Jessie's Blog: Girls Camp

I got the opportunity to go to Girls Camp as a leader this year. For those of you who don't know about Girls Camp it is awesome. My church takes all the girls ages 12-18 camping for a few days. We hang out, do crafts, learn how to cook out doors, eat lots of junk food, sing silly songs, and laugh...a lot.

I didn't really enjoy it as a youth. I like being clean too much. So when they asked me to go as a leader I was a little hesitant...until I found out who I would be working with. The other adult leaders (esp. the camp director) are a-mazing! You never realize as a participant how much work goes into planning something like this. We had to come up with outdoor/camping friendly crafts (not as easy as you would think), food, tuck-ins, t shirts, spiritual messages, etc. for about 50 people for 4 days! That is a lot. Luckily we had a rock-star food committee and awesome young women's presidency (headed up by ma mere) to handle a lot of that stuff. It was wonderful to get to know the YW in the ward better too. I got to be better friends with some, and really started friendships with others. They were all super amazing; they totally stepped up when we needed them to help out, and hardly complained at all. Even when we 'got the opportunity' to serve the camp ground we were staying at by staining a million mile long wood fence in the blazing July heat, they toughed it out and got the job done. I loved camp!