TEC 28 - Take Me...

Hello all! So I sit here at this trusty library computer on a Friday morning, preparing to head into work in about 45 min where I will stay until 9:00 p.m. this evening. I work Saturday from 9-5 as well. And, I must say that the thought of a weekend filled with work and not Tintern and my fabulous wheat crew family is weighing heavily on my heart. :( Let me explain...

In my previous post, I mentioned that I was heading to Tintern retreat center near Oakdale, NE to help with the Teens Encounter Christ retreat last weekend. It was amazing in every way possible!!! My role for this TEC was to serve as the assistant wheat crew director. The wheat crew is the group of 15 individuals (depicted in the awesome mustache picture above)responsible for the behind the scenes work - dishes, cleaning, setting up, games, you name it. But, more importantly, the crew is the prayer group of the weekend. We pray over the speakers and keep adoration in the chapel. I would never be able to do the weekend any justice with any sort of description on here, so I will simply say that 27 young candidates walked away after experiencing Christ's love and a full crew did the same.

I met some amazing people on the weekend who I am now calling my newest friends. We did so many great things like running at the odd hours of 5 and 3 a.m., painting a gorgeous banner to a melodious song and getting a little messy with the paint in the meantime, playing dress-up with random clothes in an old back closet, singing off-beat and off-tune, yet beautifully,behind a campfire, beneath the stars on a very powerful/eye-opening evening, bonding until 4:30 a.m.......sleeping only 4 hours in 3 nights....

Anyway, I returned to Yankton completely exhausted, but absolutely refreshed. I was also a bit confused on time. I had my phone turned off all weekend and so I missed quite a few calls on Tuesday and Wednesday because I had grown accustomed to not worrying about reporting to my phone. I was thrown right back into the chaos of work and life and it was slightly overwhelming. I feel like I need a week of pure summer sun and relaxation to process things and recuperate. But, instead, I've been getting phone calls from my friends asking me what the weekend plans are. It has only resulted in a lot of confusion, as I do not feel like it is the weekend again already and I have not had time to consider plans...nor do I want to. I'm feeling very go-with-the-flow-ish....could be quite a random weekend. I do get to see Brittany, one of my very favorite people in the whole world tonight after work though!! :)

In the meantime, I am taking the MCAT in less than two weeks and I have done MINIMAL studying. I think I should panic now....

Summer. is. running. away. :(