peaceful time. Last night we had a party with all the adult guests, which included excellent food and good conversation.

Last night after an all camp quiet time (where each student spends 20minutes alone somewhere on the property), we had a few students out of cabins still, so we were searching for a few. I found one young guy, Fritz, who was hanging out on the rocks. As I was walking him back to his cabin, he turned to me and said, “I’ve decided to give my life back to Jesus.” He went on to say that he had always been looking for reasons to doubt, and decided that even though he will always have questions, he was ready to start on the path towards God. I was excited for him. His friends said that he was very quiet and closed off the past two years, but suddenly has been way open over the past couple days. Its great to see these students opening up and letting themselves feel life.