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So I was the "Priesthood" (that is what they uniformly called me) at the Stake Young Women's Camp one night last week. Some random thoughts:
1) they eat far far better then I ever did as a boy scout--chicken alfredo for dinner, stuffed french toast for breakfast, gourmet sugar cookies with fluffy frosting for a snack;
2) they don't know anything about fire safety--I saw half a dozen untended fires as they all traipsed off to fireside and later to singing in the trees--every scoutmaster I have ever had is turning over in his grave;
3) they had some weird thing with "mascots"--a full-sized man-doll thing that they kept and tried to guard against the other ward girls from stealing him--which ever ward captured enough man-dolls got some prize--apparently they ended it early because some girls were getting pretty feisty about the whole thing--weird;
4) the YW leaders are saints--putting to bed a pack of teenage girls is tougher than putting to bed my old scout troop by far;
5) some girl saw a bear, she thinks, so we had to load out all the food to locked trailers about half a mile away--the boy scouts would never have thought twice about it--of course there was a boy scout eaten by a bear in that canyon a few years ago. . . ;
6) crafts are the main thing for most of the girls--they really like crafts;
7) they have 30 minutes of silent time in nature every day--one daughter told me she cried as she watched a spider make his web and two squrills chase each other just amazed at the beauty of creation--this is wonderful and we never did stuff like this when I was a scout.
8) the friendimony meeting was devoid of mentions of Christ, but full of love--my youngest daughter felt a bit isolated at the camp and at the meeting felt a great outpouring of love from and towards the other girls and the YW leaders--she needed that love and connection and got it in a wonderful way--I'll be more muted in my mockery of friendimonies in the future.
All in all a great experience for the girls and I am amazed at how much work goes into the whole thing. Boy Scouts just grab some tents and bags and maybe some rice and fishing poles and we head out into the great outdoors. The girls planned this thing for months and months and it looked like it--paper lanterns hanging from the trees, laminated photos of each girl hanging over an entrance to the camp, food better than what we often eat at home. Wow. Thanks to the volunteer leaders who make it all happen.
1) they eat far far better then I ever did as a boy scout--chicken alfredo for dinner, stuffed french toast for breakfast, gourmet sugar cookies with fluffy frosting for a snack;
2) they don't know anything about fire safety--I saw half a dozen untended fires as they all traipsed off to fireside and later to singing in the trees--every scoutmaster I have ever had is turning over in his grave;
3) they had some weird thing with "mascots"--a full-sized man-doll thing that they kept and tried to guard against the other ward girls from stealing him--which ever ward captured enough man-dolls got some prize--apparently they ended it early because some girls were getting pretty feisty about the whole thing--weird;
4) the YW leaders are saints--putting to bed a pack of teenage girls is tougher than putting to bed my old scout troop by far;
5) some girl saw a bear, she thinks, so we had to load out all the food to locked trailers about half a mile away--the boy scouts would never have thought twice about it--of course there was a boy scout eaten by a bear in that canyon a few years ago. . . ;
6) crafts are the main thing for most of the girls--they really like crafts;
7) they have 30 minutes of silent time in nature every day--one daughter told me she cried as she watched a spider make his web and two squrills chase each other just amazed at the beauty of creation--this is wonderful and we never did stuff like this when I was a scout.
8) the friendimony meeting was devoid of mentions of Christ, but full of love--my youngest daughter felt a bit isolated at the camp and at the meeting felt a great outpouring of love from and towards the other girls and the YW leaders--she needed that love and connection and got it in a wonderful way--I'll be more muted in my mockery of friendimonies in the future.
All in all a great experience for the girls and I am amazed at how much work goes into the whole thing. Boy Scouts just grab some tents and bags and maybe some rice and fishing poles and we head out into the great outdoors. The girls planned this thing for months and months and it looked like it--paper lanterns hanging from the trees, laminated photos of each girl hanging over an entrance to the camp, food better than what we often eat at home. Wow. Thanks to the volunteer leaders who make it all happen.
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