EFY- Salt Lake City 2

Another week of EFY down. This summer is seriously flying by with all these weeks of EFY! And right now, I basically just don't want EFY to end. Because then I'm going to have to grow up and figure out what I'm really doing with my life. Can't I just be an EFY counselor forever? :P

I was in Salt Lake again this week, but this time I was with the 14-15 year-olds. I had a blast. And I was in a much better mood this week, so I felt like I was a much more effective counselor. I also had a GREAT Thursday night "payoff", which was made even better after having a bit of a rough Thursday afternoon. The payoff? Every single one of our kids bore their testimony during testimony meeting. I wasn't expecting that at all, but it was a really neat thing. The Spirit was so strong and I knew that I had helped to make at least a small difference in their lives.

This week was especially nice because our company was just made up of two counselor groups- my 10 girls, and then my co-counselor David's 10 guys. Having an exact amount of guys and girls was so awesome, in my opinion. And David was an absolute rock star, especially since I was on musical program duty this week, which meant I was helping with that during lunch and free time. So David had to make sure both his guys and my girls were good during those times without me and herd them around by himself. I felt like David and I were really united. We also just had a blast... especially when we showed our participants pick-up lines and moves during games night. They then started spreading rumors that I was in love with David, but that he was in love with another counselor. This provided many opportunities for outrageous flirting in front of our kids to see their reactions. Hilarious. Also hilarious... me not being able to dance much at all, but whenever I did something at the dance, I would see at least 2-3 kids start doing what I'm doing. Love it.

Me and David

Our company at games night. (The kids decided our company name to be "One and Only", based on James 17:3.)

This week also provided a lot of personal insight and revelation for me. But that'll have to be another post.

After the session, a few of us counselors went to City Creek, which was cool, since I'd never been there before. (Sorry... no pictures to prove it.) But we were all pretty exhausted, so we didn't stay too long. I'll have to go back another time when I have more energy.

I'm definitely going to miss being at EFY next week. It's definitely become a part of me, even after just three weeks. I love those kids and the counselors that I work with. But it'll be good to catch up on some much-needed sleep and hang out with friends that I haven't really been able to hang out with. Life is good.