Priesthood Incampment

Yesterday I went to the priesthood incampent up at the Ashton's



Ranch. The whole place is so breathtaking you just can't get over



it! There is a big pond with a large hill nearby it. There is a



big play set for children, but we all found that we were inhabiting



it. There were swings and trees, everything for the mind to feast



upon.



The barn is more like the shell of a barn but with a homey inside.



It is orginized and there are all sorts of anitiques to an old



water pump to a breathtaking colection of amazing old jewlery. How



could designers givin up the very thing they try to put in



accesories? Beauty. Oh please don't get me wrong. Some of our



jewlery is pretty also, but once I saw a necklace with a mold of a



gun for the pendent.



*Sigh*



The Worldly Things.



Anyway back to the subject...



That night after a dinner of "Clondike Chilly" Brad Wilcox came



and spoke to us. He was amazing. Funny and wise in his teachings.



After that we had Rootbear Floats, played on the hill in the dark



and went back to our campsite. Each one of our campsites for



different wards had a little sign sticking out from the ground that



had one of the first General Authorities of this Dispensation's



names on them.



Our bishop told us a story of Orson Hyde. It was really cold out



side but we bore our testimonies.



It was a really spiritual expeience for me and for others.



We went to bed at Eleven.

* * *

We awoke to the call of a trumpet.

We all straggled along for the flag cerimony and after that had a

breakfast of eggs and sausege. Yum. The sausege was a little hard

and cold, but it was down-able.

We had two more speakers, one of them was our stake presedent, then we had a few activities. First we acted out a story from the

Scriptures. My group's was David And Goliath. Next we went to the

other side of the barn and were paired up with partners. We had

to invent a Hog Call that we were both sound. We were blindfolded

and put in different lines of people. They led us around for what

seemed like hours and let us loose from our lines, which was a

relief because the person behind we was hanging me with my collor

of my shirt, and I was strangling the person in front of me. All

by accident.

When we were freed a thunder of Hog Calls erupted.

After a long period of time me and my partner finally found each

other.

My partner was a great guy and was happy about our call in the

form of a wolf's howl.

After that we went into the barn and wrote down our goals for our Duty To God books. THEN IT WAS LUNCH.

As I sat eating my Hot Dog outside some of us were called to help the men put up the tarp for the GIANT WATER SLIDE we were going to be doing as an activity. In about ten minutes it was ready for use! It was Heaven on this tool of recreation. Some people could reach the grass at the bottom of the slide but I couldn't.

Oh well...........

Then the side got a rip on it and we had to stop.

After a desert of Popsicles we went home. It was a very uplifting and spiritual experience for all of us.

~COLEMAN

:)