Maybe Teaching Archery Was A Bad Idea...

Well this past week was Daniel's last week with the CK7 team.
This was also Taylor's week to teach archery.
Talk about some new experiences.

Sunday night I sat down with Daniel and we went through the debriefs for the track and I suddenly got extremely nervous. I had helped Daniel the first week so I kind of knew what was going on, but not really.

Monday came and Daniel and I woke up early and did some work in the morning and got some really good conversation, then the camp week began. Literally within the first thirty minutes of registration it began to rain. And when I say rain, I mean pour. T-shirts moves inside and we continue to get work done no matter what weather... I guess you could just call us the United States Post Office.

Bible study went great this past week and the kids loved it, but probably the most exciting news is the Riptides won the Captain's Oar the first day at recreation! I nearly flipped out because I was so excited! I set up the archery track time and literally just began to pray. Track A went great without a hitch and track B suddenly became interesting. I had another child with Autism in this track and his name was Dima. He came up and told me on the first day that he probably wouldn't be able to participate a lot because he didn't do well waiting in lines and concentrating on something he didn't want to do. I thought that it was going to be a challenge whenever he started having the time of his life. He started challenging people to shooting competitions because he enjoyed it so much! It was amazing to see him in the zone! Throughout the weeks track times Dima became my AA (archery assistant) and he absolutely loved giving the commands and helping me out with whatever needed to be done. Dima quickly worked his way into my heart and it was a struggle to see him leave on Friday.

Not only did the Riptides win the Oar on Friday, WE WON THE ENTIRE COLOR COMPETITION. Which outside of camp that seems like no big deal, but seeing how competitive I am it was awesome to see all of our hard work paid off and the kids got to live in the victory for a little bit!

I am slowly coming to the realization of me going home and being without my team. I'm super excited to return to my family and friends but I know that my time for this summer is almost up, but that doesn't mean that God stops working in my life. He just starts working in a different way.