Girl's Camp 2011

I'm back.

Actually, I got back last Saturday. I've just been procrastinating putting this post together. The point is, I'm back from Girl's Camp!

This year, our theme was Mission Possible. They gave each of the wards a mission calling to a different country. Ours was South Korea! The result of that was eating rice everyday and not being allowed to use forks, only chopsticks. It was so much fun though!

Our camp site.

I consider ourselves privileged to have this campsite. It is far away from all the other camps, so we can be as loud as we want! It's also bigger :)

And of course, none of this would have been possible without our wonderful leaders and bishop!

We decorated his hat.

His lovely wife.

I don't have pictures of all the leaders, but they are so awesome, they don't even need pictures! (Did that make sense? I don't know.) 

I also don't have pictures of all the girls, but they are awesome too!

Taylor

The Bishop's daughter, and one gorgeous girl. Her family considers me their adopted daughter, so I could say that she's my sister too.

Timmi!

 We are the only Laurels in our ward, so we were camp buddies! In this picture, she was conquering her fear of heights. She tried 7 times to get to the top, and she finally did it! She is the most positive person that I have ever met. Her motto is: Smile! :)

Melisha!

If you ever need someone to talk to when you can't sleep due freezing cold temperatures, go to her. She has an endless supply of subjects to talk about! She has some awesome stories about her country, Samoa. She's also very funny.

Sela!

Sela, Sela, Sela. She is so awesome. She's also a great canoe-er! Sela and I paddled around the lake for two hours! Which resulted in a mean farmers tan. She re-sprained her wrist while canoeing, and it was hurting her really bad, but she was so brave! We were also camp buddies. I am so glad that I got to know her, and I'm so excited that she's coming to the high school next year!

We did a lot of fun stuff at camp, but I'm going to summarize a lot of it. But one thing that I do have to tell you about is pretty monumental for me. I had a lot of time on my hands while all of the other girls were on their hikes, so I picked up a hula hoop that someone had gotten from their Secret Sister. 

And I started hula hooping.

For 1 hour and 32 seconds.

While hula hooping, I walked around camp, ate some food, sang songs, and even trimmed my nails. I don't think anybody is going to try and break my record.

Another thing on the fun list was zip lining!

That was one long zip line. Honestly, it wasn't scary at all. The only scary part was getting up on this rickety platform and stepping off into space. After that it was great!

When my parents came up to camp on Friday, they went on the zip line too! I have to admit, I was having a panic attack for them because I didn't know what they would think of it!

They're so cute.

Later that night we had our Stake Activity. I don't think any Stake Activity could top the one we had last year. That one was simply amazing. But this one came pretty close! They called it: A Walk With Christ. They had us carry two large stones in each hand to represent the burdens that we carry. We had to go through different obstacles, but with each obstacle, we had something to help us. That represented Christ helping us along the way.

This one was the one that I liked the best. Even though being blindfolded was pretty scary (I swear, they had us walk right along a cliff at one point.) There were people along the way encouraging you and sometimes guiding you were to go. At one point, we had to stop and wait for someone to come and help us along a rough part. The lady that came to help me immediately enveloped me in a huge hug and said that I probably didn't remember her, but she was the one that helped me into my harness for the zip line. I don't remember her name, but she knows my family somehow. Her hug was so warm and inviting, I didn't want to leave!

Each of the girls had to help each other onto the table until all the girls had gone over the table. This whole time we were still holding our stones.

Then we had to walk up hills and around tires with these things. It's harder than it looks! Holding the stones didn't really help.

This one was called: Lean on Prayer.  You had to lean on your partner while walking on a thin board. The two boards became farther and farther apart as you went along, so it made it harder. But if you really trusted your partner, you could make it all the way.

At the end, we all walked to a meadow and sang I Feel My Savior's Love with my mom accompanying on the guitar. Then we each went and laid our stones, or burdens, at Jesus's feet. It was really amazing and spiritual.

I had so much fun at Girl's Camp and I am so glad that I went! I certainly can't wait till next year :)

Next up, Youth Conference!

That doesn't happen till July, but I'm still excited for it!