So without any pictures to show off (because of lost camera), girls camp this year went wonderfully! The theme was Dr. Seuss's "Oh The Places You'll Go". Each ward picked a Dr. Seuss book and played up the rhyming fun. Wednesday night they all had the wonderful experience on a walk of Places Where the Savior Went. As they walked in small groups, they listened to 5 women who were a part of Christ’s life. They learned about repentance and the power of the atonement from the woman who committed adultery and was about to be stoned. They were taught by Mary Magdalene and about her experience seeing the Resurrected Christ. They felt faith through the woman who had a long term illness and was healed by touching the hem of Jesus’ robe. They learned that through a quiet voice, a woman in ancient America heard our Heavenly Father announce the coming of the Resurrected Savior’s. But as Mary told the girls of her experience as the mother of the Savior of the world, giving birth, raising him and ultimately witnessing his crucifixion, I was impressed with how much our Father in Heaven loved us to send His Son. Our Heavenly Father shared His Son with each one of us and by divine design; He let Him suffer so that we could return to live with Him again. After they Young Women met these incredible women from the Savior's life, they listened to the Savior talk to them as He quoted scripture and told them personally His divine plan for each one of them. It was an impressive and incredible night.
Thursday after their hike, we were taught by Brother Bliss Roberts (an EFY speaker). The girls memorized 10 essential scriptures in 8 minutes! It was incredible to listen to him teach and show the girls how exciting and fun the scriptures are (Oh the Places You'll Go In the Scriptures.) That night was Bishops night. All the girls especially look forward to Bishops night when they Bishops bring up dinner and have a personal testimony meeting with their Young Women.
Friday morning the Stake Presidency fixed breakfast - eggs, bacon, pancakes, dutch oven potatoes - yummm!!! After all this, ward broke camp and left for home. All in all I think it was an incredible camp with lots to do and learn. I am so grateful for the opportunity girls camp gives us to teach the girls, not only skills for the outdoors, but hopefully to teach them of the gospel, their Savior, and their divine nature.
I definately can say that Girls Camp is my favorite part of my calling! These girls are amazing and wonderful!
Friday, July 30, 2010
Sunday, July 25, 2010
4th Year Overnighter
July 14th and 15th, the Stake Camp Director and I took a group of 11 YW from Panguitch and Circleville area to St. George for an overnight activity. The young women were all 4th year girls at camp this year and we let them plan their adventure activity. And what an adventure it turned out to be!
We left Panguitch and headed to St. George to do baptisms for the dead. Here's where the miracles begin. A couple of weeks before we left, we made reservations with the temple. They let us know we would be needing to bring our own names for baptisms. I felt my heart drop! How on earth would we enough names for our girls to have a temple experience? After many (really) phone calls, I secured about 4 names while the other leader from Circleville secured 25 names. I thought how would we ever get enough names for the girls to do? Our prayers were finally answered when a woman here in Panguitch called me and said she heard we needed names. We ended up with 65 names! Enough to do the baptisms!
After the temple, we headed to the Washington Rec Center to swim. Needless to say, my AC went out and the temp was 117 degrees! Dropping the girls off to swim, I went to find a shop that could fix my van and was just able to find a spot right before 5 pm! Another miracle. They were able to get me on my way by the next day. Nancy was generous enough to bring me over her van to shuttle girls around for the rest of our trip.
We were able to spend a comfortable night in my nephew's wife's sister's house (got that?) in St. George. A really beautiful home that the girls really felt pampered in!
Later that night after dinner Sherida and I treated the girls to a pedicure night, visited with them about Christ's service in washing the disciples feet and then walked around the temple. Here another miracle, or just a wonderful experience. We were there so late that a gentleman was closing the gates. He visited with our Young Women and let them ask him questions about the temple and it's history. A really nice ending to our night. Well almost... I guess the girls really didn't end their night until about 2 am!
The next morning, to thank the sisters from our stake who helped provide us with names, Sherida and I headed back to the temple the next morning to do the initiatory for as many names as we could do in 2 hours. We were able to do 28 of the names.
We headed back to our little homes happy, fulfilled in our service, and grateful for the fun time we had! Needless to say, my camera was missing. Please fill in the narrative with your own imagination! We have a great time!
We left Panguitch and headed to St. George to do baptisms for the dead. Here's where the miracles begin. A couple of weeks before we left, we made reservations with the temple. They let us know we would be needing to bring our own names for baptisms. I felt my heart drop! How on earth would we enough names for our girls to have a temple experience? After many (really) phone calls, I secured about 4 names while the other leader from Circleville secured 25 names. I thought how would we ever get enough names for the girls to do? Our prayers were finally answered when a woman here in Panguitch called me and said she heard we needed names. We ended up with 65 names! Enough to do the baptisms!
After the temple, we headed to the Washington Rec Center to swim. Needless to say, my AC went out and the temp was 117 degrees! Dropping the girls off to swim, I went to find a shop that could fix my van and was just able to find a spot right before 5 pm! Another miracle. They were able to get me on my way by the next day. Nancy was generous enough to bring me over her van to shuttle girls around for the rest of our trip.
We were able to spend a comfortable night in my nephew's wife's sister's house (got that?) in St. George. A really beautiful home that the girls really felt pampered in!
Later that night after dinner Sherida and I treated the girls to a pedicure night, visited with them about Christ's service in washing the disciples feet and then walked around the temple. Here another miracle, or just a wonderful experience. We were there so late that a gentleman was closing the gates. He visited with our Young Women and let them ask him questions about the temple and it's history. A really nice ending to our night. Well almost... I guess the girls really didn't end their night until about 2 am!
The next morning, to thank the sisters from our stake who helped provide us with names, Sherida and I headed back to the temple the next morning to do the initiatory for as many names as we could do in 2 hours. We were able to do 28 of the names.
We headed back to our little homes happy, fulfilled in our service, and grateful for the fun time we had! Needless to say, my camera was missing. Please fill in the narrative with your own imagination! We have a great time!
Where is my brain!!!
So after the 4th of July fireworks here in Panguitch (which I might add are pretty darn good for a little town!), I lost my camera! I can remember it in the chair and the next day when I was looking for it, it was gone! I can't really blame it on my neighbors, they don't really say much except "Moo" and I can't blame it on McKenna - she was in Chicago. I could try to blame it on my Garrett but he was busy picking up the spent fireworks. Kimber and Addison ran inside and straight to bed and little Leighton - well, she missed the show entirely preferring her bed to the screaming and booming of the fireworks display. Jeff is always on top of everything that is his, so my loss is entirely my own fault to which I will place upon my absentminded brain! Hopefully, my absentmindedness will lead me to where my camera is hiding!
Monday, July 5, 2010
The Ant and the Grasshopper
So I must be feeling just a little political right now working in the health care field and all the changes that are starting. This was at work the others day and I just wonder if this is where we are headed. Happier postings to come!
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be WARM AND WELL-FED while others are COLD AND STARVING. CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC shows up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in acountry of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing, ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green.’ Jesse Jackson and Barach Obama stage a demonstration in front of the ant’s house where the news stations film the group singing, ‘We shall overcome”.
Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share. Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer!
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government. Hillary Clinton gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill Clinton appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients.
The ant loses the case. The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles around him because he doesn’t maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident; and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.
Please don't missunderstand me, I love our country, it is a choice land. I love the opportunities we enjoy here and I know that we are blessed to be living here. I just can see the similarities between this parable and how I see our Emergency Room used.
Whew, now that that's off my chest.....
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be WARM AND WELL-FED while others are COLD AND STARVING. CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC shows up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in acountry of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing, ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green.’ Jesse Jackson and Barach Obama stage a demonstration in front of the ant’s house where the news stations film the group singing, ‘We shall overcome”.
Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share. Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer!
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government. Hillary Clinton gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill Clinton appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients.
The ant loses the case. The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles around him because he doesn’t maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident; and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.
Please don't missunderstand me, I love our country, it is a choice land. I love the opportunities we enjoy here and I know that we are blessed to be living here. I just can see the similarities between this parable and how I see our Emergency Room used.
Whew, now that that's off my chest.....
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