Fellowship Weekend

The college kids and I planned a Fellowship Weekend (incorrectly named--should have been Service Weekend) for the youth group, and by "college kids and I" who I really mean is Ashley Wineinger.

I'm glad to still be involved with the youth group, because lo!  I am still a child.  Lockins?  Yes, please.  Using my age to snatch couch cushions from the boy's room to sleep on?  Added benefit!

So how much fun was the weekend?  Well, there was much baking of cookies, watching children, and dance parties in the kitchen (which was mostly me jumping around at people who either laughed at me or stared at me like they feared for my sanity....awesomely enough, Michael Baker was most likely to dance along).  We had a little worship service at 9:00, which was great even if the kids utterly ignored the youtube songs we chose.  Then Nathan spoke, which just made my heart squench, and yes I am revolutionizing the world and turning that into a verb.

The kids went outside for a snowball/mud fight, but I played Dominion with Scott, Anessa, Lindsay, and Nathan.  So much fun!  I don't even know how, because there's so little to actually do, and it's not loud and...it's just kind of addicting.  Then we played the dice game from PotC, which is even more randomly fun.

Finally at 2:00 we all went to bed.  Mostly.

In the morning we ate breakfast and played PotC dice (Nathan: Soooo...we have five seconds, want to play?) until teams were divvied up and we were off to visit Seasoned Saints.  Which, I'm sorry, but I think I would take far more offense at being labeled "Seasoned Saints" than "older members of our church."  Don't patronize me, youngsters! 

I was paired with Kayli, which was lovely, because we've never actually had a chance to talk, and I quite like her.  We visited three families, and it was all just really great.  We were lucky to have people who were not weirded out with "hello people I barely know--come sit in my living room!" and who were conversationally vibrant.  I actually really enjoyed the morning, and I think Kayli did too.

Then hanging out and disgusting details of childbirth (though this time from the male perspective, which was so much more with the hilarity), then lunch, then Viral Video Film School BECAUSE THAT NEVER STOPS BEING FUNNY, then home.  Then I slept for four hours, because I was beat.

Also, I finished memorizing Psalm 139!  I'm glad David got me into that, because it really is valuable to memorize Scripture and have it come to mind.  During worship last night, we sang some song about God being with us and shining on us, so I leaned over to David and said, "When I awake, I am still with You" and he was all, "I was just thinking that!"  How fun to talk Bible and it be about life.  Good times.