Who will you Become? GIRLS CAMP 2014

 Theme: CLUE

Mystery?: Who will you become

And to solve any mystery you need to to answer these 3 questions?

WHO, WHAT, WHERE?

So we took one question and that is what we focused our devotionals on for that day?  

1-WHERE do you need to be to BECOME who you are mean to become?  

2-WHAT do you need to become this person?-- Scriptures, Patriarchial blessings, words from the prophets.  

3- WHO will help you become this person?  Jesus Christ.

We started the girls camp off at the church and played a life size game of CLUE in the church.  We had the leaders dress up as the different characters such as Sis. Scarlet, Elder Green, Bishop Mustard etc. Then we staged a kidnapping of our YW president (bc she was gone taking her son to the MTC).  So our tools were things like she was handcuffed with twizzlers, or coerced with Hershey's or the kidnapper blew pixy stick dust in her eyes.  The girls had to run around to the different rooms that were decorated as The ballroom, Dining room etc... find their clues and come back and roll the dice. It was actually a really fun game!  They were totally into it.  I can't believe how well it worked out!

To introduce the CLUE theme I made this little silent movie with my iphone that we showed at the beginning.  The Belle was our YW president who went missing, and the doll house was the location of our church party during a big rainstorm.  It was a blast to do. Here are all the characters!

And then here are the REAL GAME PEICE CHARACTERS!!

Because Cordelle is in the Bishopbric, he was able to come to camp with me!  So fun! He was such a good sport.  And SOOOOO patient with my OCD planning Girls camp.

We had a song/joke/game share around the campfire, watched a movie on a huge outdoor projector, played tons of group relay games - one where they had to get a clue from Cordelle who was sitting casually till they started to walk over to him, after which he took off running.  It was so funny to watch the girls try to catch him running all over camp.  He was  a good sport.  We found lanterns in the woods and had a late night testimony meeting.  We ate a lot of junk and yummy meals, went to a leach infested lake :/, had some incredible skits, sang a lot of camp songs, almost got struck by lightning 2 minutes into our hike (seriously the loudest boom of thunder I have ever heard made us quickly do an about face and head back for the cars...and rearrange the schedule), hiked the next day 5 miles where some barely made it out ;) but everyone finished.....truly it was all I ever imagined in a girls camp with VERY minimal drama.  So much fun to see it all come together. What a great bunch of girls.

Couldn't have done it without SO many people.  And look at the picture below?  MY  MOM TOTALLY CAME!  I haven't been to a girls camp without her so it was all complete! Love that she came and introduced so many songs at camp!

Hiked in Bryce Canyon! Beautiful!

Quotes on Becoming!
"From such teachings we conclude that the Final Judgment is not just an evaluation of a sum total
of good and evil acts—what we have done. It is an acknowledgment of the final effect of our acts
and thoughts—what we have become. It is not enough for anyone just to go through the motions.
The commandments, ordinances, and covenants of the gospel are not a list of deposits required to
be made in some heavenly account. The gospel of Jesus Christ is a plan that shows us how to
become what our Heavenly Father desires us to become.

To testify is to know and to declare. The gospel challenges us to be “converted,” which requires
us to do and to become.

We all know someone who has a strong testimony but does not act upon it so as to be converted.
Now is the time for each of us to work toward our personal conversion, toward becoming what
our Heavenly Father desires us to become.

This is achieved not just by doing what is right, but by doing it for the right reason—for the pure
love of Christ. The Apostle Paul illustrated this in his famous teaching about the importance of
charity (see 1 Cor. 13). The reason charity never fails and the reason charity is greater than even
the most significant acts of goodness he cited is that charity, “the pure love of Christ” (Moro.
7:47), is not an act but a condition or state of being. Charity is attained through a succession of
acts that result in a conversion. Charity is something one becomes.

What is essential is that our labors in the workplace of the Lord have caused us to become
something. For some of us, this requires a longer time than for others. What is important in the
end is what we have become by our labors.

Elder Oaks said, It is not even enough for us to be convinced of the gospel; we must act and
think so that we are converted by it. In contrast to the institutions of the world, which teach us to
know something, the gospel of Jesus Christ challenges us to become something.

GOOD STUFF!