Girls Camp.

Girls camp is something I have always loved! Every year our stake went up to Camp Shalom. It is a place in the mountain that has been dedicated by the church specifically for girls camp! We sleep in "cabins"... more like "A framed" sheds! I always slept on a cot. There were bathrooms but you could not shower in them. So you would go a week without showering... the true side of camping! Girls camp was a place to learn cool skills and also to grow spiritually. I learned a lot about first aid and we had cool competitions as a stake. I also learned a lot about the gospel through firesides and scripture study in the mountain. You were not allowed to bring any electronics and so it was a great opportunity to be away from the world and be still.

My mom took this picture of me getting off of the bus!

Yes that is me striking a pose on the stairs!

The best part about it was that my mom went with me every year. I went 7 years to girls camp! I was a leader my last year. My dad came up my last year when I was a leader which was a blast to have him up there! The weather was different every year. Depending on when you went, the weather was different. One year we had about 5 girls faint from heat stroke and the next year we got snowed in!

Girls Camp was full of hiking, service, and crafts! The picture above is of Stacy and me. We were eating lunch in the middle of a hike/service project. As you can tell it was a nice day. The service project was moving trees! Camp Shalom got some kind of bug and they had to cut down a TON of trees. So our job was to go and move them out of the way of the trails. We are sitting on a bunch of the trees in the picture.

Girls camp was always a blast! I grew so close to the girls in my ward and always had a ton of fun! We had themes and colors which made it super fun! So we would dress up and deck out every day! In the above picture... as you can see... our color was orange. We were "builders" building the kingdom or something like that! It was so much fun! I had a blast all 7 years and I look forward to hopefully being able to go again sometime in the future as a leader!

girls camp.