Girls Camp

I serve in the Young Women's presidency in my ward so I had the amazing opportunity to go to girls camp at the end of July.

In this stake all the wards stay together.  It was different than how I grew up where all the girls would be mixed together and you had no idea who would be your tent mates.  It was nice for me because then I could be with all my young women.  We are the biggest ward in the stake.

Our ward girls were the Neverland fairies.  Every ward had to be a little cartoon group - like the Minions and the Trolls. So here some of the girls spread glitter (fairy dust) secretly on another ward's camp site.  There was a lot of laughing as they threw glitter in the air.

There were a couple of different service projects for the girls to do.  This one was making baby blankets.

Every morning and evening we gathered together for songs and devotionals.  It is hard to tell with this picture but it is all the bishops (who had come for testimony meeting one night) singing and performing the Jelly Fish song.

I learned how to play this nine square game.  I wasn't very good at it but the girls were easy on me.  I also got a chance to prove my lack of skill at volleyball one afternoon.  It was fun to have casual time with my young women. 

I went on a hike with my second year girls.  The first twenty minutes felt about straight up.  All my "hikes" on a treadmill at the gym did not really compare.  But the view was definitely more beautiful outside.  There were so many glorious trees to see.

I also went on a nature walk with my first year girls.  We saw this all white plant.  It is a plant with no chlorophyll, not a mushroom.  I thought it was cool looking. 

And we saw these trees called the Three Sisters.  They are three different kinds of trees but they all link up as they get taller, kind of hard to see.  They lean on each other and support each other. 

The theme for camp was to be Princess Warriors for Christ.  We had this great theme song called 'Strong' which I recommend everyone hear.  We talked a lot about putting on the armor of God as we go through our trials and how to be warriors in this world. I loved the theme and taught it to my girls for FHE when I got home.

I missed my family while I was gone, but I am grateful I went.  Girls Camp was as fun and as spiritual as I remembered from when I was a youth.