Girls Camp 2008

I was a third year this year. It was very fun. We had the best skit out of all the wards......except the stake staff and priesthood. It was Emmalyns first year. She had fun. The snipe hunt went pretty good.I learned alot and it was spiritual but......................not as good as the Trek.

Stake Youth Trek.

This year I had the opportunity to go on a youth Trek. It was the most spiritual experience I have ever had. It was very challenging. Each day we would push our handcarts over hot sandy roads and big bushes that tor up your legs for about 7 miles. We went so fast that they asked us to SLOW down. We would reach where we were supposed to be for our camp around lunch time. That meant we got to rest the rest of the day. One very spiritual experience was the woman's pull. The woman's pull was where all the men got "called" to serve in the army, so they had to leave all the women behind with the hand carts. After the Men were gone every family got on their knees and prayed to Heavenly Father that we would be able to make it up the steep hill we had to go up to get to the men. After we prayed the handcarts got in a line and then we started up the hill. It was very difficult to push our heavy hand carts up that hill. I have a firm testimony that we were helped by angels. I know that we would not be able to make it up that hill without the help of God.
After we went around the last bend in the road we saw the men behind a fence cheering us on. When we got close enough to see and hear them clearly, we saw tears running down their faces. They were also singing. My "brothers" told us that we could make it and to get out of the way while they pushed it the rest of the way. And sure enough, as soon as we crossed the fence line all my "brothers" pushed us ( gently ) out of the way. And with tears in their eyes they pushed our hand carts away. We quickly followed them so that other carts could get past the fence line.

There are so many more experiences that I had. I can't write them all down. But when we got to Zion it was a Heaven on earth. Ask me about helping the "families" that got left behind and were across the "river". It was amazing.

BYU Theatre Camp

This year I went to a two week Theatre camp at BYU Provo. It was a great experience. I grew as an actor and I got a small taste of what it would be like to attend BYU. The first day we had auditions. Auditions were slightly nerve recking. Later that day we got the cast list. 

For the next four days we had classes from 9am to 12pm at the HFAC. Then we would go to lunch. After lunch we would go back to the HFAC for rehearsals.  Some days we would practice until 10pm. Other days we would get done around 5:30- 6 pm so that we could go on a "Field Trip". For one of our "Field Trips"  we went to Temple square and went and saw the Joseph Smith movie. For the other one we went the musical Little Women at the Hale Theatre in Orem. It was REALLY good. Thursday the 3rd of July, we had our performance. The play we preformed was ONCE ON THIS ISLAND.  The performance went very well.  After the performance we had a cast party where we saw a sideshow and then had a "Award" ceremony. My "Award" was called Mother Masseuse because I gave the BEST back rubs.