Kaleo Ministry

This weekend I participated as a counselor in the senior retreat. Coming into the weekend I was a little freak out just cause my last counseling experience was with juniors. However it turned out to be a really awesome weekend.

All my guys believed in God so that was awesome. We had some good discussion on the first night getting to know each other a little bit. Two guys really liked soccer the other two were into snowboarding and skiing, while this other guy wasn't really too sure,"maybe skiing" he thought. Anyways later they got into busting some pretty funny jokes but it was getting a little out of hand. Sometimes I find it hard to keep a group under control,"lets raise the bar" they would say. Well the second night became even worse they were up until 2:30 or 3:00 am just passing off the jokes, some of them were pretty hilarious, but I knew somewhere inside I should be telling these guys to be more careful about what they say. It is hard though because I want them to have a good time, and they are laughing and I think laughing is a great thing but I also new the things we were laughing about was not right.

So the next day I tried my best and with the prayer of strength from God to help me tell these guys how we went wrong last night and how we needed to be on guard with our hearts about good and evil. It is so crazy when you are around camp and everyone is a Christian here and we all seem to keep our mouths pretty clean, then all the sudden you run into something like this and your just not quite as used to anymore. I have been here before I know what it is like to try and be a good example for these guys but to try rebuke them and to know how God wants me to go about doing it, that is the hard part.

So I don't know how much my talk with them truly did effect them? It was weird talking to them and I look around and they were all so concentrated on me. It gets me all nervous cause I know they are actually listening. Then I start thinking to myself "oh boy Arlan better not screw up now" or "do you really know what your talking about?"

Overall looking back on the whole thing it was really a lot of fun, it was cool getting to know each one of them. It would be really cool to know or see these guys become stronger in there faith so that is my prayer for them.