Girls camp

I just returned from my ward's girls camp. Our theme  was " Arise and Shine forth" which is also the LDS Youth mutual theme for the year.

The purpose of the camp was two fold. First, to get our YW to become more confident in themselves and in their interactions with others and second to solidify what " Arise and Shine forth" means to them this year.

I will expand on the second purpose in another post- but as for the confidence building, we took them to the beautiful Woodhill forest where an adventure wonderland awaited for us. We climbed 10-14 meters above the ground and completed very challenging activities as we wound our way through the treetops.

The girls blew me away, they were fearless and showed a real go get em attitude that we don't often see on Sunday or at mutual.  Later that night we talked about the need to apply that same attitude to everything else they do this year and challenged them to really push outside of their comfort zones. The girls have huge potential, but don't often see it so it was a great object lesson.

Here is a picture of us before we took to the trees: