Picture This: Girls Camp

Monday, July 23, 2012

Girls Camp

Where to begin? This year girls camp was a lesson in learning to roll with the changes, and roll we did.

On June 23 our Beehive advisors husband, was struck by a drunk driver and killed instantly. He left behind his wife, Debbie, and a 7-year old daughter and 5-year old son, who has autism. The ward, and especially the Young Women, were stunned and many tears fell. We learned early on Monday, that the funeral was scheduled for Wednesday at 10am, and we were scheduled to leave for camp at 10:30am that same day. Plans were quickly rearranged and we rescheduled to leave at 4:00pm on Wednesday so that we could support our friend and leader by attending the funeral. Later on Monday, we found out that fires had blocked the roads to the cabin we were supposed to stay at and the flames were moving closer, then within 15 miles. We had 48 hours to completely plan camp, from scratch. Our original plans were centered around the Manti temple; doing baptisms for the dead, attending the pageant, etc. Luckily, a few long hours later we found another cabin in Heber to stay at and called an emergency meeting to plan camp again, in a new location.

Well, we did it. Not without a few bumps and more down time than we had wanted, but we did it. The girls were more than understanding, didn’t complain at all and went along with everything we did. Here are the highlights:

Wednesday: arrive, dinner, skits, devotional and games

ARRIVE