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Hey everybody this is Myles,
I just wanted to give an update on how I have been and how burn camp went. Life has been good, I've just been hanging out and being really sleepy because I just got home. Burn camp was so more than what I expected. Last Friday was full of anticipation, I woke up from hardly sleeping and sat around just waiting and waiting. We left for the airport at around noon and my flight took off at around 4 pm. The first day was filled with introductions and meeting new people. I met a friend, named Drake, and we ended up hanging out together all week. We were both the new guys on the trip. Second day was more exciting with rapids and kayaking, mosquitoes were pretty bad. The third day, was even more fun since everyone started to get the camping spirit and playfulness. Rapids got a little bigger and water fights got more crazy. We camped along the shore every night, the food was great (we even had pork tenderloin with halibut) and sat around in a big circle and talked about the day and each other. The fourth day was one of my favorites because it had the biggest rapids and I was one of the first new campers to go on them in a kayak. That day I was really sore because of all the paddling and rowing. We used an Eskimo blanket to fling people in the air, we flipped over the rafts and made a water slide with them, we lined up the kayaks and tried to run across them without falling in the water, and fun stuff like that. The hardest part of the trip was leaving my new friends, but we had a great time and are going to keep in touch. The fifth day was hard because it was the last night that we got to spend together but we made it count by doing all of the fun stuff. We woke up early on the sixth day so we could get on the bus and take the six hour drive to Salt Lake City. Then I flew home. I had a really great trip and can't wait for next year.
Will post some pictures when I get them done. I even had my toenails painted by the girls!
Love to all,
Myles
I just wanted to give an update on how I have been and how burn camp went. Life has been good, I've just been hanging out and being really sleepy because I just got home. Burn camp was so more than what I expected. Last Friday was full of anticipation, I woke up from hardly sleeping and sat around just waiting and waiting. We left for the airport at around noon and my flight took off at around 4 pm. The first day was filled with introductions and meeting new people. I met a friend, named Drake, and we ended up hanging out together all week. We were both the new guys on the trip. Second day was more exciting with rapids and kayaking, mosquitoes were pretty bad. The third day, was even more fun since everyone started to get the camping spirit and playfulness. Rapids got a little bigger and water fights got more crazy. We camped along the shore every night, the food was great (we even had pork tenderloin with halibut) and sat around in a big circle and talked about the day and each other. The fourth day was one of my favorites because it had the biggest rapids and I was one of the first new campers to go on them in a kayak. That day I was really sore because of all the paddling and rowing. We used an Eskimo blanket to fling people in the air, we flipped over the rafts and made a water slide with them, we lined up the kayaks and tried to run across them without falling in the water, and fun stuff like that. The hardest part of the trip was leaving my new friends, but we had a great time and are going to keep in touch. The fifth day was hard because it was the last night that we got to spend together but we made it count by doing all of the fun stuff. We woke up early on the sixth day so we could get on the bus and take the six hour drive to Salt Lake City. Then I flew home. I had a really great trip and can't wait for next year.
Will post some pictures when I get them done. I even had my toenails painted by the girls!
Love to all,
Myles
5 comments:
WOW Myles, sounds like you had a great time. I can't wait to see the pictures of the toesnails. But best of all, all the pictures of your new friends, and more and more stories about what the experience meant to you. YOU are loved, give my love to your mom, and brother. Remember prayers continue and continue!
Much love!! Aunt K8
The Savior Won
Saturday, June 21, 2008
“God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.”
Acts 2:36
A transformed group stood beside a transformed Peter as he announced: “Therefore let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.”
No timidity in his words. No reluctance. About three thousand people believed his message.
The apostles sparked a movement. The people became followers of the death-conqueror. They couldn’t hear enough or say enough about him. People began to call them “Christ-ians.” Christ was their model, their message. They preached “Jesus Christ and him crucified,” not for the lack of another topic, but because they couldn’t exhaust this one.
What unlocked the doors of the apostles’ hearts?
Simple. They saw Jesus. They encountered the Christ. Their sins collided with their Savior and their Savior won!
Why Worship?What Love Does
Monday, June 23, 2008
“I was without clothes, and you gave me something to wear.”
Matthew 25:36
What if you were given the privilege of Mary? What if God himself were placed in your arms as a naked baby? Would you not do what she did? “She wrapped the baby with pieces of cloth” (Luke 2:7).
The baby Jesus, still wet from the womb, was cold and chilled. So this mother did what any mother would do; she did what love does: She covered him.
Wouldn’t you cherish an opportunity to do the same? You have one. Such opportunities come your way every day. Jesus said, “I was without clothes, and you gave me something to wear…I tell you the truth, anything you did for even the least of my people here, you also did for me” (Matt. 25: 36, 40).
WOW, that is love. Hope all is well. Myles, I love love love the toenails. They make the MAN! Cause, it takes a real man to wear pink. LOL. Much love and continued prayers to all. Aunt k8
Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Myles, I read this . . . i saw YOU! Have a great day! Much love and continued prayers to all! Aunt K8
God in the Ordinary
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
“In Christ we can come before God with freedom and without fear.”
Ephesians 3:12
God calls us in a real world…He doesn’t communicate by stacking stars in the heavens or reincarnating grandparents from the grave…
He’s not a magician or a good-luck charm or the man upstairs. He is, instead, the Creator of the universe who is right here in the thick of our day-to-day world who speaks to you more through cooing babies and hungry bellies than he ever will through horoscopes, zodiac papers, or weeping Madonnas.
If you get some supernatural vision or hear some strange voice in the night, don’t get too carried away. It could be God or it could be indigestion, and you don’t want to misinterpret one for the other.
God speaks in our world. We just have to learn to hear him…amidst the ordinary.
Myles:
I love what Emerson writes: Let us be silent so that we can hear the whisper of God. Hope all is well. Much love and continued prayers to all. Aunt K8
Hey Myles,
Glad you had a great time,but lose the paint on the nails. Not cool.
Uncle Tom
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