Girls camp was the last week in March. The theme was Christ's Avengers, defenders of Zion. I have not had time to sit down and write any thoughts because my little sister came to visit for a week the day I got back from camp. This years girls camp was a lot different than last years for a few reasons. First was Brittany Andersen was not their, they moved to Kansas for Residency and she was missed!! Second was the group of girls we had, all great girls and a few that I really fell in love with but on the whole more then half were very disrespectful. We would wake them up at 730 because flag ceremony was at 8 and at 755 a group of them would be walking down to the showers. When the rest of us were walking past the bathrooms for the flag ceremony I would walk in to tell them to come as they were, "come on guys we don't want to be late" two of them were already in the shower one was in her towel and the other getting undressed. I told the two that had not gotten in yet to please get dressed and the one in her towel looked at me and got in the shower anyway. By this time its a little past 8 and another young women walks in and wanted to wash her face. I said " Hey sweetie lets do that when we are done with the flag ceremony" I turned around to make sure the others were getting dressed and the one behind me decided she didn't care what I said and washed her face any way. I left and they trickled in when we were all done but I was shocked with the lack of respect they had for the leaders, especially when we gave them half an hour to get ready. I think the last reason is it was just so different from when I went to camp, I LOVED camp and could not wait to go every year. It was the most spiritual experience! They had so many activity's that really helped you to gain your own testimony. crafts, hikes beautiful songs around the camp fire, YCL's that you could look up too. The YCL's this year were so power hungry and loved feeling like they were big dogs on campus. They had a few crafts and we learned archery it was really fun but the over all feeling was different. I hope I don't sound like I am complaining cause I love my calling and working with these girls I just wish they had parents that were on board so we were all working as a team.
Three of them suck their thumbs!
Our ward was Iron man!!
The girls brought nerdy glasses that I thought were so funny so they snapped a few pictures!
We did Archery, Canoeing and on the last day they had a color war.
Stephany! she is only 14 but is so mature and very respectful, I think she is so wonderful.
Our stake
Camp was in the Ever Glades and it was very Beautiful!!
Kayah another little sweetie! Our newest Beehive
These are three of the ten girls that were baptized in the last month.
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