Girl's Camp!

Hello Everyone. Camp was a wonderful experience. It is different as a leader than as a youth. I got pretty worn out. The theme was, "There's no Place like Camp." It was all centered around the Wizard of Oz. We had four different classes that related the Gospel back to things that happened in the movie. For example, in the Dorothy class clips from the movie were shown and then discussed. Especially avoiding the "flying monkeys" of the world. For the Lion class we talked about people in church history and scriptural history who showed courage. On the last night, Sister Dianne Alphin from the Joplin Stake wrote a program. We followed the "yellow brick road," several long plastic yellow table clothes on the sidewalk, stopping at different charecters who talked about the Gospel, til we got to the "Emerald City" which actually was the amphitheatre where they had a slide show of pictures of all the Temples going with different versions of Somewhere Over the Rainbow playing in the back ground. Then, the "prophet of Oz," spoke on setting a goal toward going to the temple and bore his testimony. We also had a uplifting testimony meeting on Friday morning.

All in all it was a great week. I kept my pedometer on all week. I walked just under 50 miles. You would think I would have lost a lot of weight, but they fed us very well. One thing that the menu lacked was fresh fruit. I spoke to the Bishop's wife Friday morning to see if he was going home before he came out to the camp for the night program. I told her we were craving fresh fruit. She said he wasn't going home. I told her, oh well, we only have one more day. She called him at work and he brought out fresh strawberries, grapes, and oranges, all in ice water in a cooler. It was a great surprise. That was probably the best tasting orange I had ever eaten. It was fun to have him and his first counselor, Brother Tucker there for the evening. Bishop also gave a good devotional. I was so impressed all week with the girls from our ward. Everyone got along and was helpful and obedient to the rules and their leaders.

I hope I'll be able to go again, maybe when my girls are old enough.

Have a good weekend.

5 more days til school starts.

Jennifer