Ice cube showers.

I just got out of an ice cold shower... literally, there were ice cubs coming out of the shower. It was quite a nuisance, I mean have you ever had ice cubes showered upon you? It's distressful. Any ways it was refreshing, and it elicit memories of the Chicago missions trip......

All the teenagers were at the beach, and the water was SUPER cold. I mean, it was piercing... my bump turned purple. But it was really enjoyable and pleasant. All of use had the VBS songs stuck in our heads, so we started singing them in the water...and doing the motions, which was pure awesomeness. So we decided we're all going to swim out to this pole like thing. So we start going, and it is freezing! But Beth is the first one to do it. She just starts swimming, she gets to a point were she can't touch the bottom, but she keeps going. And then we all join in (All the girls did, I mean). It was so much fun. The water was so invigorating....hmmm, maybe I should join the frozen polar bear club (or what ever it's called.) But that trip was so good, everyone was so convivial. It kept me fastened on whats really crucial- spreading the gospel, helping others, spending time with God, sharing a bathroom with 14 other people...wait I don't think that's one of them. But we did do that, which wasn't that bad for me. I can take quick ,cold showers if I have to............Why does everything I write keep coming back to cold water. It's like this kid at vbs, I think his name was Joshua, who had a fascination with water. I had this bottle water out next to my stuff in the corner (I had the lid on and everything, so the kids wouldn't spill it, silly me ;) and the next thing I hear is "Watch this." I turn around, because when you hear a kid say that they're either about to die or do something stupid, and he had unscrewed my lid and dumped the water out. "Why did you do that?" I ask, his response "I don't know." lol. That was funny. Then later that day he dumped his own drink out, and then the next day he put a pen in Beth's water bottle. Man, I had so much fun on that trip!

One of the coolest things was, when we were out side playing games, and two little boys curl right up next to me. One didn't feel good, I don't remember his name, and then the other one was Elijah. Then earlier that week Danny came and curled right up on me, it was sooo cute. I really needed that to, cause I was having a hard time the first two days, and he kinda pulled me out of my funk. That was such a fantastically, awesomely, stupendously, sensational, week. -Sarah