Camp #2 cont.

I wanted writing about my second camp. We had around 40 students and then 20 leaders. In the sports that I was doing in the morning we had around 13 students and then I think 6 leaders. We did 3 days of softball, 2 days of soccer and 1 day of American football. I wish you could have seen them playing football. They didn't understand it at all. After explaining the game, we went to play flag football and on the first play, one of the Americans threw the ball to one of the Czech's, he caught the ball and then immediately threw it up field. They didn't get it. We had 2 days of football planned but they hated it so we played softball instead. My highlight of the week were our discussion groups after the talk each night. I had 5 students from the sports group in my discussion group. They were all boys who were the older bunch. I started leading the discussion group the 2nd night. I had an interpreter that was great. The first few nights, it was very difficult to get them to participate at all. Finally one night, I just decided to share my testimony(life story) and then left it up to just let them ask me questions for a while. They started opening up a bit and asking me questions about my life, soccer, girls, etc. I think it was really good for them to see how open I was. It was like it helped them trust me more. The next night they were a lot more open. I think this was day 4. I found out 3 out of the 5 kids in my group didn't believe in the Bible. One of them said he didn't believe in the Bible or God but after hearing the stories that week he was starting to wonder if there really is a God. This is the same night i told them I'd be staying for the next two months. They were so excited. I found out 4 of the 5 live right next to me. The night was the high for me. I really felt like I knew why God had me hear. I was building great relationships with these kids who live by me, look up to me, trusts me and wants to hang out. It was amazing to see how at the beginning of the week,they didn't want to participate in anything till the end they were having a blast and participating.

After the camp, we had a follow up were the other Americans would stay with the students in there homes and we had things planned to everyday. One day we played air soft and cooked hot dogs and smores over a fire. Another day played volleyball, softball and then grilled hamburgers. Another day we had a program at the Castle in Vsetin were everyone and there parents were invited to come. The gospel was shared, there was a slideshow of pictures from the week and then did songs that we did during the week. The songs were a huge part of the week. Every morning and night we would do the camp song. The camp song was "Never going back to ok" by the afters. If you are curious about the song you can click on the this link. We had hand motions to do with the songs that everyone would get into. Also we would do songs like "Pharaoh Pharaoh" and some other classics that we would do hand motions with.