Happy Birthday to our beautiful
daughter-in-law Tricia!
Let Your Light
daughter-in-law Tricia!
Let Your Light
So Shine Before Men, That
They May See Your
Good Works, And Glorify
Your Father
Which Is In Heaven.
-Matthew 5:16
The theme for this year's camp is "See the Light, He is the Light." Each day there is a morning devotional and the YCL's handed out card with quotations or scriptures about light. The above one was today's handout. The girls could clip these on a necklace they were given with a clip on it. I loved this aspect of camp.
Everyone was just finishing up breakfast when I arrived back at camp. These was an unfortunate incident with a mouse. One of the stake leaders, Linda Pearce, squished the mouse with her foot which was very upsetting to many girls including some of ours, and our assistant camp director Amy Reynolds. Our girls were assigned to clean the eating area after breakfast.
Hope sweeping and Kelly trying to get out of the picture.
Kyah was a good worker.
Next the girls broke up into groups for certification classes. Amy, Diana, and I attended Julie's class on clouds and trees and vegetation. Julie also taught compassing and water purification. She is really an asset at camp. She was also the hike leader for the stake as well as our ward camp director. She works for the forest service and loves the outdoors so she is a great resource person.
I especially loved the tree boring class where she bored into the tree to count the rings to determine the age of the tree. The girls loved it too.
Julie counting the rings of the tree she bored.
Amy, Diana and I had to leave class a little early for kitchen duty. The cooks, Sister Crandell and Sister Jackson had left on a hike and were late getting back. Our job was to cook the noodles for the macaroni and cheese but we couldn't find them. We told Sister Crookston, a counselor in the YW's stake presidency and finally after about ten minutes she found them in a box hidden away under the counter. We already had several large pots boiling water on the stove.
Diana stiffing the pot.
At one point while adding the noodles to the water I spilled noodles all over the floor. Also, the pilot light had gone out on the oven and there were several people trying to light the pilot so we could cook the garlic bread but no one was successful. Somehow we managed to get those noodles cooked and our kitchen leaders made it back from hike and lunch for 150 people was brought about. We had macaroni and cheese, ham, salad, bread, and fresh fruit. Sister Crandell was so grateful that we had started without her.
Back in our camp Julie and some of the other girls took Hope's stuffed bear and hung him from a tree. We had a memorial service for Teddy and Jordyn even played taps on the harmonica.
Teddy handing from the tree.
Hope was a good sport.
Jordyn playing taps and Julie
bowing her head.
Alice during journal and scripture study.
Heaven
Amy, Kilee, and Diana taking a break.
Enjoying some down time.
LeeAnn painting Kelly's nails.
We were assigned to help with dinner. I was proud of how most of our girls responded and came to help. Dinner was green chili chicken burros that were absolutely delicious. It was bishop's night but since our bishop is working out of town Brother Wilhelm and Sandra came. They had dinner with us and then afterwards we gathered at camp for our testimony meeting. Afterward Sister Wilhelm handed out cookies. It was a nice evening. I was tired again when I went home. I was surprised to find James had come home so I was not alone.
Earlier in the day James attended Aaron and Kari's sealing. Gail and all of his kids were there and so were Darrel, Trina, and Jared.
