This week I was away at GIRLS CAMP! Here's the wrap-up:
We had such a cute theme. The stake (it was stake camp this year) chose "How does your garden grow". Each ward was assigned a value and chose a flower to go with the associated value-color. We had integrity, which is purple, so our flower was the petunia.
Every ward had to make up a skit. We lip-sync/acted out the old song "I'm a Lonely Little Petunia In An Onion Patch" by Two Ton Baker. The moral of the story is that even when you are in a stinky situation you can stand tall like the petunias and keep your integrity strong. *Way cute.* Our ward's camp cheer: "We are petunias, mighty and tall. It will make more than onions to make us fall. Scriptures and prayer will be the glue, to make our integrity stong and true!"
We played the iron rod game. Where a string is tied over obstacles and the girls are blindfolded and have to 'hold to the rod' and make it to the end. It turned out really good. Some of the leaders were good influences (tried to get them to stay on the rope) and others were bad (tried to get them off the rope). I was an advisary. I told them to let go of the 'rod' and follow me. Nobody followed me off the course, but Hubby got some people off because he told them they were at the end (when they really weren't). They believed him, but he was really just being the advisary. Afterwards they all talked about how hard it was. But really, what was hard was to be the advisary. I got better and better at it; which I don't necessarily think is a good thing. That just proved to me how good the advisary really does get, and how much harder that makes it on us. What made my role extra hard was when the girls started singing. While they were waiting to be put on the rope they all had gathered in a circle and started singing hymns. One hymn after another. It really made my job tough! How could I influence them to do the wrong when they were singing and bringing the spirit in?! Anyway, good lessons were learned that night; by girls and by leaders.
I learned a lot more about the girls than I need to know. I now know what a turtle head is. Don't ask.
A lot of the leaders from the other wards kept complimenting out girls on how unified they were. They were all having a great time. And they all got together. But honestly, I think our unification came from how blunt we all were with each other. See the above point. (hehehehehe). Nothing was sacred (except the spiritual stuff.... you know what I mean). We just had a great time with each other!
When a group of LDS young women sneak down to the Baptist boys bible camp that's next door to where we are camping I sure hope they leave some Books of Mormon.
Hubby came up for the last two days (to be our priesthood). One thing he noted that is different at girls camp than at boys camp is all the cheers and singing. The girls are always singing and cheering and having a good ol'time. Let's see.....
Song#1: (this has hand motions tht go along with it) "Oh a boy, without a Mormon girl, is like a ship, without a sail, it's like a boat without a ruddder, it's like a ship without a sail. Oh a boy, without a Mormon girl, is like a wreck, upon the sand. There's only one thing worse, in this universe, and that's a Mormon girl, I said a Mormon girl, I mean a Mormon girl without a man...... we oughta knoooooooooowwwww...."
Song#2: (to the tune of "Popcorn Popping on the Apricot Tree) I looked out the window and what did I see? Tall dark and handsome returned miss-o-na-ary. Spring had brought me such a nice suprise. Tall dark and handsome right before my eyes. I could take an armful and kiss all three. But only one for eternity. It wasn't really so. But it seemed to me, Tall dark and handsome returned miss-o-na-ary.
*~*~* It was a fun girls camp!!! *~*~*
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