Girls Camp - Day 2

The day started early when the other stake using the lower campground started a car alarm at 6 am!!! It was a cold night but we all survived. Breakfast was served and we got camp ready for the wards to arrive. We put out balloons, pounded signs into the ground and got ready. 

The camp directors came up with an idea to have each ward search for rocks painted in their values. The 5th years had painted the rocks and they had scriptures on them. The wards had to find the rock, look up the scripture, solve the clue and then put a phrase together. It was supposed to be a fun game for them to do when they were bored. So we spent a long time hiding rocks and marking their positions on a map. If the girls got stuck, they could come to the stake for help but it would come at a cost...i.e. shoulder messages, running errands, cleaning, etc. We walked all over the campground that morning!

At about 9:45 the wards started coming in. We waited by the front gate with the 5th years to greet them.

The road down to camp.

The entrance to the upper camp.

The monument.

Our stake flag

We had no idea how competitive the wards would get with the rocks. What was supposed to be a boredom buster ended up being a big deal to the girls. We had accusations of rock tampering and our map mysteriously disappeared. We ended up spending a couple hours in the afternoon trying to help wards find their rocks but we couldn't remember where we hid them...that's what the map was for. But it all worked out in the end.

We had our devotional and then our camp kick off program. The committee focused on the ways that girls in our stake demonstrate their uniqueness, their bravery, their strength, their heart and their beauty. They asked primary kids in the Ward what each thing meant and I put together a video of their answers. It was hilarious.

We went to bed late that night and we laughed and laughed. When we were just calming down and falling asleep we heard someone walk up to the back of our tent. It was a light moon and the back of our tent was all lit up from outside. Suddenly we saw these "puppet people" walk behind our tent and throw something up in the air. It fell right back down and we heard a "dang!" We got the giggles when we realized someone was tying to toilet paper us. We saw the shadows try again to throw the toilet paper up. This time the roll landed right on the top of our tent. We died laughing!! I asked the shadows "Do you want me to get that for you?" The reply was "No, we're good." It was hilarious to watch the shadows toilet paper our tent. 

We finally fell asleep about an hour later after almost laughing ourselves sick. 

The TP job:

 Too funny!!