Camp Ritchie is just about my most faroite place in the world. I've got so many good memories there.
My sister is one of the girls there (she's a level 5), so it was super awesome being able to be there with her!
We got to do sooo many fun things like tubbing....
Canoeing
Paddle Boarding!
Team building
Arts and crafts
And Archery! Where I learned I've got skills like Katniss Everdeen!
Rock climbing, a personal fav. I already knew I had skills in this area... you can tell because I'm showing off by going down the wall like spider-man.
This is the beautiful view from the top of the rappel.
Me, after I just finished hopping down the steep rock (aka. the rappel)...
This is one of my brave girls who decided the rappel was so much fun, she'd do it twice! (It's a really steep rock and their are plenty of girls that wont go down at all because it scares them too much).
Me squeezing through a rock on the climb back up....
Everything here somehow ties back to a lesson in the gospel. We have an activity called the, "Faith Walk." Here the girls had to be lead blind by another girl in their level, while the leaders tried their very best to steer them off course. I wasn't very convincing as Satan.
In the first part, the girls were able to talk to and hold the hand of the girl they were leading. They knew as soon as I opened my mouth that I wasn't leading them down the right path. The other leaders knew how to be sneaky and were much better in playing their part. They would tell them things that were half truths so that it was more confusing to know what to believe and what not to believe. I'm a terrible lier, so I had to learn quick how to be convincing.
Second part, they were only allowed to talk.
By this part I had given up on telling them where to go, so instead I told them to stop and take a break. This was a much better tactic for me. By now, they all knew not to trust where their leaders told them to go, but they would listen to me if I told them they seemed dehydrated and were looking a little dreary. I would always be looking out for their health right?
Right.... kinda, well, no. I even got one girl to sit down. Her partner quickly told her that she was fine and not to listen to me. And she got back up mid squat.
Third part, they were not allowed to touch or talk.
The third was particularly funny because they would do things like clap, snap or click their tongue to tell their partner to turn, stop, or go. It is much easier to get girls off course when the communication is so easy to mimic. It was a lot of fun watching our girls figure out how to tell their partners which way they were suppose to go..... and even more fun when I was able to succeed in getting them off course so easily. They all made it to the end though.
There are so many ways to apply this activity to truths in the gospel. Each one of these girls has their hand raised to tell about something that relates this activity to Christ's teachings.
What I took away from this experience was a need to keep open communication with God so that I will be easier to guide down the right path. I definitely learned how tricky Satan can be. If one way to derail us doesn't work, he will find another. Even if it is telling us a million truths, just to get one lie in. He is always working to find a way to get us off course and I know that by keeping my relationship with God a good, strong one, I will be better at being able to tell which voice leads me down the right path and which one is taking me off course.
I love every one of these girls and I'm so glad that I get to spend this week with them! I learned a lot, got to do lots of fun things, and met some wonderful people.
Soooo glad I got that last minute call to come and be a second level leader!
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