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Today was a lot of fun. I did the journey day with the youth and we all had a blast. It started out with a little camp fire at the church. We had a fire going and we just sat there visiting while we waited for everyone to show up. Once everyone was there our first adventure was a long walk into the woods. That was a HUGE step for me today. I have not stepped foot into the woods for like 15 years. As a child I use to run through the woods just fine, but then as I got older I became afraid of the woods because of all the bugs. Well today that was the first event.. I was thinking oh great! then the youth pastor even gave me a chance to skip out on this particular event for the day by telling me I could process the paper work while they went on their trek through the woods if I wanted. but to my amazement I said,” I would like to go with you all” that shocked him lol Im so proud of myself lol I went on the walk with them and yeah there were bugs.. a lot of bugs.. lol But i kept telling myself.. they are just bugs i’ll be okay and instead of freaking out like i normally would i would just brush them off and i walked. YAY ME!! LOL seriously they may sound like a little thing to you, but if you only knew how HUGE of a step this was for me.
So then after the walk we all piled up in the two vans and headed over to the city park to play volleyball… another step for me.. not as big as the woods, but none the less a step.. i joined them all and played volleyball. Normally i would just stand on the sidelines and watch but today i didnt even hesitate and joined in. We had fun we played 4 games, the team i was on won YAY!.. not from any help of me LOL I think i touched the ball once LOL but still it was fun haha
after that we all piled back into the vans and we went to Carls Jr for ice cream, then we went to a river to eat our packed lunches. we then headed back to the church to let the youth go change into swim clothing and then we drive to another town to go to rock lake. There we made another camp fire. We did swimming and just hung out there for a while. after that we headed back to the church for some games out on the grass and then that was the end of the day. Thankfully the weather held out for us all day too.. this morning it look like it wanted to rain , but it didn’t it stayed cloudy but thankfully it was a warm day so it was actually really nice out.
So that was our first journey day of the summer. we have another one planned for next month and i hope i’m able to join them all on that one as well.

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