After about a month and a half in California, I went to good ol Buena Vista, VA (pronounced Bew-na Vista). It was a VERY small town. The closest Walmart was 20 minutes and 3 highways away. McDonalds was closer, but still 10 minutes away. I was a health counselor at a church camp called Especially for Youth, of EFY. 5 weeks in Virginia only required 3 trips with camp participants to the ER (one kidney stone, a diabetic who neglected to inform us he ran out of insulin, therefore having a blood sugar in the 600's-it's supposed to be between 80 and 120ish, and a swine flu pt.) I desperately tried to convince the nurse (who was the only nurse in the whole 12 bed ER, keep in mind) to let me start IV’s to “help her out”, but she didn’t give in. We had weekends off, so we went exploring. The first weekend, we went and saw the movie "Up". I highly recommend it. It was so much fun. We practically bought out the small theater with most of the counselors all going to the same showing. So much fun. I got to go to Washington DC for the 4th of July, which was pretty cool, we slept one weekend away, and we visited the Raleigh, NC temple on another weekend. It was in my first week in Buena Vista that I actually received my mission call packet for Washington. I got to open it in front of all the youth. I got a standing ovation! I have video of it, but my camera was stupid and right now, I am trying to figure out how to access the audio. Once I figure that out, it will be posted. Overall, VA was very pretty and we lucked out with the weather, no TOO many really hot days.
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