So Since I have last written (as I am getting worse at keeping up with this...sorry!) I have moved to South Dakota for the summer to live in a Convent to be an intern in the Vocation office to help with 3 different youth camps. One of them is for high schoolers, it's 3 days (June 14-16) and I am planning and directing that whole camp..That's Live Out Loud. The next one is a Hispanic Camp, L.I.V.E., and it is June 27-July 1. My role in that camp is a lot actually..I am in a small group there, putting together a video by that Friday of the camp (so no sleep for me!), doing a lot of pre-camp planning such as prayer services, organizing supplies, and sort of being a liaison between the Convent team that will be helping and the team in Nebraska that is planning most of it. The last camp is the Storm Mountain Leadership Camp in the Black Hills (July 25-29) and my role is very small in this camp pretty much. I am just going to be a counselor in a small group, which is a big task actually, but small compared to the other camps. I have a few things to plan for that but nothing major, and I have to take supplies to camp since they are all stored where I am staying. So that is my internship pretty much. As I said before, I am living in the convent, so I have a little room...very little..smaller than my dorm room, with a desk, closet thing, dresser, and a tall shelf thingy, tv, bed, and a rocking chair :) It's a really nice room though..and it has a great view of the prairie I think it's called and the starry nights are beautiful. I have this tree outside my window and the little flower blossoms fall off all of the time!
Enough about the actual internship...I celebrated my birthday here! My Golden Birthday--I turned 20! I had an exciting week for my birthday. I ended up in Nebraska/Iowa for the days leading up to my birthday. I went into this awesome Christmas shop in the Old Market in Omaha, NE and I had meetings on the 19th, but that night I went out to eat with two of the Sisters and we ate A LOT! Wings, Queso, Pizza, Fries...then DESSERT which was hot cookies with chocolate ice cream on top! (SO GOOD!) Friday, my birthday actually, I met Rosa (who is in the process of becoming a Sister) in Sioux Falls in South Dakota at Applebees and ate some more..queso and dessert shooter! Then I got back to Aberdeen and some of the Sisters met me at Culvers where I had Chocolate Custard and Fries....
Soo to say the least..it was a birthday full of food...and that's not even the end.. On Sunday, the Prairie House, which is where a few of the Sisters live, invited me over for dinner where we had hamburgers, chips, potato salad, apples and caramel, and then ice cream sundaes! I think it was a pretty fantabulous birthday. I also celebrated in Florida before I left there with some sisters and friends. We went bowling and just hung out and it was amazing <3
Other than those two things, I am just trying to figure out things here and with NET. I am leaving for NET on August 25th! I finally bought my plane ticket today! I have been praying a lot this summer about NET, for the financial donors, for the other NET missionaries, and for the strength to actually do this mission. It is going to be a change for sure, this summer is pretty good and they are long days sometimes, but nothing like NET I am sure. I have so much prayer support and support from friends, family and sorority sisters that I feel very confident about going after I continue to pray about where I am supposed to be going. I have been sending out a lot of letters asking for people to financially support my mission by joining the Partnership Program and praying for myself and the other missionaries, as well as the NET program. If you haven't gotten a letter, email me your address and I will be sure to get a letter out to you, otherwise you can go to NET's website (click here) to learn more about NET and their mission and to support my mission financially. If you choose to donate online, make sure you mark Team Member and write my name 'Erica Jean Boehm' so it goes toward my mission directly :) All of your support is greatly appreciated!
I will try to keep you all updated more often about my South Dakota adventures, in the mean time, please prayer for the development of these camps and that the Holy Spirit will really take over with them especially the Live Out Loud Camp which is coming up very soon and we started from scratch to plan!
God Bless,
Erica Jean Boehm
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