This girls camp is something that I'm never going to forget all the days of my life, i didn't want to go, in fact i almost did not. Until that small spirit inside of me said "Talia forgive and go", so i did. I packed my bags prayed and i got on that bus little did i know that this one week, this hard testimony building emotional week would change everything... I remember the first night was the hardest i was home sick, wet from the canoes ,and cold the only person that i was super close to that Monday night was Heavenly father or so i thought. We were told to lay there and look and the stars without speaking so Mae, Liesl, Melissa, and I walked over and laid down Mae laid next to me and i was on the end.I remember thinking this is so ridiculous i need to sleep until i saw the heavens above me and remembered all the times i talked on the phone with Bryan looking at the stars saying someday we'd go to the moon. Then the devotional started and she told us to pick a star and pretend it was us, and she told us she knew what it was like to feel so alone in a world so big but if we use the north star (Heavenly father/scriptures) we would find our way home... I started crying it was one of the most touching emotional things i had ever been told and at that moment i had felt alone until Mae grabbed my hand and held it and
i remember her saying"Your not alone i love you forever" From that night on Mae has been someone who is my north star... "A" camp was nothing what we had expected it to be, Melissa and i fixed a friendship that we thought was way beyond repair and Liesl and i became eternal friends. I know these three girls are why I was sent to "A" camp. I'll never forget our last night up at "A" camp we had to do a night hike and we were told it was required. I remember every girl crying
that night all saying that we couldn't do it because we were to tired and to weak. All of us made it up that hill with our personal golden banner and written on it was a virtue we wanted to work on or strengthen. I remember thinking i couldn't do it and on the way up without thinking i grabbed Melissa's hand and we walked all the way up together and didn't let go. When we made it to the top it was pitch black and we sat there with the sweet spirit so strong, there was a devotional and each girl was told to walk down alone Melissa, Liesl, Mae and I hugged and right before we separated Liesl whispered "Don't forget, WE can do hard things". As i walked down the mou
ntain i saw the virtues glowing ahead of me and i remember the one that really stuck with me was "A daughter of God has faith" I will always remember laying there at night with those three girls and I don't think i will ever forget they way we laughed and cried or the ways we picked each other up and held each other together and the only reason why we did is because "We can do hard things!"
This girls camp is something that I'm never going to forget all the days of my life, i didn't want to go, in fact i almost did not. Until that small spirit inside of me said "Talia forgive and go", so i did. I packed my bags prayed and i got on that bus little did i know that this one week, this hard testimony building emotional week would change everything... I remember the first night was the hardest i was home sick, wet from the canoes ,and cold the only person that i was super close to that Monday night was Heavenly father or so i thought. We were told to lay there and look and the stars without speaking so Mae, Liesl, Melissa, and I walked over and laid down Mae laid next to me and i was on the end.I remember thinking this is so ridiculous i need to sleep until i saw the heavens above me and remembered all the times i talked on the phone with Bryan looking at the stars saying someday we'd go to the moon. Then the devotional started and she told us to pick a star and pretend it was us, and she told us she knew what it was like to feel so alone in a world so big but if we use the north star (Heavenly father/scriptures) we would find our way home... I started crying it was one of the most touching emotional things i had ever been told and at that moment i had felt alone until Mae grabbed my hand and held it and 
i remember her saying"Your not alone i love you forever" From that night on Mae has been someone who is my north star... "A" camp was nothing what we had expected it to be, Melissa and i fixed a friendship that we thought was way beyond repair and Liesl and i became eternal friends. I know these three girls are why I was sent to "A" camp. I'll never forget our last night up at "A" camp we had to do a night hike and we were told it was required. I remember every girl crying
that night all saying that we couldn't do it because we were to tired and to weak. All of us made it up that hill with our personal golden banner and written on it was a virtue we wanted to work on or strengthen. I remember thinking i couldn't do it and on the way up without thinking i grabbed Melissa's hand and we walked all the way up together and didn't let go. When we made it to the top it was pitch black and we sat there with the sweet spirit so strong, there was a devotional and each girl was told to walk down alone Melissa, Liesl, Mae and I hugged and right before we separated Liesl whispered "Don't forget, WE can do hard things". As i walked down the mou
ntain i saw the virtues glowing ahead of me and i remember the one that really stuck with me was "A daughter of God has faith" I will always remember laying there at night with those three girls and I don't think i will ever forget they way we laughed and cried or the ways we picked each other up and held each other together and the only reason why we did is because "We can do hard things!"
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