Girl's Camp

Earlier this year I was called to be the Assistant Girl's Camp Director for my ward. Those of you that have no clue what that is or means, I will explain. In order for the LDS church to have all of the jobs done that needs to be done, they give out callings. Basically they are jobs that are given out to different people. Girl's Camp is fun camp held every year for the girls 12-18 years old to get to know one another and gain a better testimony of Jesus Christ. So anyway, I was called to assist the girl's camp director and we have worked really hard to plan the camp so it was a lot of fun for the girls. We lucked out this year because it was Stake camp, meaning a lot of wards went and we only had a few chunks of time that we had to plan out for the girls.

When I first got this calling, my first thought was hmmm, how am I going to get out of this. OH!! I'm pregnant!!! They won't let you go to camp if you are in the first our third trimester, but then I figured out that I would be 2 weeks away from my third trimester and totally clear to go. When I found that out, I decided to give it my all and have a positive attitude. I'll tell you what, having a positive attitude really does help. I was never really a fan of girl's camp when I was younger so I had to channel a whole lot of positivity to get through the planning.

Amy, the Camp Director, and I had a lot of things planned out. We had crafts to do, certification (things that the girl's needed to learn in order to pass to the next year in camp) planned out, games planned out, and even some activities that would hopefully help the girls with their testimonies. The theme of the entire camp was United and Strong. This was kind of a double theme, United and Strong in the Gospel, and then it could relate to sports too. Amy really wanted to incorporate the sports aspect a little bit more so she came up with a great baseball theme for our camp ground. We had a dug out where we all gathered together, the leaders tent was the Coaches Quarters, and then all of the girls got to name their own tents.

The stake was in charge of most of the activities, which was super nice. Some of the things that they had planned out was a service project, Sacred Grove time (we learned about Joseph Smith and then we were able to read the Book of Mormon and find out more of his account about the first vision), and a Faith Walk (we had 3 speakers come speak to us about different life events). Overall I thought that the stake did a great job with what they planned out. I was worried from my camp experiences, but they did a great job.

Camp was from Wednesday morning to Saturday morning. Wednesday around 4pm it decided to start down pouring. Luckily me and the other leaders that were up their thought about this and started to put up preventative measures BEFORE it rained and not during or after. Thursday and Friday were beautiful days, and Saturday it was super nice to go home.

Here are a bunch of pictures that I took.