Girls Camp - June 23-25 2010

Girl's Camp was so AMAZING!! I really, really love these girls! We all got up bright and early Wednesday morning and met at the church so we could all head up to the cabin. The girls were tired and cold, but ready to go! We had them all line up and count off so it would help us keep track of them for the next couple of days. Here they are, all bright and sunshiny and ready to go!

As soon as we arrived at the cabin, the girls headed straight for the swings and they were on them as much as they possibly could! Cheap entertainment.....ain't it great!

We played a few games and then we made some lunch. We had deep fried pizza bombs, so I made the girls chop up onions, peppers, ham, olives and all the yummy stuff that is so good on pizza. The onions were so good that they were making anyone around tear up!
After lunch we started handing out camp shirts and journals. We had tickets to go to Mack's Inn playhouse and have dinner and see a play, so the girls decided to start doing each others hair in all sorts of wacky ways.......
It then spilled over into the leaders! We are all up for having a good time and so we all had wild and crazy hair and wore our camp shirts to the play.
We had some really fun, BIG hair! It was so much fun. The girls loved that all of the leaders were willing to be fun and crazy with them and we enjoyed it just as much! There was another girls camp group there at the play and we kept hearing comments from them about how cool and fun we were because of our hair styles. It was great!
The play was a spoof of Pirates of the Caribbean. It was SO funny! We all enjoyed it so much! If you ever get a chance to go up there, do it! They are really talented people and do an amazing job.
The next day was Hike Day! Brother Sweeney took us to find a GeoCache that was near by. That was lots of fun. The girls really thought that it was really cool. You can find out more about it here.
We hiked for a couple of miles up the mountian and stopped for lunch. There was a lot of complaining about how much farther we had to go......Really?! We had just started! Plus, it was kinda hard for me, because both of my knees had swollen up Tuesday night/Wednesday morning and I could barley move them. It was really hard....they were about double the size they should have been. I spent a lot of time putting heat and ice on them. I'm glad I was able to go on the hike with them. We were worried about them because we knew that in a month we were doing a pioneer handcart trek and would be walking a LOT more than this. But we all survived! After we made it back to camp the Bishopric came and made dinner for us, which was wonderful. Of course, just about any dinner that someone else makes for you is wonderful!

We then set up for our spiritual night. We blindfolded the girls one at a time and each had a guide lead them to the iron rod. They met up with some heroes from the Book of Mormon and had a visit from Jesus reminding them to be strong and listen to the Still Small voice to help guide them through all the tough times in their lives. It really touched each of the girls. We then proceeded to have an amazing Testimony meeting where every single girl stood up and bore her testimony. It didn't matter if they were part of their class presidency or inactive, every single one of those amazing Young Women stood up and let us know what was in their hearts. I felt so privledged to be a part of that experience.
That night nobody went to bed before 2 am, so we slept in and took our time finishing with everything. All of the years took turns doing a skit that came out of the scriptures. Sierra and Jaci did a re-enactment of Joseph Smith finding and translating the Gold plates.
The 2nd years did David and Goliatha.
The 3rd years with the help of our YCL, did Nephi and his brothers retrieving the Brass plates from Laban.
Then our only 4th year had the help of our awsome Priesthood leaders and they re-enacted the story of Lib and Shez and Coriantum in the book of Ether.
Here are the very talented ladies who are our camp leaders and planned everything for us! Thank you Holly and April!
We leaders also did a skit before we all packed up and got ready to go....we re-enacted girls camp from beginning to end....it was hillarious! We all had such a good time and really got to know the girls on a deeper, personal level. I hope to have many more, equally gratifying experiences with all of these wonderful ladies and Young Women. There was so much more that happened, but these are definitely the highlights for everyone.
MMMMWWWWAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!! We loved every minute!