Learning to Fly

When I was first learning how to be a good photographer I had the opportunity to spend time in the Butterfly Gardens at the Minnesota Zoo. What an amazing place! This was an enclosed garden full of beautiful plants and lots of different butterflies. Many caterpillars munched on leaves and there were several stations with maturing chrysalis. It was warm, almost steaming, but what caught my attention was that although there were several people walking the brick laid paths admiring the different species, it was quiet, reverent. 

One landed on my Mom’s shoulder, flapped its wings a few times then flew to the next flower. Colorful dots darted above our heads and I snapped shot after shot. These are three of the pictures I took that day.  I marveled at the Lords creative abilities. I have always loved butterflies, but this experience started a love affair.  I tried to imagine how much fun it must have been for Heaven Father and Jesus Christ to create these beautiful, graceful, delicate creatures.

Relatively unattractive caterpillars wrap themselves in a tedious process and emerge an amazing new creature full of color with new abilities. As humans we too have this opportunity. We can take ourselves from the place we are, wrap ourselves in all things good with the atonement of Jesus Christ and emerge a new incredible creature with beauty and abilities we didn’t know possible. The Atonement, or “at- one- ment” gives us wings to fly and color to vibrate.  Imagine the happiness it brings the Savior when we partner with him and turn into what we are meant to be.

Understanding and using the atonement is a lifelong process. Part of the process is finding a way to grow closer to our Savior so we can understand Him and become like Him. Girls Camp is an opportunity to do just that. Turn off the world, put aside the everyday, and as our Stake Young Women’s President Cari Ladd said this week, “Fully commit to the camp experience.”

Let the Girls Camp experience become part of your chrysalis! Commit to the experience and I promise you will grow closer to your Savior, learning to hear the Spirit easier and feel the love of your Heavenly Father in a way that is only possible at camp. 

Join us ladies, let’s learn how to fly!

-Susan Lee
Assistant Camp Director

Let's STAND!

  Standing in Holy places can be literal like standing in the Temple,  but it is also a state of mind, an attitude and a way of life. Where ever we find ourselves we can make it a Holy place. Come to camp this year and tell us how YOU stand!

Whoo! Whoo! Leaders!!

Are you ready?

Since 1912, many Young Women camps have been established and dedicated all around the world. A camp with the most basic and simple accommodations can become a sacred place where the Spirit of the Lord is present, where daughters of God put the principles of the gospel into practice, and where the glorious blessings of nature are appreciated in happy ways.

All over the world, young women like yourselves are enjoying the experience of camping. In Africa, one of the first camps was held at a chapel, where the young women slept on the grass and learned to cook on an electric stove. In other places, camp is held on the beach or in the jungle or in the mountains. Wherever camp is held, one thing is sure: young women love to go to camp! When asked about the favorite part of the Young “Camp!” Why is this a favorite? What happens at camp that makes this such a memorable experience?

Camp has always been a favorite activity because it is at camp that you can establish a mini home. Your tent becomes your home, and there you can gather all the essentials you need to be happy and comfortable and progressing. At camp you can discover that the Lord is great. He has provided this beautiful earth for us to enjoy and preserve. At camp, you learn that you really don’t need much to be happy. You leave your makeup and music behind and learn to become self-sufficient. You learn the importance of a strong, healthy body so you can climb mountains and swim in the ocean or in streams. You learn that the scriptures can speak to you very personally, and you also experience what it feels like to be still and to listen to the song of a bird or to the voice of the Spirit, sometimes for the first time.

---ELAINE S. DALTON

Fourth Year Big News!

Hey Fourth year girls, BIG news!!! Fourth year high adventure this year will be during camp! On Tuesday you will be leaving camp with me and taking an adventure I promise you will never forget and will remember forever! I am sooooooooo excited about this adventure, and trust me, you would be too IF I were allowed to tell you, which I'm not. SO you will just have to come to came and find out.