Girls Camp-Thursday July 12th

Happy 29th Birthday to me!

This year I got to celebrate my birthday at Girls Camp again. Luckily one of the leaders had a cell phone that worked in our cabin so I called Clint and his mom to wish them a happy birthday too.

My birthday was not short on beautiful views to start off my morning.

 This year instead of awarding a "Spirit Stick" to the ward with the most spirit, they had an Olympic torch. Each ward had a day that they would receive the torch and a gift from the ward they got it from. We got the torch Thursday morning, along with an apple and cherry pie.

 Marinn and Mindy catching some shade under the torch.

After morning roll call and devotional we had our Olympic Games.

 There was quite the variety of games. A lot of the games were inspired by the ward's country.

 This game the girls had to pick pasta up with a straw and walk over to the bucket and drop it in, all without using their hands.

 

Amelia with her straw loaded with pasta.

 Javelin throw

 This game one person was blindfolded with a bucket. Everyone else had rocks that they were trying to drop in the bucket. Object is to not get any rocks in your bucket.

The girls had to carry water in a bowl on their head and then dump it into the next person's bowl.

Syree catching the water.

 Syree passing off the water to Marinn.

 Amelia catching the water.

This game there were things hidden in the dirt. The girls had to take their walking sticks and find the hidden prizes.

 This game was entertaining to watch. One girl stood behind the other and applied makeup.

 Syree getting her makeup put on.

 So pretty

 After the makeup relay, the girls had to try to eat M&Ms with chopsticks. Amelia was really good at this.

The best game was our wards game. We had the girls play Topfschlagen.

It is a game played among German kids where one person crawls around, blindfolded, beating a spoon on the ground trying to find the pot, which has candy under it. The teammates yell Heisst (hot) and Kalt (cold) to direct them where to go.

 

 Amelia

  Syree

Marinn

Last year Mindy and I did a relay that I beat her in, so we decided to do a rematch. I apparently picked a bad team because they directed me to the wrong pot so Mindy beat me but it was just by a couple seconds.

That afternoon we had skits. Our ward did almost the whole skit in German.

 Lori starting the "lawn mower". It just needed a big "jerk" to get it started.

 The YCLs had commercials in between each skit. They were hilarious!

After skits came...

 BIRTHDAY CAKE! Aleshia came up Tuesday and brought a birthday cake with her. I had Happy Birthday sang to me a lot, I was sang more versions of Happy Birthday than I knew existed.

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 I decided the piece of cake right in the middle was the one I wanted.

 During ward time Aubrey certified the girls in First Aid. Aleshia made an excellent choking victim while Aubrey demonstrated the Heimlich maneuver.

 This year was the 100th year of Girls Camp. In celebration of that we were encouraged to do 100 acts of service. The box on the left with leaves contained 100 pom-poms when we started. With each act of service we put a pom-pom in the jar on the right. By Thursday we achieved 100 acts of service!

Thursday night members of the Bishopric came up from each ward. We were lucky to have Bishop Mills and Brother Mathis come up.

 Brother Mathis, Bishop Mills

Mindy, Carrie, Aleshia, Nicole, Amelia, Aubrey

Marinn, Shae, Syree

Everyone was give a medal at the beginning of camp that had a list of the requirements for their year in camp to get their camp certification. When all the requirements were marked off you turned your medal around to show the YWs torch. During our ward time on Thursday all the girls finished their requirements, earning their medals.

 For our roll call we marched up to the front humming the Olympic theme song...

 

 then we flipped our medals around and...

 hummed the national anthem as we kissed and showed off our medals (just like the Olympians do when they win). We had fun with it.

Group Pictures

 The YCLs and Lori

The Stake Leaders

 The YCLs and all the stake leaders

 Our ward showing off our flag.

 The YCLs showing off their flag.

That night was ward testimony meeting. Usually we do testimonies around a fire, but we were not allowed to have any fires this year. Instead we took our lanterns we had made for the camp craft and set them around the fire pit. The fake flickering tea lights were the perfect effect for a peaceful night.