The summer is officially over, so I guess it's time to write another wrap-up post. My summer was defined by relationships, so I thought it would be cool to tell you guys about some of the people that played a big role in my summer experience.
First, my project group leader, Jason, was one of the first people I met this summer and we quickly became pretty good friends. Jason is from Mizzou, but we had never really had much interaction before. He was also in my life group, the small group that I lead all summer, so we really bonded through shared experience. Getting to share my life with Jason and the other two guys in the group really helped us to grow close. I feel like those guys know almost everything about my life, and it was cool to be able to be vulnerable with those men. Jason and I often met together and discussed how we could more effectively lead the project and life groups, and I really enjoyed bouncing ideas off of each other, and then being able to see the effects of that later that week. Leading with Jason was an awesome experience, and I can't wait to work with him on campus back at Mizzou.
Next, I really enjoyed my experience in the Tuesday night worship band along with the leader Stephen. Stephen is a dude from Texas A&M, and A&M's music is very different from our style at Mizzou. Since it was Mizzou staff guys running the music at LT, Stephen had some adjustments to make, and I think we kind of bonded through me helping him through the adaption. Stephen is an amazingly strong dude, that has an amazing faith that he wears on his sleeve, which was extremely encouraging but also a big adjustment. By the end of the summer, he became one of the guys I knew I could depend on. Weirdly enough, one of my toughest parts of the summer was near the end, and Stephen helped me through it. I love that dude a lot, and I can't wait to visit him down in Texas this year.
And finally, this summer I was able to reconnect with one of my best friends from high school, a girl named Molly. Molly moved to Denver before my senior year of high school, but before that we were very close. Honestly, other than Jesus and my parents, Molly might be the person with the biggest part in my story up to this point. She's an awesome girl that I care about a lot, but since she moved we have been very inconsistent with keeping in contact. I was able to go down to Denver several times during the summer, and catching up with her was awesome. She has a one-year old son now, and he's probably the coolest kid ever. I can't even explain how much I enjoyed getting to hang out with those two this summer. Molly is an awesome mother, and getting to see that firsthand was extremely encouraging. Plus, we got to take Hudson to his first and second baseball games of his life, and at the second he got to witness the World Series Champion St. Louis Cardinals beat the Rockies, and that's always fun.
Now these three people are just the relationships that really stick out from this summer, but they're not the only ones that were important. Clif, Eli, Steven, Josie, Michelle, Ben, Merle, Andrew, Chris, Reyn, Michelle, Kirstin, Aimee, Margaret, Ami, Josh, and all the other people I forgot to mention, you guys all played a huge role in my summer. In fact, everyone at LT played at least a part in changing my life, hopefully for the better.
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