Our Third Week

This has been another busy, wonderful week!  Most days were full of work fixing up the camp in preparation for the Open House on May 19th and the Opening of camp on May 21.


Team Leaders, Course Leaders and Neighbors.

    Now that we have our assignments we are members of the Challenge Course Team.  Our team leaders are Elder and Sister Edwards.  They served on the Challenge Courses last year and really know what they're doing.  They are very organized and it's a good thing because there is enough work to be done to keep us all busy for the next two weeks.

      Our Course Leaders for Challenge Course 1 are Elder & Sister Duehlmeier. I'm thankful for their patience with us.

     Mike & I have been assigned Challenge Course 1 with Elder and Sister Olsen, who are also our next door neighbors.  They are "newbies" like us.  We will serve on Challenge Course 1 until May 26th.  At that time we will move to another of the five courses for two weeks and on to another course each two weeks for the remainder of the summer.  Each course is a little different and has a different Course Leader couple.

 
                    
Monday - Friday April 30 - May 4    We spent the week cleaning up the courses from the winter storms.  We all met at the different courses and spread wood chips on the trail and in the challenge areas.  With 16 couples working together the work was fun.  Mike worked as hard and tried to work harder than everyone.

TENDER MERCY - Mike raked, shoveled, pushed wheelbarrows, dug post holes and stained posts for 4 days.  His back was strong and he didn't feel any discomfort. 

The women worked right along side the men and it was full of fun. 
We also spent two hours each morning discussing the gospel principles that can be learned on the challenge courses and our role in facilitating the discussion.
Saturday May 5   This was our Prep-day.  I cleaned the cabin and did laundry.  We drove down to Heber City to run errands for a few hours.

      At 5:00 pm Joe, Katie, (& Megan) drove up to camp.  Joe and Mike set up the TV antenna.  We now have great reception which will be nice in the evenings when we're to tired to move.
We drove down to Midway for dinner at a great pizza place.  We had a good visit and then Joe & Katie left to drive back to St. George.   
Sunday, May 6  We had church again in Heber City.  When it warms up we will have church on the mountain in one of the pavilions.  This morning it was 33 degrees as we drove down the hill.
The coming week will be full of more preparation and training.  I bought some weights to improve my upper-body strength.