I got called to be a Young Woman advisor about 2 weeks before our ward was planning to go to girl's camp. The YW President, Angela Sorenson, asked me if I would be able to go up there with the girls. They were planning to go up to Aspen Grove for a very short winter camp. I was reluctant to go because I didn't know many of the leaders, and even fewer girls. But I decided to go anyway.
It turned out to be a lot of fun! First of all, I wasn't anyone's mom. I didn't have to worry about any motherly responsibilities. Also, Aspen Grove was in charge of all the food, so we didn't have to spend all our time cooking and doing dishes. I was just able to hang out with the girls and get to know the leaders.
We did a ropes course one day. I was one of the only leaders who participated.
We also went snowshoeing. I was following a group of the older girls and they wanted to climb up on an outhouse. I told them I would boost them up there. They seemed completely surprised that a leader would let them do something like that. But I didn't see anything wrong with it because they weren't damaging anything.
Then the girls jumped off the roof into the snow. But their feet sank pretty deep into the snow and they were stuck for quite a while. I had to help dig all of them out. We ended up being gone a lot longer than the other people snowshoeing.
I also got to know another leader, Diane Hardy, really well. She is an older lady, but super fun.
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While I was gone, Isaac took the kids to the cabin. They played in the snow and checked on Isaac's bees.
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