WYRD

I found a moment to myself so I thought I would post an update on what is going on up here in the mountains for WYRD, our churches youth retreat in Sonora.

It has been a blast so far. The first day we got here was Friday about 7:00 pm. We ate dinner (little Caesars pizza and homemade pot pie) and then we sat around playing games and goofing off till about 3:30 in the morning. IT IS FREEZING UP HERE!!! I guess I should be used to the cold from all my years in Paradise, but it was a wake up call to come back up here to below freezing. We got up today about 9:00. Some of the young people couldn't come up yesterday because they went to the REALITY Youth Conference in San Jose, but they arrived today about 2:00. There are 19 young people here. We ate breakfast and had our devotions. The first speaker today was Pastor Michael Hanks from Ceres, CA. He did an incredible job in teaching about having passion for what we believe in. After devotions and prayer this morning, we got in our cars and drove to the snow at elevation 6,889 ft (30 minutes away). It was so cool. I was getting kind of worried because the snow on the road was pretty much plowed, but the higher we got up, the more snow there was and it started to get a little slippery. But nevertheless, we reached the snow park and immediately went into an all out snowball war!

After about an hour in the snow, everybody decided they were freezing and we got back into the cars and drove off back towards the cabin. When we got back, the other young people were there and Doyle Champlain from our church led us in another devotion which was incredible. He talked about not letting other people affect you in a bad way. Things take time. When David was anointed by Samuel to be kind, he wasn't immediately on the throne. It was a process that took place in order to get him to the final part of the plan. During this process, he had to kill some things in his life to gain confidence. After this, we ate one more time. Pork burritos and pot pie once again. Delicious. Now we are all sitting around playing games. I will update you later and give more pics when I have more time and am not on dialup. Right now I hear another burrito calling.