It hurts, it hurts!!!!

Well today I have just finished my first outing as a youth leader.  Boy things felt different as being one of the responsible people of the group.  So let me tell you a little about what happened.  We all got together at the church for dinner before we head off to the camground.  We had spaghetti with meatballs and garlic bread and salad.  This was different because I am not usually the one to prepare the meal and rying to get everyone together so we could eat.  Then we headed down to the site and first thing we did was set up our tents.  After I would usually go and do something fun like explore the area.  Nope I sat with the adults and talked about life in general.  We had to keep an eye out for the youth so when the time came we could go to the fireside.  Well we got there and soon after all of our boys left.  So we had to go round them up once again and watch them carefully to make sure that they behaved during the talk.  Well after we had our dessert and all the boys took off again.  We didn't care because it was not like there was stuff to do where we were.  So us adults talked more about life and jokes and missions.  Then when we went to bed we had to make sure that our boys were behaving and that they were going to bed soon. 
So the night was ok.  It has been awhile since I had to sleep on the hard ground and in a sleeping bag.  I think that I only woke up once during the night so that I could roll off of the sore spot.  So in the morning we had to get all the boys up and scoot them up to eat breakfast.  Some of them looked like they did not sleep much and unwilling to do much.  Which turned out to be true because when the service project started to get underway, none of our boys were there.  So we had to go round them up once again and get them over to the work area.  Once there, again, they dragged their feet to get a shovel and start digging post holes.  So us leaders had to do extra to get the job done.  I was doing okay for the first few hours.  Then it happened, a blister formed on my left hand.  So I could not do much with that hand (now remember I am digging post holes in, you guessed it, clay).  I had to take care now of the good hand.  Still that is very hard to do when they have not done that kind of work for nine months now.  Soon the right one formed a small blood blister.  To add to the discomfort, my hands ached from gripping the handle of the tool I was using.  Meanwhile all of the youth, boys and girls, where standing around this one hole and talking and watching.  After doing a few holes they disappeared and who knows what they did after.  So the leaders and a few primary kids finished the fence.
Lunch came and we found our youth sitting in the shade eating when we came up to the pavillion.  We ate and then went to the fun part of the day.  It is called the Eco-Challenge.  Basically groups of youth go around to different stations and do some sort of game.  It was pretty fun to see and help.  There was this orienteering cousre that went through some weeds and cactus and more than one person got poked, me included.  Those babies were hard to pull out too.
In the end all was fun but my feet, hands and leg got worked.  If it sounds like I am complaining, I'm not.  It feels good to have done all of that stuff.  I am just concerned about our youth these days.  Some of them to be on the lazy side of the scale and that concerns us leaders.  I am sure all of you know something about that feeling and responsibility.  So that is my tale.