Wednesday was my super scary day of Summer Splash. It was my day to meet the senior high and spring my project on them all at once. I had a hot dog and chili for lunch… now why I remember that beats me. Anyway, so we got to a late start and I felt like a complete dork rushing into the van where I figured “cool” teens would be in. I was shocked to find only three girls in the front and John in the back. (John is Geri’s 16 yr. old son so I knew his name already). I was really shy and just stared in silence at the scenery for the first 15 minutes. Finally after getting up my courage, I introduced myself to the girl sitting next to me. Her name was Sarah. I found out that she volunteers at the zoo and is super interested in wildlife. The two girls in front of me were Molly and Ashley. They all turned out to be super sweet. I think that if I can keep Ashley’s interest in the ministry then Molly will follow. John has to come since I need a boy and Ashley is his girl, so it should work out well. And Jackson, I believe, is Ashley’s younger brother.
He’s one of the middle schoolers that was helping out at the kids camp, but I finally connected him to Ashley. He started asking me all about parish nurses and getting confused. Lexi was cracking up at the two of us and told Jackson that she would explain it later, but I patiently got it down to the fact that if Jackson got a broken arm and was in the hospital, I would come and see him. Of course, later he figured out that I was leaving August 4th. He was like, “Wait I thought you were going to come see me. What if I get hurt in September?” I replied. “Jackson, if you end up in the hospital, you call me, and I’ll come see you.” Don't you wish I would tell you that? :) Sorry it only applies to really sweet middle schoolers.
I had them all laughing at the end. When we got back to the church, Geri said, Joveta isn’t here yet. What are you going to do?” I said,” Oh she’ll get here. I’ll wait out here” Geri was like… “Is that safe? What if a strange guy comes up to you?” I said, “I’ll do this HYAH” and karate kicked. Of course, Ashley had only seen the kick and she was like, "What are you guys talking about?" So I had to repeat the whole scenario and they all burst out laughing. :)
Wednesday night there were two incredible occurrences. First, I went on the porch to call my parents and discovered light streaming from the east. This would be a normal appearance… IF IT WAS MORNING. It hit me that the sun should be setting from the west, so I turned around and saw sun streaming from the west. Then I scratched my head and looked upward. INCREDIBLE. I saw sun streaming across the entire sky from west to east like a huge sunbow or something. I pulled Jo out to look and she said, “Lightning”. It was coming from the west. Then 30 minutes later, it was severe weather like you’ve never seen. Reports from the news warned us of baseball sized hail headed OUR WAY. Fortunately, (for roofs and cars) we only received quarter sized hail, but I was kind of hoping for golf ball sized.
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