Girls Camp

For as many years as I've served in Young Women I have never, ever gone to girl's camp!  I've always been pregnant or nursing... but this year I had no excuse!  I was a little nervous to be in a tent with a bunch of women I didn't know but it ended up being a great week!

I loved spending time with the 2nd year girls... especially the ones from our ward.  They are the best.

(Audrey Gadeski, Ellie Belt, Pam Worthen, Abby Davis)

We did a lot of fun activities like Zip Lining.  The girls were pretty sure it was going to take a lot of convincing to do it too and were surprised that I went so willingly!  

(Alexis Abney and Payton Sinquefield)

I also joined the 2nd year girls on a hike.  It was longer and hotter than we all expected!

We also had fun climbing the rock wall.

(Abby Davis and Pam Worthen)

And we had the greatest girls camp crafts.

Some of my very favorite girls!

We even had paintball and archery.

There was even a little bit of downtime for volleyball...

... and hair and nails.

Watching the girls get out of their comfort zones is my very favorite.

There were all sorts of great carvings up at camp.  There was a giant beehive... so we just had to get a picture of our ward Beehives there.  (These are just the Beehives in our ward!  Can you believe it??  They are all amazing girls!)

The thing I was most nervous about was spending a week with women I didn't know.  It ended up being the very best part of camp!  I enjoyed getting to know these amazing ladies from our stake!

I'm a little sad that next year will be just ward camp... I'm excited for stake camp again!