Ward Campout!

I don't know if I have mentioned how awesome our Ward is here, so I will. We are blessed to have such a wonderful ward family. Everyone is so close and whenever there is a new family they welcome them with open arm. It will be really hard if I ever had to move out of our ward. With that said, after having been in this ward for seven years, we finally had our first ward camp out. It was so much fun. Riley pretty much spent the whole time running around with his friends from the ward, and Abbie even got to spend some time with her best friend as well.
We stayed at the stake campground. All of the campsites are named from people in the Book of Mormon. Their is even a strait and narrow path over the River Sidon, and The Promised Land were you can get together and have a bonfire or play games.

We all got together that night and roasted marshmallows and sang songs. All the young women in the ward led the songs. It was fun watching them together. Than Brother Nelson, from the bishopric, got up and gave a small message and prayer. I loved what he had to say. He talked about how he got ready to come over to the Promised Land when he realized he had forgotten his flash light. He figured it would be okay because he could see the camp fire and all the flash lights, from the ward members, that he could find his way. Even with this guiding light he still stumbled and tripped over rocks and pot holes. He than talked about how much easier it would have been if one of us with a flashlight had come and helped him to the campfire. He said that our ward is a shining beacon and how we can be those people who go out and help guide those who may be stumbling through and tripping over those pot holes and rocks of life.

I am posting a slide show of our ward camp out pictures. At the end there is a picture of Riley next to a pile of bear pop. At least that is what everyone said it was.



This is a video of the kids crossing the strait and narrow path over the River Sidon. Notice how Riley just walks across no problem at all, while Abbie holds nice and tight to the iron rod. Of coarse Riley did have his walking stick with him. Makes you wonder sometimes.