So if you guys go back through my archives you’ll notice that last summer I went to work at the Word of Life Ranch. I had applied with the intentions of working on their “tech” team. But soon found out that you had to be 16 in order to work tech. Which was a problem because at the time I was only 15. After a couple months of waiting to hear if I even got accepted, I got a call notifying me I could work in the dishroom. I wasn’t very excited about washing dishes all summer, but I decided it would be a good experience and went anyways. After getting there, meeting my cabin mates and supervisors, I was glad I went. I ended up hating washing dishes, but it was worth it because I got to do so many other fun things.All right fast forward to the end of the summer. I ended up applying to go the next summer (this years) with the hopes that I would get accepted to work tech. After waiting almost 6 months I got an email asking if I still wanted to have them process my application. I emailed them back telling them I had changed my mind and didn’t want to work at WOL this year. But after thinking about it some more, praying, and getting a good nights sleep I emailed them AGAIN saying that I changed my mind AGAIN and would like to come work for the summer.Fast forward to March 31 2010. I received another email, this time telling me I got accepted to work tech this year. I was so excited! I’ll finally be doing the job I’ve been wanted to do for almost 2 years.As of today its only 54 days till I leave for my first year of Word of Life STC on the island. I can’t wait to see what God’s got planned for me this summer. I’m also hoping I might be able to “chronicle” my summer and make my videos into a kind of video blog that I’ll post when I get back.Moral of the story, don’t be afraid to go outside of your comfort zone and keep on trying no matter how young or inexperienced you think you are.

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