Day Two: In Which We Arrive

Fathers Day: Once a year for many, but I wish I lived like it was every day for my heavenly Father.

There are very few things I enjoy doing more than worshipping my little heart out, so I was excited to stay for the service at the church in Franklin. It was a little different, but not in a bad way... Just different. I'm not used to people being so ready to put their hands in the air and put their everything into what they're singing. I love it. I love, love, love watching people be passionate. You experience them at their finest moment and become just as passionate as they are.

After some rockin' out and praying, the whole congregation was treated to free snow cones outside, and we were invited as well. Personally, I favored the orange and vanilla combo.

After a lunch of more sandwiches, we loaded up and moved out towards our destination. We arrived a little after six, and first things first, we took all our crap to our living quarters for the next week.

This is all I'll say about our rooms: I've lived in worse, so what we have is, somehow, a blessing. Miranda and I moved in with two other girls we knew fairly well, and I immediately unpacked nearly everything I brought. Clothes went in drawers, toiletries went by the mirror, and notebooks and crayons went in the desk. After the sleeping bag was rolled out, it was just about time for chapel.

When I was with Team Effort the last time, chapel was the highlight of my day. Hello Seattle (Remix) was bumping and the crowd was pumped for the amazing songs we did for worship. I was introduced to so many incredible artists that summer, it's crazy. And I loved afterwords with just our own people, where Jess pulled out the guitar and we continued to sing some of our favorites as well.

This time around is still awesome when we sing, but the mini sermons fall short of carrying weight to me. Funnily enough, these sermons and scriptures are a near perfect copy of the ones they used in Copperhill. More news of what we're being taught will come in later posts.

We headed back to the dorms after being given the schedule for the following day: 7:05 for breakfast, 8:00 leave for work site, 5:35 for dinner, 10:30 lights out. I went to bed, anxious to start the week.