My Favorite Campers

This past week I got to serve at Hope Lutheran Church in Temecula. This was my second year at Hope and I loved it! I was very excited to return to my favorite campers from last summer! Our team had six wonderful people and it was such a blessing to work with them all! The girls stayed at a beautiful home in Murrieta and thoroughly enjoyed our luxury accommodations and the boys stayed with an amazing couple about 5 minutes from the church. We had wonderful meals and host families all week! We got to meet some amazing people during our stay. My all-time favorite campers go to this camp. We had 29 kids and they were CRAY-ZAY! They were bouncing off the walls and driving us up the wall most of the time because they weren't real big on the whole listening thing but despite the difficult kiddies I still loved getting to spend the week with my favorite kids! I had the third graders for Bible Study this week and we had so much fun reading and acting out the Bible stories. They also loved my guitar and trying to play it and singing together. It was a pure joy to be with these amazing kids and I'm going to miss them so much! In addition to working with great kids all week..I got to meet lots of dogs. There was a dog at every host home we went to! God's humor? I think so! I am not a big fan of four-legged creatures of any variety but this week I fell in love with the dogs we stayed with! There were two Yorkies and an old Golden Retriever. They were adorable and so much fun to play with! The weather was pretty gross this week and the humidity made the kids insane but we got to go swimming almost everyday and the warm evenings were great for driving with the windows down! I loved being back in Temecula and getting to see the wonderful families I met last summer! Now I must pack for my trip to New Orleans tonight and my last two weeks of camp!
Missing my favorite kiddos,
Amanda