One of the young women Raquel was missed and Sunkist oranges could use this picture for their ad campaign.
If you look closely at the blue hoodies you'll see the logo on them. On the picture on the right you'll see me wrapped up in tape. The tape was used as one of the team building activities.
As part of the tape wrapping activity the team of youth tried to stick as many cotton balls as possible to win this contest our team got 460 something cotton balls stuck on the tape. The middle picture shows a team building activity where the team needed to go through a spider web but only one team member could go through the same web opening. Josh was chillin' so I said hello to him.
Another team building activity including moving the team across an imaginary lava field, where they could not remove themselves from a board. Then there was a team building event where the youth need to move a plastic garbage can outside a circle without using their hands or arms.
On Friday, March 28th my oldest three daughters and I headed off for Youth Conference at Timber Lakes which is to the East of Heber, Utah. The theme of the confernece was being COMMITED to standing STEADFAST and IMMOVABLE in living the gospel of Jesus Christ. (Actually Justine didn't come until Sat. morning as she was having a Senior dinner dance.)
The theme is based on Mosiah 5:15 - "Therefore, I would that ye should be steadfast and immovable, always abounding in good works..."
We left Friday at approx. 4 pm and took about 60 youth and 12 leaders to a cabin at Timber Lakes East of Heber, UT. One of our neighbors (ward members), volunteered their family cabin for youth conference. The cabin wasn't your ordinary cabin, all youth and adults were accommodated. When we arrived at the cabin, we were greeted the by the smell of tri tip steak and Jerry and Sue Rapier, who volunteered their services to cook and do the team building activities. After everyone got settled I did some games with the youth. i.e. cards on their backs, four on a couch, fruit baskets upside down and adjectives with their first name. Next, Johnny Harline spoke to the youth, he played the guitar and spoke about commitment. BTW... HARLINE is still Open!!!
Saturday, we arranged to use a ward building in Heber to do games and team building activities. The team building activities were related to the youth about real life. It was explained also about how the youth could make a difference in others lives. Saturday, evening the Young Women went to Heber to watch a church general broadcast. The boys went sledding and snow boarding down one of the roads in the Estates. We had a fantastic speaker, Sat. night Shawn Rapier came up and spoke to the young men. Later we had a testimony mtg. and it was great being there when some of my children bore their testimonies.
Sunday, we got an early call, one of the husbands called because they were worried about their wife getting home with their car. It was snowing, and had snowed about six inches at the cabin overnight. I got up all the deacons and took them with me in our Durango. I led out so the Young Women's leader could follow with their car behind me and get home safely.
If you are planning a Youth Conference I would love to share with you what we did.
