English Camp Prep

This past week has been fun but very busy. It is our last full week before we leave early next Tuesday morning for English Camps. It has been a week full of making plans, spending time with youth we won’t see again for over a month, saying goodbye to friends that will have moved by time we are back in Innsbruck, learning to drive stick shift, signing documents, packing, end of the school year parties, and preparing to move.

It is hard to realize that we will be leaving for so long. Both of us feel as though we are really connecting with various people and it seems crazy to stop all that and be gone for over a month. It is hard to leave but I know that right when we arrive at the airport picking up all of the Americans that are coming to help with English Camps we will be glad to be there. We are very much looking forward to being at camp once more.

I am sure that Camp will fly by and before we know it we will be back in Innsbruck for those two days and be moving into our new apartment (I am looking forward to no longer walking up the stairs to the 5^th floor every day). It is such a blessing that we are able to move in during those couple days even though the apartment is not officially ours for another week. Praise God.

Then we will head out for Slovenia for the EFCA Europe Conference. Followed by a week of us on vacation in Croatia. It will be fun visiting places that we have never been before.

I am not entirely sure when the next time I will be able to update our blog so here are a few things that you can be in prayer for us over.

-The drive to Munich to pick up the American team. They mostly only have stick shift vehicles here in Austria and that includes the 9 passenger vans we will be renting for camp. Seth and I have very little experience learning how to drive stick but they were in need of one of us driving (an empty van) to the airport to pick up the team and then someone else can take over. I am the one that is going to be driving because later at camp I will be a cook and need to take the van to get groceries and insurance wise we can only have two people on the van.  I had a driving lesson for a couple hours yesterday and that went well but it is very difficult considering most of the time you are driving either uphill or downhill. But overall I understand. However I was learning in a smaller town without much traffic but we will need to pick up the vans in Innsbruck on Monday. There will definitely be traffic but I will also get part of that day to practice as well but then early Tuesday morning we will head out for Munich, which is about a 2-hour drive. I’m not concerned about driving on the Autobahn since we won’t really ever be stopping. But the time in Innsbruck and Munich will definitely be challenging so please pray that everything goes well and that I am able to stay calm.

-The move. We are working on packing most everything that we own so that it is ready to be moved right away when we return. Just pray that everything goes smoothly and that we are able to communicate well in German.

-Pray for our last few days before we leave for camp that it will be a time that we are able to relax so that we are able to head to camp with full energy

-That Seth and I don’t get overwhelmed at camp and are still able to make time for each other.