I've got 16 minutes left on my half hour of internet I purchased today, so lets see how this entry goes.  Thank you Nate for the reminder that there might be some people out there trying to live vicariously through my blog posts.  Life at the Park Cafe is great.  After working in Olympic National Park last summer, and working for Aramark, I realize now that the Park Cafe, all the people who run it, and everyone who comes to work at the cafe truly spoil someone's national park experience.  There are a few people working at the cafe this summer who worked at St. Mary Lodge, for Glacier Park Inc. last year, and they have said their experience at the cafe is much more positive than with GPI.  Emily and I led our first ACMNP services last weekend at the St. Mary Campground, where we had a strong show of support from fellow Park Cafe'ers.  By that I mean, the only people that came to our worship services were current or former Park Cafe'ers!  I talked about creation and different creation stories, inspired by a book called "In The Beginning" which tells stories of creation from many different tribes and ethnic groups from throughout history and around the world.  There are many stories that fit into a few categories, good vs. evil, earth diver creation stories, creation out of nothing, and a traveling creator placing things where they fit perfectly.  The amazing thing I picked up from these stories, was that they all had some piece that needed a major fix, such as the good vs. evil creation stories, where the good creator who had made everything in proportion to everything else, so there was a balance of life on the earth, had to fix the evil creators creation because the evil creator imitated the good creator, but made things bigger, and out of proportion, e.g. in one story, the evil creator made a giant frog that drank all the fresh water on the earth, and the good creator had to come over, slash the frog in half, and release all the fresh water so other things could live.  Long story short, the Genesis 1 creation story, allows for us to imagine how and why God created the universe in its entirety, not just pieces of it.  It also allows us to know that God created all of creation as the creator in the Blackfoot creation story, Na'pi (Old Man) created things, perfectly, and for their perfect use.  The only missing piece in the Genesis creation story, is that it requires us all to be as perfectly ourselves as we can.  If we are not, and if creation is not being what it is fully intended to be, then it will not be perfect. 
My internet time was happily interrupted by an ACMNP'er from 2011 in Glacier, Jessika Carlstrom just showed up in the store at the cafe!  So I'm going to go sit with her and her friends as she enjoys some delicious Park Cafe pie!  It appears as if we will have for 2 weeks in a row, former ACMNP'ers at the St. Mary service on Sunday! 
Also, I leave for Ohio one week from tomorrow.  I can't wait to spend a week at SportsCamp! 
And also, for next blog entry, I've got another bear story! 
Peace for now and always,
Love forever!

Hey all!  I've been at the Park Cafe since Monday, and it's been a great week!  I went on a little hike on Tuesday, and have worked Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, today, and I'm cooking again tomorrow morning.  The ACMNP services are going to begin on June 9.  MY ACMNP teammate got here today!
On my hike on Tuesday, a few of us were planning on heading towards Red Rock Falls, which is out of the Swiftcurrent area, and we began walking up the trail, and there is a bridge about 400-500 ft up the trail.  We saw two young guys standing on the other side of the bridge waving at us, and we couldn't figure out why, until we stepped on the bridge, and I looked down and saw a BIG nose sticking out from under the bridge.  There was a rather large black bear standing under the bridge, in the river, and he came out from under the bridge, as I was standing on the bridge.  We quickly walked backwards, a couple people pulled their bear spray, and he really didn't even care that we were there.  So we abandoned hiking that trail, and instead hiked up to Apikuni Falls, a short 1 mile hike, but it gains about 800 ft in elevation.  It was a good first hike to set out on here in Glacier.  I'm excited to have a full day off, and having earned enough in tips already to buy my park pass, I will do that, and go exploring a little more when I have a full day off.  As for now, I have a lot of laundry to do.  Laundry can wait a little bit though.  Last night I saw the most intense display of the Northern Lights I have seen in my life.  It was absolutely incredible.  There was a large group of us from the cafe who were sitting out in the cafe parking lot from about 11:30 to 1:30 just in awe at the display the Northern Lights were putting on.  They were moving, pulsating, and just lighting up the sky in a beautiful green!  I hope there are many more displays this summer, so I might get to see them from somewhere other than the parking lot! It really was pretty special though, getting to see the Northern Lights with so many people I live and work with this summer.  I'm excited to begin the duties of the ministry, and get to spend a few more months here at the Crown of the Continent, Glacier National Park!