Prayer request

For any of you who are praying people, please keep my friend Leslie in your prayers. She is the p.m. kitchen intern, but has spent the last two days in the hospital with what's not appendicitis, but two very painful cysts. We don't know yet if she is going to have to have surgery to have them removed, but there is that possibility.

She is in good spirits (that is, drugged beyond belief) buy wants dearly to return to camp. As an intern staff, we have been taking turns staying with her in the hospital. She arrived there Thurs. around 6 p.m. and waited in the e.r. until Friday morning. Corinne stayed with her that first night (and she didn't get any sleep). Max, Kyle, and I went to visit and got back to camp around 3:45 in the morning. Some of the other girls visited her yesterday. Max and I stayed over last night.

I asked Leslie how she was doing spirituality, and she said good. I didn't have any time to pry deeper, but do pray for the glory of God to shine through this experience.

Pray for patience for us; these doctors are slow and communicate poorly. It's very frustrating. I want her to be healed; pray for that too. Nevertheless, not our will be done, but Yours, O Lord.

This whole experience has been amazing. My brothers and sisters here are sacrificing their time to work (even free time) to spend with a sister we've known for less than a week. (Leslie came on Sunday.) I have never been a part of an organization that has manuevered so well through an experience like this. It's like we are water, taking the shape of whatever container we are in. Several of the property staff who live here yearround have commented on how they have never had an intern staff like ours. It's pretty amazing.

I'll keep you, the readers, updated.

P.S. We got our staff shirts and I think our nametags are in!