Girls Camp

I just returned from Girls' Camp on Saturday. Wow!! It was awesome. Our theme this year was "Be Strong Together," with the scripture in Joshua 1:9 as a guide: "Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.


The first day we spent focusing on how to be strong together with the Lord. We started out the day with a great service project and we learned how we can be His hands on earth as we serve our fellow men. We also went to the shooting range and learned how to shoot...learning how to line up the sights and the target....it was a visual teaching of how to have our lives in line with our Heavenly Father's desire for us to each return and live with him again.




We must have our sights set on the target and be headed (pointed) in the right direction. We also spent that evening focusing on how to see ourselves as Heaven sees us. We need to not be so concerned on our outward appearance, but focus on seeing ourselves each as a unique, precious daughter of our God.

We also spent time learning how to be strong together as Young Women. We had our traditional pageant which was so fun...we have such creative, talented young women.

We got to go to a climbing wall and learned how to be strong together like a rope, with all the strands being strong together to make one strong line. We learned how to be encouraging to each other and cheer each other on, rather than find fault and break someone down.

We all got a chance to climb...it was tough, but a lot of fun.

We spent an afternoon at the Vernal temple. We learned it's history of going from an old, worn down tabernacle into a beautiful, sacred temple of our Lord. We learned that each one of us is beautiful and sacred and that our Father sees us as such. Sometimes we don't see ourselves this way, but that doesn't change who we really are.

We spent time recognizing all of the ways that we feel the hand of the Lord in our lives...and realized that we are blessed daily and that He knows what we need and answers our prayers.

We had a fun craft activity making these cute watches.

We spent a lot of time laughing and enjoying great friends!

We also got to hike up to an ancient Fremont Indian petroglyph.

We learned about what the petroglyph told us and it was just awesome. We did much more, these are just some of the highlights, but we learned a lot, we grew together as sisters, and we felt the love that our Heavenly Father has for each one of us. It was a fun week!!