Just Keep Swimming

"Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming swimming. What do we do? We swim, swim, swim...are you my conscience?" - Dory, Finding Nemo

I think Dory here just sums up my life right now. I don't really know what lay ahead, and I may not be comfortable with it, but I'm going to keep going anyway and trust in the Lord to guide me.

First off, I completed my spring training!! No, not for my baseball team. :P The first ever Semester Project! It has been a long, challenging week. My emotions about being here have been all along the scale of crying for 3 hours the night before I left and being so excited to be in Disney I couldn’t stand it. Luckily my emotions don’t dictate my decisions, because here I am sitting in my new apartment. My team and I consist of the 3 of us interns Kyle, Michelle, and I who are actually in the College Program here at Disney. The rest of the missional team consists of 2 fantastic young women, Adrienne, and Cate and our two directors Lindsey and Joshua, who also has a wife Rose and her 2 super cute kids, and of course the director of the whole team Kevin! It has been encouraging getting to know them and hearing and sharing our stories. It’s great the different ways the Lord has brought our team together.

I still have my hesitations and a lot of anxiety about being here, but I’m here and I’m not going anywhere for a few months. I will be working at the Grand Floridian.. Oooh ahhhh. For those of you who don’t know much about Disney, it is a resort here. Disney resorts are detailed and perfect, and the Grand Floridian is the most expensive of them all. Perfect doesn’t even work. It is all white, think a Mary Poppins theme. Very high class resort, often people get married there. It’s very different from where I worked last summer, but I think it will be a fun new experience.

I have 3 roommates, and sadly Michelle isn’t one of them. They’re very strict on rooming underage and overage students together. But the girls are great.

I don’t start work until Saturday, because I don’t have to go through much training. (: but then the madness of ministry and work begin.

Anyway that’s a small update on what life looks like for me right now. I’d appreciate prayers for my roommates and I, that we would all connect well. Also that I find time to rest in the weeks to come as life gets crazy.

Love from Disney,

Jamie

Jamie Vigen

8136 Chatham Manor Blvd. Apt #24301

Orlando FL 32821