This was another good week.... I was in the barn again and it was a lot of work and hot days. But it was still wicked awesome. We had absolutely zero accidents so it was nice, and there were quite a few kids who overcame their fears and hopped on a horse! I was excstatic... and my second star class was wonderful this week.
This week was a 12-14 week so it was a little bit of a teen week. Man, I forgot how hectic teen weeks are. You look left and right and there's kids just hookin up everywhere; kids trying to sneak out of wagons; kids pickin fights; kids threatening you.... it's crazy. There were a few iffy kids this week. One who was on probation and another that was actually sent home because of his behaviour, but all these kids have just been told stuff for too long that they just believe it and act that way. There was definately fear the first few days, but we talked it out as staff and realized that our God is a God of love and we need to show these kids an exceeding amount of it.
I'm so pleased with how much change there was this week. I mean seriously, there were such transformations this week. The kids who came in here and gave us a lot of trouble...by the end of it they were apologizing for their behaviour, language, everything. And actually....the kid who was on probation, he got hit hard by the spirit of God....so hard that the devil didn't like what was going on and there was major spiritual warfare. One night...on our freedom night actually (Thursday), he started hearing voices in his head from satan or w/e.... telling him really strange things. And his behaviour was doing major peaks and lows. I'm pretty sure that he was half being possessed or something, he would get this look in his eyes every once in a while and say something ridiculously vulgar and start doing this meniacle laughter...seriously creepy, but the dude, Justynn, who was with him remained calm and in the spirit and continued to love on him and just speak life into him and he would go back to being this sweet kid....it went on for like an hour and a half like this...it was crazy. But still, so sweet that we're doing such great works in the kingdom. If we can influence one kid enough that the enemy goes wild...we've done our job.
Other than that, there's nothing else to really say..... I'll be back in the barn this week...which is unfortunate because this was the last week that I would have been able to counsel cause I'm leaving next week and won't come back until teen week...and I'm still a teen myself so I'm not going to counsel. Bummer...major bummer. I was really looking forward to counselling this summer :( Maybe if I'm called back to a week or so next year I'll get the chance.... but horse staff is still sweet.... I'm still influencing kids this way :)
Love you all. <3
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