Girls Camp 2010

Last week was the 4th year in a row that Sam and I were able to attend Girls Camp for their Thursday night meeting.

Here is last year's post, which also links to the previous two years experiences.

Every year has been a blast, and this year was no exception!

The theme for our ward was "Good Works", which is associated with the color yellow. In the past, our ward has used the color to come up with a Disney mascot. The first year we were blue (Cinderella), the second year red (Mulan), third year orange (Tigger from Winnie the Pooh). This year, our Young Women leaders and the camp director decided to change things up a bit. For their mascot, they chose to be the Yellow M&M!


It worked out great! If you go to the M&M website, you can design your own M&M character. We all designed our character months ago. The camp director used these characters to decorate camp with and even made necklaces with our character on them. It was awesome!

Sam, I'm dressed like an M&M, I don't actually taste like one!


The overall theme for Girls Camp this year was "Virtue". 4 months before Girls Camp the Stake YW presidency challenged all of the young women in the Stake to read the Book of Mormon before they went to camp. This challenge was extended to the bishoprics. Our camp director extended that challenge to the bishopric wives as well. So we had the great experience of reading the Book of Mormon before we went up on Thursday night. In true Sam fashion, Sam finished Thursday morning. :)

The Thursday night fireside was based around reading the Book of Mormon and Virtue. It was very well put together and lots of people were touched by the messages being delivered. Our Stake Presidency shared a message with the group....via a rap. I gotta tell you, these fellows aren't known for being big goof offs....but they rapped a song that was so catchy I still can't get the tune out of my head! Of course, the girls were screaming like crazy because they couldn't believe their Stake Presidency would do such a thing. One of the Young Women advisors of our ward, who is new to the area, said "I don't know our Stake Presidency that well, but judging by everybody's reaction, this was something out of character for them to do. That is such a testimony of what these men will do to reach out to our young women, and help them understand how important virtue really is." I couldn't have said it better!





Here's most of our girls...a few had run to stand in line at the bathrooms. :)


Our fearless leaders! I'm telling you, our ward always gets the cream of the crop to be our young women leaders. It's just the way it should be!
Left to right: Mindy, Jamie, Natalie, Heather, and Holly


Jazz hands!


Here's Sam's M&M character. Everybody thought it looked JUST LIKE SAM!


Our ward always does a great job at making the bishopric feel welcome for Thursday night. It's something I sincerely look forward to attending each year! Testimony meeting was great, the food was delicious, and the laughter was boisterous! Another successful Girls Camp is behind us. What's next? Let's see.....oh yeah, Cameron fell off a boardwalk into Silver Lake the other day....more on that later!