Sister Brown & Sister Doran - watching the young women at Waterfront in the Canoe's
ALL of us at our Ward Presentation singing "Daughter of a King"
The first day, right before we went to Stake Flag, showing off our purple "Integrity" colors.
One of our crafts, making Tiara's out of beads and wire, attached to headbands.
The front of one of our cabins - castle with draw bridge and the crowns on the door with the names of who was in that cabin. We had two cabins, and they were exactly the same.
Our Ward Theme, based on the stake theme, Happily Ever After.
Another craft that we did during the week. Thank goodness for assistant leaders who helped with these.
All 14 girls at the Stake Flag one evening, wearing all the purple beanies that my mom made. They loved them and wore them everywhere.
We made these goblets for the night the bishopric came. We had a royal feast, and only used our hands for utensils.
Our Secret Sister Ward gave us this with some mints. We were all surprised to have such a great service. We gave them back a bag of starburst for the wonderful service they did for us.
We had a great week, with little bit of sprinkles of rain each day. It was warm and at night it was too warm, so we had to open the windows to cool it down. We had 14 girls and 5 leaders, for a total of 19 of us, the most we have taken to camp in the last 5 years. The first night, one of the first year young women got me up to tell me that she needed to use the bathroom. It was about 3 am in the morning, which I had hardly slept anyways, so I got up with her and she had the worst case of diarrhea. I felt so bad for her, because it was everywhere on her Pajamas, and it was dark and in the middle of the night. I had to wake up another leader to go and get our Stake Nurse, because she still was having stomach pains. We were up with her until the sun came up, and decided that we should just get ready for the day. Sister Doran took all the young women on a 5 mile hike up on the top of the glacier. They were gone for 3 hours, but it was worth it. We had a knighting ceremony at the beginning of camp on the first day, where we gave all the girls a word from the 13th article of Faith to have for the week and research and use. That was alot of fun for them. We also had "Queen for the hour" each day, were each girl wore the princesses crown and a banner that said "Daughter of a King." Then all of us said something nice about them. All the girls were able to have this spotlight done, and the girls loved it. We had two cabins, which has been different in the past, because we only had 13 or less of all of us, but with 19, we knew that we couldn't fit in one cabin. We used our scout trailer as the food/mess hall for all the coolers, etc. Sister Jensen was in charge of the food, and did an awesome job. She was so sweet and a wonderful person to get to know, even though they have been in the ward as long as we have. Each evening we had a bedtime story and the girls loved it, to get quiet for the evening and to use as for some good thoughts and dreams for the night. Thanks to Sister Leslie and Sister Hill from the Young Women leadership, for their help in getting all the camp stuff done and to help us at camp the whole week. We ended with the Bishopric coming and on Friday night to have Testimony Meeting. It was great to hear all the girls talk about how they had a great time and the spiritual experiences they have had. We came home today at 9 am. It is an hour and an half drive from Provo to Camp MIA Shalom in Fairview Canyon. Just enough to get to the mountains, but not that far to go and come home.
