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This weekend was well...interesting to say the least. I went up to the mountains with my youth group and it was awesome! In one really long run on sentence we...had snowball fights, made snow angels, hung out in the sleat, rain, hail, snow, got lost on the way to the cabin (in the rain, with our luggage at midnight), watched CP try to buy Brian diapers but the lady would not sell them becuase Brian was not the real kid, saw the guy from 7th Heaven. took pictures with the "little toilest", stole the guys mask, decorated the mask with pink hears and glitter, played with the studded animals in the gift shop, celebrated Jenny's birthday, met new people, taught Jordan how to blowdry her hair, spent an hour and a half drying our clothes, singing Karaoke, and almost getting frostbite/hypothermia.
But, I think that the most interesting part about the was what I learned. Going into this annual retreat, I always seem to think that I will come out of it a better person becuase of what the speaker taught me. But, this year, I came out of it a much better person because of what a 16 year old ex-convict taught me. I did not go looking to learn something from him, he actually found me when he chucked a snowball at me. He made some sort of mistake in his past and that landed him and his younger brother in Juvi. I did not find this fact out until after the snowball fight and I was shocked to learn that. To me he seemed like a perfectly nice guy, I could never imagine him doing something illegal. But, he did and he was recently released for probabation. I am not sure why, but he told me his ENTIRE life story! It seemed to scare almost everyone else in my youth group, but it did not seem to terrify me as much as it did the others. He made me realize that everyone really does make mistakes and that just because someone messes up, that does not necessarily make them a terrible person.
But, I think that the most interesting part about the was what I learned. Going into this annual retreat, I always seem to think that I will come out of it a better person becuase of what the speaker taught me. But, this year, I came out of it a much better person because of what a 16 year old ex-convict taught me. I did not go looking to learn something from him, he actually found me when he chucked a snowball at me. He made some sort of mistake in his past and that landed him and his younger brother in Juvi. I did not find this fact out until after the snowball fight and I was shocked to learn that. To me he seemed like a perfectly nice guy, I could never imagine him doing something illegal. But, he did and he was recently released for probabation. I am not sure why, but he told me his ENTIRE life story! It seemed to scare almost everyone else in my youth group, but it did not seem to terrify me as much as it did the others. He made me realize that everyone really does make mistakes and that just because someone messes up, that does not necessarily make them a terrible person.