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My Best Friend Essay

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I wanted to take a moment and encourage all who are volunteering for Royal Family Kids Camp. It is wonderful to see individual's step-up to take a few days to change a life! A question the other day during training was what I wished I had known the first time I volunteered (which was only in June of this year!).My response to the query was, I wished I had known more about the expectations for each role I.e. Cousin, Aunt, and Uncle. Being a newbie was exciting, yet a bit intimidating. Not intimidating as in frightful, but intimidation similar to the first day of school nerves. Exciting, yet still nerve-wracking for the reason of not knowing what the day would hold! As a first-time cousin I did not know what to expect. Moreover, I was nervous about what the kids were going to be like; would they like me? Would I be able to anticipate their needs? What if I did something wrong? Would I up to snuff, capable? But, most of all, would I be successful in sharing God’s unfathomable love? A cousin’s role, in my opinion, is being your campers best friend. Let’s think for a moment; When we want to do something fun, who do we call? Our best friend. When we want to shoot the breeze, who do we call? When we need a shoulder to cry on, who do we call? Our best friend. When we need prayers who do we call first? When we want to hook up and shoot some hoops, who do we call? Our best friend. When you are having so much fun, and laughing so much you’re crying, who is it usually with? Yup, your best friend. THAT is the role of a cousin. YOU will be the campers closest friend for 4.5 days. You will not be their mother, or their father. You will not be their teacher, their psychiatrist, or their doctor. You will be the one that laughs with them, jokes around with them, plays with them, sings with them, and prays with them. You will be the one that opens their Bible and reads with them. Best friends don’t sit on the sidelines and watch, they are in the picture making memories WITH them. Accordingly, Aunts and Uncles play a key role in this picture too. Picture a swing set. See the swing? That is the cousin. Notice the chain? Those links are the Aunt and Uncles. Each link is important. Each link strengthens the swing.

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