Girls Camp 2019

Early in the year, Melissa R called me and said, "It's okay if you say no, but I wanted to say thank you for considering the position." I had no idea what she was talking about and I told her so. She then said, "you haven't been contacted by the stake yet?" And I replied, "No, I hadn't heard anything about any other callings or anything." She was so mortified and said the line of communication must have been confused and that she'd contact me later. So, for the next several days or maybe longer, I was sort of panicking. I knew she was called to be the Girls Camp director. But that's all I knew. Finally, after a week or two, a high councilor from the stake came over and "assigned" but not called me to the girls camp cook position, and asked if I'd accept. I was sort of relieved because I thought it would be assistant director or ward director or something. Though I discovered camp cook was a HUGE task it was more behind-the-scenes and I didn't have to deal with so much drama and activity planning. I was able to ask for some assistants. I had to beg to get 3. Sadly, one of them was unable to come up or help with the last month of planning because her husband was diagnosed with cancer. So, it was left to Sarah, Bev and I. Then, we had to switch camp locations completely, 2 weeks before camp. That was a stressful few days but there were miracles that occurred and camp ended up better than it would have. And it was very smooth year. But again, I only heard about some of the drama after camp....I was stuck in the kitchen so I didn't have to deal with much of it. But I also missed out on activities too. But...we got to see how the girls interacted around food! I really loved it.

Plus, it was a blessing to be up there with Jocelyn. She hardly spoke to me the 3 days we were there. She was so worried about the little things. I was shopping last minute for her toiletry and warm clothing type things. I was so consumed making sure I had my food stuff in order for the 120 people I was feeding I ended up leaving Jocelyn's last minute requests to the day of! She had an awesome time and it was nice to hear her bare her testimony on the last night at our ward meeting.

Last day, ready to go home!

Fortunately, though, the cooks didn't have to be up there until after lunch so we took our time getting packed up that morning.

Because this location was closer Sarah knew of a cute restaurant in a quaint town on the way up. We stopped for brunch. This is when my diet really went downhill, haha. 

Cafe Rio. We had DANG good food prepared for these girls!

Hawaiin Haystacks

We saw a black bear!

Bev with the big wooden spoon!

Overall, we had a blast. Surprisingly, the planning and preparation phase wasn't terrible. I had a fantastic committee. We really complimented each other well. Strengthening each other and helping each other out. It was pretty constantly busy, especially in May once all the paperwork was received from the girls. We had to work around several allergies and such. But it was overall an amazing and spiritual experience. I would do it again. It really helped that we were truly treated like queens. People were so willing to help us because they knew we would be working non-stop while at camp.  We didn't have to sleep in a tent. We got to use a real bathroom, and even shower!! We had a full kitchen with running water and a roof over our heads. We didn't have to use a fire to cook and had a single fridge plus a freezer. It was amazing!!