With 3-8 young boys a week, I was a busy man! I didn't think it would be good for my personal life to negatively affect these young kids and their camp experience. I have a heart for the kids, and though it's most often not the easiest job in the world, I do enjoy counseling them.I hadn't done much planning for my trip to Bolivia, but I knew that it would all fall into place. After camp, I received an e-mail that explained that it had fallen, not in place, but apart! Apparently I was confused, and though I thought I had been unofficially accepted, the agency I had applied for did not accepted me, bringing some concern as to how I was going to get to Bolivia after all! I knew I was going, but apparently not with them. What to do? Camp was done, and I was just hanging out with friends, and doing whatever, wherever.
I got a chance to talk to Ken Switzer through facebook messages, and I explained that I couldn't go with the other agency. He suggested that I go with his missions organization, ITCA. Best give it a try, I thought.
As a side note, I know that not everyone reading this has the same ideas and beliefs as I do, so I'm just going to try to write this blog as factual from evidence as possible, if that makes sense.
So after the hospitality my cousin and his wife offered me, I came back to Saskatchewan for a camping trip. There were six of us total, and we were pumped for
this trip! So we got everything ready, and head up to Chitik Lake, Central Saskatchewan, and camped in Graeme's tent. Most nights were kinda painful with the rocks and dirt jutting into my back, but overall, the trip was just great! It was so nice to relax with old friends once again, just like old times.Not to mention the fact that I caught the biggest fish, off shore none the less!
One very memorable event was as fast as a flash, but rather excited and comforted me. For a while before the camping trip, I didn't feel as close to God as I have at other times in my life, I guess one could say.
One morning at the campsite, I was reading my bible, and all the woodland creatures were flying and crawling around me. Since I was a child, I have always been a little bugged by the fact that animals are just so frightened by people, they won't come close. I didn't know about Bolivia, as to how I was getting there, or anything, and I was just overall, tired of the complications, and I needed to know that God had it all under control. I prayed, "God, please just get one of these animals to land on me or something unusual like that, just so I can have a sign that You're here, and have this under control."
Not long after, others started to wake-up, and they were sitting around and I was just talking with them. THEN a dove flew and landed on my head! It soon flew off, but to me, it was just a little message saying, "I've still got this under control." Yay. :)
So on the 17th, I received an e-mail with some forms to fill out for ITCA, and I e-mailed the last one back today, the 22nd of August. I hope to hear back from them soon, and I guess I'll have more information about Bolivia and my trip when I do!
