Day 178: Wednesday's Camp Adventures

So I have tons to tell about camp, so bare with me. Camp was so much fun this year!!! We all had a blast. I had a great time getting to know all the girls and leaders better. This years theme was S.I.M.P.L.E and that stands for Study the scriptures, Involve yourself in good works, Make and keep covenants, Pray always, Love one another and Endure to the end. On top of that we were also given a scripture that we had to memorize. This year our scripture was Alma 37:6 and it states "...but behold I say unto you, that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass." It was a great theme for my last year at camp and it was totally what I needed to hear!!!

Wednesday was awesome! We set up camp, in the best camp spot ever, then ate lunch and headed to flag where we sang songs and were welcomed to another great year of camp by our amazing stake leaders. Not much happened that day because it was our first day, but it was still awesome! Later that night we ate a spaghetti dinner and then headed down to flag where we sang some songs and took care of the flag ceremony.

After that we went to our opening fireside. We got to watch a slide show about simplicity and serving and then Pres. Jones gave a talk about choosing values and living by them. He talked about three women in the scriptures and how they stuck to following their values. As he talked about each one of them, he lit a candle to show that their light was shining. He then later pulled out three large lanterns to show that because of their willingness to do what was right, their lights never burned out. We were then given glow sticks and asked to raise them in our right hands and decide on a value that we would like to keep, and work on, for the rest of the year! It was an excellent fireside!

Besides that we just went back and roasted marshmallows and talked and had a good time. When it was time to go to bed we were, of course, all too wired to go to bed and we were up until about 12:30-1am. It was so much fun. April, Lisa, Chelsea and I all shared a tent and had a great time doing such! We sang this Mash Potato song and we just partied hard!

So I am realizing that telling you all about camp in one post would make for an INCREDIBLY long post, so I think I will tell you about it a day at a time, so stay tuned in tomorrow for all about Thursdays camp adventures.........TOOTLES!!!!!