I am back from a week at Girl's Camp. I survived!!! Maybe barely, but I did it!
Our theme for the camp was "Got Treasure?" It goes along with the scripture from Matt 6:19-21 "...For where you're treasure is, there will your heart be also.."
Camp went really well. I am so pleased with how great it was. The weather really cooperated, raining the day we drove up, but stopping in time for us to unload and set up. The cloud cover helped to cool us off so we were only in the 80's (30 degrees lower than in our valley of the sun!)
We tried to focus on camping certification, spiritual messages and lots of fun firesides. The girls were all engaged and excited. I think our worst discipline was trying to get them to wear tennis shoes instead of flip-flops. Our first year girl swears she almost caught a snipe, I got to show off my one break-dancing move, we all ate enough candy to skip Halloween this year and we stayed up way too late playing the traditional games of Mafia and Murder in the Dark.
There were several workshops with lessons on our real "treasures" Self-esteem, Friendships, Testimony, and others. The Stake President gave a morningside on being healed by Christ that was very moving. The best part was the last night we had a Testimony meeting, it was just so nice to hear the girls stand up and say how much they held felt the Spirit there, and loved being there. Our hard work as leaders wasn't in vain.
4 comments:
Yay! I'm glad you had a good week and that it all went well. So much planning and effort goes into camp!
I'm doing Girl's Camp next week! I'm nervous and excited all at the same time!
Sounds like camp was a success. That was really nice of the weather to cooperate and cool off a bit for you!
Oh, the snipe hunts. :) Glad to hear it was fun. I know how hard the leaders work and it always seems like it's worth it. Great theme!
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