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06/14/15 Girls Camp

06/14/15

 Busy week!!!  

Monday and Tuesday were just normal days.  Worked hard to get the office ready to leave for the rest of the week.  Thank goodness for my little assistant Sarah -- I can leave now and not have a nightmare to return to!!!  

Wednesday morning I got up and packed and worked out and then at 7 a.m. we had to be at the Clark's house to leave for girls camp.  We got there a little late (7:15 a.m.) and everybody was packed and ready to go.  We had 10 girls...and to be honest they were NOT really happy to be going most of them.  

Our ward has a couple non-camper type girls, Katie and a couple that were happy to go, and about 7 that are fairly new and their parents made them come.  So the "I don't want to be here attitude" came along with them.  Cool, eh?!

For the first 24 hours I felt like we were dragging the girls along everywhere we went.  Every chance they got they went into the cabin and laid down to get over their "migraine" or catch up on their sleep or whatever.  And we'd be like...come on, it's time to go to opening.  And they would either completely ignore us or be like, in a minute.  Wah, wah.  

So poor Sis. Clark had to stay back at the camp site and "babysit" the stragglers.  The rest of us just went and had a good time and kept trying to get them to join us.  About 24 hours in Sister Clark did a game where we went around the table and said something nice about each person at the table.  At the same time I sat at another table and interviewed each one individually and went over the certification requirements.  

I talked to our most difficult one and she again said she wanted to go to bed.  (After all the sleep she had gotten I knew she was not really tired.)  So I said to her...  I think you are sleeping to cope with this situation here that you are uncomfortable in.  I told her to give us a chance and to try to get to know us and like us.  I told her to get a drink of water and go sit at the table for 20 minutes and try to have fun and then if she was still tired she could go lay down and I wouldn't say anything. 

It was like the switch flipped. The girls went around the table and said nice things about her.  The got to know her better.  She started smiling.  They all started really smiling and laughing and having fun together and girls camp really started to feel like it should.  Happy and fun! (And the napping stopped!!!!)

We had one go home early (prior to our flip the switch point) and another who came late due to anxiety issues.  

We had some really good workshops and firesides.  Sister Clark is a good cook so our meals were always really good (she helped every time even though she wasn't on the chart to...and I'm glad!)  

One of my favorite talks was by President Ellsworth.  Our theme was anchor yourself in Christ.  Brother Koeven and Brother Lewis got up and talked about anchoring a boat in the water...the way you usually think of anchors.  Their talks were very good and made you think about having a firm foundation in Christ.  President Ellsworth took it another step though and said that one time his boat was dead in the water and they couldn't get it started and they couldn't go anywhere.  Another boat came along and asked him to throw the anchor over to the other boat so that he could pull them to safety.  He used the other boat as the example of what Christ can do for us if we let him.  I really enjoyed the many great talks we had and it made me want to try harder and be a better person and turn more toward Christ and let him help me. 

We got home Saturday around 1 p.m. and hung out while Dad worked on Summer Games stories.  Dad and Dallas had to go to Zion lion's game last night so me and the girls went and got our hair cut, went to Del Taco for dinner and then did a little shopping.  It was a fun night out.  At bedtime Holly came to my room for me to read her a bedtime story (I was so tired I didn't want to fall asleep in her bed!)  

Today the primary is singing Father's Day songs since next week is Stake Conference.  

I hope you are enjoying your new area and things are going well for you.  I'm excited to hear from you!!!  

Love you lots! mom
















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