My First Day Back

  I cannot believe it is already summer. It is crazy that it has been nine months since august. Now it is time for.... EFY ONCE AGAIN! Yay!!! I got rehired to do another fantastic year of EFY. For those of you who do not know, EFY stands for Especially for Youth. This is a church camp through BYU that helps teens gain knowledge and understanding of the gospel. It follows the standards and is known as a church camp for The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints. I love this camp so much and I am so excited I get another opportunity to work it. I am going to try really hard to blog and share my adventures throughout this summer because there are always some fun stories to be told.
  Today was Day One! This is the first session of the summer and I get to work it!! WOOHOO! This year is a little different when it comes to training. So for all returning counselors we had a three day training last week, and for new counselors they have a week long training and then they "shadow" a returning counselor. Pressure much?! So I have three shadows this week and they are great. I can already tell they are going to be great at this job. It is definitely a little scary knowing people are watching you, but it all works out.
  My girls are fantastic! I have 10 girls this week and I already love them. They are crazy, fun, super talented, and wonderful in every way! They are the older group which is always exciting to have. Lets get real just being a counselor to any age is always exciting. I am loving getting to know these girls. They have so much light and positive. And they put up with my rambling. Lets just say in meet your counselor I could not keep my thoughts straight. Luckily they love me, still got what I was saying, and just make fun of me about it now. I cannot wait to see what the rest of the week brings!
  My company is once again awesome. I am in a trio which means there are two girl counselor groups and one boy counselor group. Can't forget my amazing co-counselors who definitely know what to say. Love them too already. The other girls and boys are fantastic as well. It is so cool to see how there are these 35 kids who all are different in some way and yet come together and become friends. Our company name is "Remember the Name" which is pretty legit I must say.
   This day was great. Played lots of games with our kids. They already seem so comfortable with each other which is awesome because the faster they become comfortable, the more they will get out of this week. We made some amazing goals for the company for this week. I decided I am going to work really hard at reminding them of the goals and for me to work on these goals as well. I cannot wait to see what the rest of this week will bring. :) Its summer, I am working the best job, I love being with the kids, and I love my job! :)