Charlie, Three Step, and Staffers... What a Summer

Reality.
This is a hard job.
We are about finished with week three and I am beat. God has done so much for me this summer and I realized today (again for like the twentieth time) that He put me here to serve him. It is incredible how much God has done.
Volunteers are great and they really seem to be enjoying their week here. It's hard for me to lead them and not jump in there and help do the work myself.
I realized I needed to take a different view on what I am doing here. Not only am I here to help people who are living in poverty, but I need to facilitate a week where volunteers can truly have an experience with God.
It's difficult because the way I worship and lead at home is not the way that is known here.
I am so excited about God and my joy is hard to contain. I am going to try and lead the worship like I do back home for my volunteers on  Friday and see how they take to it.
While on the subject of volunteers I just need to say that the willingness of volunteers to do work is something that continually amazes me. I feel like if I told them to build a wall 12' high and then take it down move it 2" to the left and then rebuild it, they would. I appreciate them so much because I can only provide the opportunity for them to do the work. I cannot do the work myself and they are out there everyday doing the things I don't really want to do.
My day off is tomorrow. WOOT!!
I cannot wait for this day. There is a habitat store down the road from us and they are selling really cheap golf clubs and I am going to go to the driving range tomorrow!!!!
I am so excited.
Something I realized this last weekend though is that it is going to be so hard to say goodbye to all of my friends here. They are incredible. My staff has bonded so well. We laugh so much and I think we work very well together.
But furthermore, my staffers who aren't in my county. I am going to miss them. I cannot believe the summer is almost half over. Incredible.

Absolutely incredible.

I do still need prayer however. My job literally starts from at the latest seven AM and ends around 1ish AM every morning. I have very little time for myself, and even less time for God and this is hard. I am still struggling to find a balance between what I am doing and what I can do to be closer to God. I cannot just have one devo every other week. This is a huge prayer request for me.

Thank you everyone back home whom I really, really miss. Come visit me!!!!