Girl's Camp

I didn't take many pictures because we were SO busy but here are the ones I did take...

We were asked, along with one other couple, to cook 2 meals and 1 snack per day for 4 days  for a Camp for girls aged 12-18. It's a camp that incorporates spiritual thoughts, fun, camaraderie, games, crafts, service and skill learning (like archery). It's in the middle of the forest but has small cabins, bathrooms and a working kitchen.

 We borrowed a truck and a 5x8 trailer to haul up just half of the food. The other couple did the same. We even brought up our deep freezer to keep just some of the meat frozen.

 Here is J (in yellow) and N cooking hamburgers for 250 people.  We also did bbq chicken and taco salad for dinners. Breakfast was breakfast burritos, oatmeal/Haitian cream of wheat, and muffins, yogurt and hash. The snacks were dutch oven apple-pear cobbler and homemade kettle corn.

To make sure everyone stayed healthy and regular while camping we had a fruit platter every morning and a veggie one at night. One of our junior staff assistants showed her creative side by making beautiful arrangements for each platter. This one was an ode to our city.

It was exhausting work, all day but it was wonderful getting to serve with my husband, especially knowing my kids were being well taken care of by friends. Plus, everyone said the food was great and no one went hungry so we felt successful.

I asked J his favorite memory and he said it was after the first night all the men gathered together at their cabin (all 6 of them), just staring blankly, shaking their heads saying "Girls: they are a different breed!" Apparently boy's camp looks and sounds nothing like girl's camp but I wouldn't have it any other way.

The girls, during testimony meeting, expressed such gratitude for camp; for how it brought them closer together as girls/women; for strengthening their relationship with their Father in Heaven; for giving them more confidence to know they are daughters of God who are beautiful and special. I can only hope camp will be just as wonderful when my daughters get to go.