The Fab 4 From Washington: Stake Youth Conference

Sunday, June 30, 2013

Stake Youth Conference

A couple weeks ago Steve and I had the opportunity to be chaperons at our Stake's youth conference. They held it at Fort Flaggler about 2 1/2 hour drive from here. The theme for the youth conference - "Stand" - standing for truth, standing in holy places, standing up for your standards, etc. was discussed at different times during the conference. Great theme.

We arrived Thursday morning at the church at 8:00 for the kick off and then we all piled into cars and off we went.

Steve and I were the adult leaders for a group of 10 youth. Here we are with our awesome group.

As part of the conference the kids attended 5 different workshops that were 40 minutes each. Steve and I taught one of the workshops. It was on "Preparing to be a missionary".

During our workshop we talked of learning, understanding and appreciating different cultures and perspectives and as part of the lesson, we had them play a game using chop sticks and Trix's cereal. They had to see how many Trix's they could eat in a certain time. It was fun watching them try to use their chop sticks.

Steve planned and ran most of the workshop. I did however have an important job of passing out the Trix's cereal!

This is me with another one of the chaperons...Maria. She is one funny girl and always a lot of fun to be around.

The second day we were there we had the opportunity to do some service. We walked a mile down the road to where there was an old military bunker. The kids got to clean and paint them to get rid of the graffiti and dirt. The kids had a great time while doing a lot of good service.