Coming to and End

Hey everyone! Hope you are all having fabulous summers! It's flying by for me, here in Florida. I only have two and a half weeks left! Things are going great here, but I'm ready to get back to South Carolina. I love, love GKTW and everything that has to do with it. But camp life is getting old, and as you can imagine, being with the same 18 people ALL the time, can get pretty hard too. Pray for us that we'll be able to stand strong in Christ against the Devil's attempts to tear us apart. God is doing great things though! I mentioned before that Leandra and I have started doing airport greets for GKTW. It is so fun to be the first people that they meet in Orlando and be able to help them through the airport. It's a great opportunity because the families we greet remember us when they see us later at the village. See, GKTW has hundreds of volunteers every day, so to all the other families, we're just another volunteer, even if we've become attached to the children. But, for the families we greet are always so excited to see us later in the week. We've really been able to build stronger relationships with the families since we've started doing airport greets.

A cool story from this past week:
Leandra and I were running the carousel on Sunday night, and a girl in a wheelchair came up with her parents to ride. We'll call her Allie. Allie was severely handicapped and unable to speak. (By the way, our carousel is the only wheelchair accessible one). We put her on the ride and strapped her in, and her mom started crying and saying, "Allie, you're riding by yourself! It's the first ride you've ever ridden by yourself. Oh, Allie!" She turned to us and thanked us a million times. It was so special to get to be a part of that memory with them, because you could tell how special it was. We later saw Allie and her family at Christmas (we have Christmas every Thursday) and got to talk to them again. They actually remembered us, probably because that memory at the carousel was so special to them. Then, we got to see them this morning (Friday) in the castle and show Allie her star on the ceiling. It was awesome, and I'm sad to see them leave on Sunday.

See you all soon!