WHOSE NOT AFRAID OF THE WOODS ANYMORE....ME!! OH YEAH!!:)

I just got back from camp and it was just one of the best experience ever!!! FYI..I went to a young womans camp for my ward which is sunburst ward in Glendale AZ. I have had no experience in young womans and also in camping...I know what you are thinking DISASTER!! Well if you weren't thinking it I was..LOL...anyways lets get into it I have a lot to blog about. So I kind of felt like I had a rough start towards camp only cuz of the night before. I was being lazy all day and decided to fall asleep during the day and took a three hour nap with the kids. So I wake up later on that night and started to pack and it took me all night till it was a couple hours before I had to go...I know I know what a procrastinator!! and we had to leave @ 6:30am ugh! oh well I eventually got packed, did a check list, and got there on time..YAY!!:) Day 1 @ camp so after all the head counting, checking in, and loading all the buses, we were finally on our way.The drive up was a bit long, but very nice it felt like a road trip. When we finally arrived @ camp we had to unload our stuff, settle in, and decorate our cabins. As we were settling in I checked our schedule, it was so unbelievable that we had to wake up every morning @ 6:00AM!! And every minute of every day was filled with something to do, from the time we woke up till the time we went to sleep.
Also every morning & evening we had to do roll call and flag ceremony, while we were waiting for everyone to get there we had to do cheers. OMG!! I have never heard of any of these songs before, they were okay for the first couple of days. But by the time the third day came, I got very tiresome and was done with them. For my first day @ camp my activities were archery, which was pretty cool for my first time I got 3/6 on the board. Then we did a treasure hunt / get to know you activity, I so felt like a drill sergeant..poor poor girls LOL! For the rest of the day we ate, chilled, and got to know each other a little better. As for the second day @ camp we started it off with a hike. It was so nice to hike in the woods, the scenery was so beautiful and it felt so spiritual being out there. So I came back early becuz the girl I was hiking with got injured she had a sprained ankle. While we were waiting for the rest of the girls to return we decided to take a nap, first off I overslept, secondly I missed a meeting but thank goodness for the other leaders for being on time. And when they finally woke me up they said I was..SNORING!! NoOoOo!! Can you say embarrassing?! UGH! LOL! Moving on...We then had crafts time, we made picture frames and traded tiles for our friendship necklaces. The picture frame came in handy for father's day, seeing as if I couldn't shop ahead of time and it was so close in timing.
The last activity we did for that night was so awesome and realistic, it was hold to the rod!! So the girls were blind folded and they had to hold on to a rope. The rope started from the theater cabin and went down about a mile and a half to end at the sacred grove. All the leaders had to help out with this activity, some were tempters to get you to leave the rope like satan. & others were angels..of course I was and angel and we had to hand out gems. Certain gems represent certain values in the young women's values, it was such a great experience I even got teary eyed:) OkAy were on day three @ camp so we got to sleep in....a whole half an hour later..and  yet we still got up @ 6 in the morning LOL. The day was pretty relaxed this day the bishop and his wife got to come up for testimony meeting, but our bishop and his wife was out of town so instead we got the Hide's our first counselor and his wife. They are such a great and sweet couple, we even got to have dinner with them. After dinner we had a ycl program and the ycls are girls that are older like the 5th or 6th year girls that have attended camp. They had a choir program and we had one of our own girls doing one of the solos, can I just say she was amazing!! I can't wait until she gets big and famous so look out for her Jessica Crouse!! 
This program was so moving that almost everyone cried....yes yes even me, I'm just a big cry baby but the water works don't stop there. After the ycl program we had testimony meeting with our first counselor and his wife, I swear I couldn't hold back my tears even if I tried they flowed out of me like there was no tomorrow. The meeting was so spiritually cleansing and emotionally moving, I was so touched & thankful to have experienced camp they way I did and with the people I did it with. When we got done with our testimony meeting we gave hugs and ate krispy creme doughnuts. We acted like fools for the rest of the night, we were laughing @ everything and anything. We laughed so loud that you could hear us across camp, and laughed so hard till it hurt and trust me it hurt bad!! hahaha ahh the memories:) I got to talk to henry and the kids before I went to bed, if you ask me this was a perfect day for me!:) Final day @ camp I am so glad to go home but at the same time I am so going to miss camp. So we got up, had breakfast and roll call, then we had to clean up and pack up all our stuff. We had to wait a lil while for the buses & as we waited we played games to keep us entertained, once the buses got there we hurried and loaded our stuff and then went about our way. We eventually reached home and had to say our goodbyes but got to see our families loving faces...... Well until next time love always muah!!:)

P.S. The best part of it all is they loved me and they called me the coolest funniest leader ever!! how awesome is that?! The lord has truly answered my prayers!!:) LOVE YA..