Second Mountain Camping Trip 2012

This year us guys on staff had the awesome opportunity to go on two trips to the mountains with boys from the orphanages.  Doing this allowed us to take more kids than we would normally be able to.  We started our second trip fearing rain but it never came, praise God.

We didn't have any problems this time with directors or car problems, but there ended up being fewer boys than we thought there would be.  We learned a lot from the first trip so we were able to better organize things and so this trip went a lot more smoothly.

We even set up a nice little cooking shelter in between the two vans that stayed up with us.

We started out with a long hike to a huge waterfall.  It had rained a couple days before we got there so the water was flowing a lot more.  Here are Steven and I in our matching Patagonia sweatshirts which were kindly donated for this trip.

Here we are closer to the waterfall, we had a blast climbing up there and it was really spectacular.

We really enjoyed our times of worship and praise around the campfire.

And of course smores are always a big hit!

This time we went up in a canyon and climbed up some pretty tight crevasses, good thing we brought some good rope!

And of course we saw lots of nice waterfalls along the way.

We went into the cave again...

And I tried out some light writing, guess what it says.

Some of the boys and Bryce were brave enough to go in the freezing cold lake, they said it was refreshing but the rest of us just took their word for it.

I love taking closeup macro shots and I found quite a few opportunities...

With my favorite being this beautiful butterfly.  

We had a great time, and best of all the boys really listened and participated with what we had to say about God and how we can have a relationship with him.  We also shared more testimonies which the boys really enjoyed and we think connected with. The last day on the way home we had one last devotional and at the end we asked them if they wanted to accept Christ. Almost all of them did, praise God!  Now we just need to pray that God makes all of these seeds grow into full faith.  Please continue to pray for all of these boys and all of the others who will be coming to all of our camps.  Pray that they will be open to the gospel and that they will be transformed.  The hardest part is for them to put their faith into practice once they've gone home, so pray that Satan doesn't snatch away their new hope in Jesus.  Thanks for being such great prayer partners!