July 10-18...Kelly and the girls spent the week at Camp Kolob in Southern Utah. This was Girls Camp, Scout Camp, High Adventure and Youth Conference all wrapped up into one week. Our Stake Presidency was inspired to have our youth "do hard things," and this was one of the inspirations.
On undeveloped property, the youth built a camp from scratch. They traveled by bus on Friday evening and arrived at camp Saturday morning. They built tables to eat at, a kitchen, showers, bathroom/outhouses, an amphitheater, life guard tower, archery and shooting range, an obstacle course and anything else that they needed. After camp was built, the boys and girls separated to their camps. The group came together on Sunday for services and spent the week hiking, backpacking, repelling, canoeing and all other things scout and girls camp related.
Jenna and Heather participated in the Polar Bear plunge, sunrise hikes and repelling. During Heather's practice repel, she tipped over and slammed into the side of the rock cliff injuring her tailbone and splitting her elbow open. She still went on her 5th/6th year hike with the 100ft repel and had a blast. The girls each made a new friend that had moved into the stake over the summer which was a nice bonus this year.
Thursday-Friday was Youth Conference where the fun continued. There was a color run, obstacle course that teams participated in, paint gun fights (Jenna didn't participate due to wanting to look good for the dance that night, and Heather was prohibited due to injury), a luau with a real pig roast and island dancing, speakers, silly leader skits, and a dance. There is so much the girls and Kelly would probably write about the trip, and if I can, I'll get them to tell me what they would write in a blog post about the experience. For now, it's documented. There's talk about going back to this camp because the youth loved it so much. No phones, iPods, gaming systems or for that matter, flushing toilets. But they loved it. And of course on the way home they stopped at their favorite spot for huge shakes, fries and chicken strips!
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