Alaska Young Women Girls Camp 2014
This is our theme/logo
Getting ready for camp
This is Cisalee our faithful assistant who made these huge signs as the cars exited off the highway to the fairgrounds
She said she made this one in honor of me :)
Treats.... check
all packed up... check
forecast..... check
Bonnie, Cisalee and I tented together. Dad came early and set up our tent for us... and can you see the cots and the heater.... that's right I said heater. It was toasty warm each morning and at night.
Everyone entered the fairgrounds to register at the green gate.
Opening Ceremony - Bonnie is onstage welcoming everybody and having the girls all cheer when she calls out where they are from. In preparation for this girls camp, the young women were asked to memorized the Living Christ. This first afternoon, we said it aloud together. Check out that sky...
it was majestic.
First evening marshmallow
Speakers
Here are some of our speakers. Andy Horton and his wife Stephanie are on the far right. Jeannine and her husband Mike are next, Matt and I and Sister Marriott on the far left. Elder Call had not arrived yet.
Andy was our first speaker Monday evening. He was very funny and told joke after joke and then told in great detail how he and his wife met fell in love and became engaged. He focused on how she had prepared herself spiritually for that day, and waited to give her answer until she had asked the Lord.
This is Jeannine Lasky she teaches songwriting at BYU and has been our friend since we knew she and Mike in Ridgecrest many years ago. She spoke Tuesday Wednesday and Friday afternoons on wise media choices. She was fabulous and just darling with the girls.
(PS... I know my coat is tied awfully high on my waist... this is a no mocking zone :) )
This is Maddie Wilson... our entertainer on Monday evening after Andy spoke. She is 17 years old and just knocked it out of the park with her country voice. She wore that sparkly dress, but had her cowboy boots on too.
Such a high light for dad and I. Matt spoke Tuesday night. He was outstanding. He couldn't have been better. He talked about choosing and staying on the right path.
The girls would line up afterwards and ask the speakers to sign their journal and have their picture taken with them
This is our stake young women's presidency below. Each night most of the 7 stake yw presidencies dressed up silly and went around and gave treats to their stake young women and visited them. These women are absolutely wonderful. I love them all!
I asked 2 laurels to come up with a girls camp stomp. A little attention getter that we could use to begin each of our evening devotionals with. This doesn't sound that exciting.... I know... This was me previewing what they had come up with the weekend we visited them before camp. But with over 900 girls singing and stomping... and putting their own personality into it... it was a fun way to say... hey we're starting now.
I asked girls from all 7 stakes to help with the opening exercises. Each day I would meet with them give them outlines of the evening program and prepped them to get up on stage in front of so many people and conduct, or help with music and prayers. We also had fabulous special musical numbers each evening.
When we were ready to begin, the 2 laurels would come onstage and call into the microphone.... GIRLS CAMP STOMP and then they would start to clap and stomp then sing the words.... it was fun.
