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Post by Remove on Sept 2, 2007 20:18:36 GMT -5
hey please leave ur camp experinsec spitrual here...
Mine..
At camp this year we had a girl who came who came with a friend i became good friends with her she was so awsome any way her spirt grew very much at camp i cryed balled the whole testomoney meeting and she was so amazing even though she had some problems with self harming she had a strong spirt i can wait to see if she comes next year
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Post by Admin on Sept 3, 2007 10:04:33 GMT -5
The first time I felt the spirit- The first time I thought, in my head, "This just feels right, so familiar", the first time it crossed my mind that this might actually BE the TRUE church- was at camp. I didn't know all that much about the church- I mean, don't get me wrong, I had lived in Utah for four years, at that point- I knew SOME about it- but not that much. All I really knew is that my family absolutely HATED mormons. They were evil. My big brother (Who is 21), even said that they worship the Lucifer (The Devil), in their "Temples", but it's all top- secret. And they (my family) told me that they would try to brainwash me, if I went to their "camp" And I really wouldn't have gone at all, if it wasn't for the fact that I had ALWAYS wanted to go to a camp, but we had never had the money. That was something that I wanted SO badly, that I would even risk being "brainwashed", which I TRULY thought could happen. (which, OBVIOUSLY, didn't happen!! LOL) So, I decided to go, against my family's protest. My mom didn't really care, as long as I was careful not to be "Dragged into THEIR ways", and my church was paying for it, entirely. And off to camp, I went, to some odd place called "Oakcrest"
It was "Family Night", at Oakcrest. Our counselors, had us tie our bandannas around our eyes so we couldn't see, and it was late evening so it was getting dark quickly up in those mountains. Then they released us with the simple goal of figuring out where we needed to go.There were many leaders yelling at girls to go one way or another, and others who were whispering to go the opposite way. It got harder though, with less help until eventually I was guided by "a still small voice" to a rope and told to follow it. At the end of the rope, one of the counselors took us and to a huge picture of Jesus. By this point, it was lightly raining and dark, and the only thing lit up was that picture. They then whispered into our ear how much we were loved by our savior, and how if we would follow him, we could have eternal happiness. At the time, it felt so right, it felt peaceful. I KNOW many testimonies were born that night, and many grew significantly, it was brought up time and time again at the end of camp during testimony meeting- I know mine was born that night.
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Post by Remove on Sept 3, 2007 22:27:51 GMT -5
u r the only member in ur family ?
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Post by Admin on Sept 21, 2007 23:06:44 GMT -5
yep, I sure am!
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Post by Remove on Sept 22, 2007 11:47:06 GMT -5
oh i didint know that.
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Post by Kohaku on Sept 23, 2007 20:47:11 GMT -5
girls camp was one of the spiritual experience i've had in my life
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Post by Admin on Sept 25, 2007 11:33:55 GMT -5
That's WAY cool, Amber!
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Post by Kohaku on Sept 26, 2007 19:12:42 GMT -5
haha i cant wait till next year i get to be a YCl
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Post by Remove on Sept 27, 2007 14:33:59 GMT -5
next year i am a 3rd year
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Post by [.alyse.] on Oct 10, 2007 22:04:15 GMT -5
i was a YCL this summer! it was awesome!
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Post by Kohaku on Oct 11, 2007 21:39:20 GMT -5
I might not be able to go next year ... grrrr stupid work
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Post by .:Amanda:. on Jun 15, 2008 17:30:23 GMT -5
Last year at camp, we had repelling. I didnt really feel like doing it so I just went and watched the other girls in my ward. We were talkin to some girls from the ward ahead of us, but then they left. Then I got bored of watching my friends so I started hiking back to camp. On my way back, I looked down and about 20 yards from the trail there was a group of people that I couldn't see very clearly. I figured they were just hiking back up to the trail. Then when I got up the trail a little ways, there were 2 leaders standing there talking. The only part of their conversation I heard was "yeah she fell all the way from about 60 yards up there". So I got back to camp and apparently that group I saw down there was the preisthood giving a girl that had been in the ward ahead of us, and that I'd seen like 20 minutes ago, a blessing. Apparently she fell like 80 yards down the mountain when she was hiking back from repelling. After about an hour, they got her out of there and she had to be life flighted out of there. When the fourwheeler they had her on the back of to get her to the helicopter was driving there, all the girls in the stake lined the road and sang hymns. So they flew her out of there and the next morning the stake president got up to give a report and said that all the tests they did at the hospital came back and she hadn't broken a single bone and besides a little memory loss, was completely ok. It was a girls camp miracle!!
Sorry that was a mega long story but its a good one huh?
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Post by sakura on Jun 24, 2008 3:54:45 GMT -5
It was an excellent story thank you
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Post by ldsgirl Aka Sayari on Jun 24, 2008 23:03:20 GMT -5
Last year at camp, we had repelling. I didnt really feel like doing it so I just went and watched the other girls in my ward. We were talkin to some girls from the ward ahead of us, but then they left. Then I got bored of watching my friends so I started hiking back to camp. On my way back, I looked down and about 20 yards from the trail there was a group of people that I couldn't see very clearly. I figured they were just hiking back up to the trail. Then when I got up the trail a little ways, there were 2 leaders standing there talking. The only part of their conversation I heard was "yeah she fell all the way from about 60 yards up there". So I got back to camp and apparently that group I saw down there was the preisthood giving a girl that had been in the ward ahead of us, and that I'd seen like 20 minutes ago, a blessing. Apparently she fell like 80 yards down the mountain when she was hiking back from repelling. After about an hour, they got her out of there and she had to be life flighted out of there. When the fourwheeler they had her on the back of to get her to the helicopter was driving there, all the girls in the stake lined the road and sang hymns. So they flew her out of there and the next morning the stake president got up to give a report and said that all the tests they did at the hospital came back and she hadn't broken a single bone and besides a little memory loss, was completely ok. It was a girls camp miracle!! Sorry that was a mega long story but its a good one huh? I'm so happy that it had a good outcome for the injured girl!
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Post by Jayda on Dec 21, 2009 23:50:24 GMT -5
Girls camp 2008: Day one - we were on a mountain, camping, and we had a SEVERE thunderstorm warning. Lightning was hitting EVERYWHERE. One time it even hit so close that we all felt the shock. Oh, and then everyone's tents flooded but mine, so all of the girls ended up in ours xD Day two - we went white water rafting and our leader's raft flipped over and a couple of leaders got hurt. Day three - A bear invaded the camp and ate all of our food. Along with a whole lot of drama in between... -sigh- Haha. But camp is always good, regardless of the bad things, which, sadly, always occur.
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Post by Kohaku on Dec 30, 2009 10:17:18 GMT -5
Camp this year was a whole lot different for me not because the activities change much, but because it was my last year i think i took in a lot more. I never really cared much for camp till this year i didn't want to leave .. I had to leave a day and a half early because i had another camp to get to ... not sure which camp i learn more on ... sure learn a lot at both of them ... lol
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Post by ldsgirl Aka Sayari on Dec 30, 2009 22:14:14 GMT -5
Camp this year was a whole lot different for me not because the activities change much, but because it was my last year i think i took in a lot more. I never really cared much for camp till this year i didn't want to leave .. I had to leave a day and a half early because i had another camp to get to ... not sure which camp i learn more on ... sure learn a lot at both of them ... lol I never did get to go to camp, but I bet it was a bunch of fun!
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Post by Michael on Jan 7, 2010 20:53:33 GMT -5
Haha.. I just now notice.. but it been all girls who wrote in here xD..
Heres mine: When I went to efy last year in June 21-27. I went by myself.. was scared at frist cuz i was very shy. but I knew a guy from my ward was going as a leader and guess what.. He was in mine group. anyways skipping to Testiomy meeting. I cried a lot.. and everyone else did even the guys in my group who weren't stornge in the church. I got up and shared mine.. i cried.. and i felt the sprit a lot
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Post by shadow on Jan 9, 2010 21:35:19 GMT -5
At scout camp two years ago we decided to do a skit for the first time in 5 or so years but we couldnt think of anything to do because no of us were creative, then somehow we got on the subject of Chuck Norris jokes ad we decided to do a skit about one of the jokes, only Chuck Norris can led a horse to water and make it drink, The skit went wonderfully and no one had any Idea what we were doing untill our scout master yelled the joke from the back of the crowd, People were still talking about it even after camp, I ran into someone who was there at trek and he said it was good, it also got the second loudest applause out of all the skits
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Post by Michael on Jan 9, 2010 21:51:29 GMT -5
That's awesome, My scout troop always did the same skit.. Its hard to explain.. but it takes triplets to be in it xD
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