Girls Camp

As YW President, I felt that it was really important for me to be at Girls Camp this year. Never mind how crazy this summer has been and will continue to be, it was totally worth it--kind of a last hooray before I was released (which will officially happen on Sunday).

To make it work, Rob's and my niece (on his side), Kori, flew out to watch the boys during the day (Rob has very limited time off this year during his residency, so he couldn't take the time off), and in the end, I'm not sure the boys missed me much at all even though it was the first time I've ever been away from Cooper, and it's the longest I've ever been away from Guy. In fact, when I called the day before I got home, Guy chose to hit the "ignore" button on Rob's phone so that he could keep playing his game.

Girls Camp was 4 hours away, near Kirtland  (I wish I'd gotten to see more of Kirtland since it's the only time I've ever been there). We were all over the place up there, though--canoeing, hiking, and swimming in a quarry. Afterwards, my bishop calculated that we drove over 500 miles that week. No wonder I came home exhausted.

A few of the leaders from other wards and the stake thought that I was a young women (I'm sure the braids on the last day didn't help that). When you get close enough, you can see the gray hair, though. . .

We had 9 girls in our camp, and some of them come from some very hard backgrounds. I was a little worried about how things would go, but it worked out fabulously. The girls did great, and had a wonderful time together. It was a neat experience to be with those girls, and I was continually grateful for my tremendous Camp Director. She was amazing at taking care of so much of the prep -- my help was limited as I've been house hunting and preparing for this upcoming move.

What a wonderful blessing it is to serve. Rob has made tremendous sacrifices me this year as I'm always running off to meetings (Ward Council, Presidency Meetings, BYC, Mutual, etc.). I'm grateful for his support, I know that I wouldn't have been able to be successful without it.

Our move is now 2 weeks from today (August 10) - Girls Camp started July 10. We still don't have a home, but I believe that things will work out in the right way. We've been looking (Rob's been working tremendously hard at that), and have gotten close on two, but one we're not sure a realtor even put through so we got a new realtor and we almost made a 2nd offer the other day, but right when we were about to put it in we found out that hours earlier someone else beat us to it, sigh. "It" will work out right--whatever "it" is. In the meantime, I wish we had a little more guidance in the housing department, but apparently, that would be to easy.