So it's been an interesting couple of days at the office. For one, I had a fantastic meeting with my support group yesterday. They were hand-picked from the congregation to love and support me through my time here at WUMC. We had dinner at one of the couple's homes and had a lovely dinner where everyone shared their stories with me so I knew them better and I shared my life and my call. One thing I love about the Calling 21 program and the church that I'm in is that they truly want to see me succeed and be a part of my faith development and my call to ministry. I hope beyond hope that my fellow interns are having the same experience because it is an unparallelled feeling.

After the meeting, I went back to the church to get my stuff before going back to my host family for the evening, I ran into this girl (I think she said she was in 4th grade) in the hallway. She looked at me with what looked like awe and said "are you the new girl?" I of course said yes and talked with her for a little bit. She's going to be in VBS so I'll see her next week during music. She was so excited when she heard she was going to see me again. I love being that kind of influence or role-model for kids. It was so cool to be so cool in her eyes. I hope to have that with other people I meet here and find some people who have that effect on me.

Finally, my last big thing that I've done in the past couple of days is do a music session down in the Respite Care Center. Respite is a day program for adults with disabilities that is run out of the church. Right now, most of the clients have some form of Dementia. I've already visited but this was the first time I brought all of my music stuff with me. It was so much fun. It was just like being back in my practicum and I was totally at home doing what I love to do. Since one of the clients brought in her doll collection to share with everyone who was there, I based my session around dolls and favorite things. I thought it went rather well and they participated really well. I'm really looking forward to doing more music down in Respite.

Tomorrow, at around 7am, I will be on my way to Roanoke for the Virginia United Methodist Annual Conference. I can't wait to see my fellow interns and friends and experience conference.

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