Week Number 23

Wow!  I'm a little dizzy.  

This week was such a change from everything we've been doing all summer.  

     Since April we've been outside, very active and challenging ourselves.  This week was spent in the office.  There were challenges but they we more in trying to remember SO MANY responsibilities for next year.  I'll be busy all winter with preparation work for 2013.

This is my desk  - next year.

Mike was outside much more than me.  He was still working on staining cabins and his responsibilities next year will be with groups serving outside.

We did get to work on Challenge Course a couple of times, and we had a special guest.   Our special guest was the mother of our Challenge Course Team leader.  She was at camp celebrating her 90th birthday and brought her entire family  She rode the swing twice and loved it.

Happy 90th birthday -- Putting on harness for swing.

On Sunday afternoon our District took a 10 mile ATV ride to the outback.  We visited an old Sheep Herders cabin that is being refurbished by the camp missionaries.  The couple that built it in 1939 and spent their summers in it came to the mountain and explained it's history.

Sheep Herders Cabin

LESSON LEARNED THIS WEEK:  You've got to get in the driver's seat.

    When we learn to drive we can read every book on the subject, watch videos, talk with experienced drivers, but until we sit behind the wheel in the drivers seat we will not know how to drive.   We can read every cookbook and eat delicious food, but until we actually cook we don't know how to create the dishes.  We can read every parenting book and talk with other parents, but we finally "get it" when we have our own children.

     We can read the scriptures, listen to inspirational speakers, and study the gospel of Jesus Christ.  But, until we LIVE it's precepts of love, obedience, kindness, sacrifice, etc. we have not and can not become true followers of Christ.