Sunday

Today I was released from Activity Days—it was a short two months but I really enjoyed it and will really miss it. Really, really miss it!!

I think this Stake Assistant Camp Director might be a little more involved than I thought. I was supposed to have a big meeting today but it was canceled due to a sickness—I’ve been reading things and watching a video to be prepared to share thoughts and feelings about camp and a theme and how to use the Laurels to help plan. I am excited for camp—it will be an adventure I have never done before but I am excited to learn and grow from it too!

Sacrament Meeting was amazing again today! I love when the meeting is focused so much on the Savior. I need to rewatch the Christmas video the church put out last year, “The Gift”. Our sacrament meeting today was all about that video. I loved how Travis Hancock (Ray and Carol Hancock’s son from Hooper—his family is the one moving that we helped this week—they are moving to Yuba Lake—he will be the ranger down there), talked about Jesus Christ’s return. He shared an experience from his mission in Louisiana where there was a huge religious fair of some kind. I guess our church’s booth was right next to the Catholic booth. In our booth, they had a huge picture of the Savior’s Second Coming (the one with Christ in the white robe coming through the clouds) and next door they had a picture of the crucifixion—more people were drawn to the LDS booth because of the bright, happy picture—we need to focus on His return and invite Christ into our everyday lives (that was Travis’ message). I loved how he said, “The Atonement is real if we allow it!”. So true!!

Mallory, Hayley and Brittney sang with all the senior Primary girls today with the Primary Presidency. They sang “A Child’s Prayer” which really brought the spirit more! I love the Primary songs and I love listening to children sing it—you can tell they feel it and know it!

Our last speaker was Rachel Trommlitz who just returned from my Aunt Vicky and  Uncle Steve’s mission (she never met them—she was always in other areas). She spoke on “the Gift” video too. She talked about Discover Jesus, Embrace Jesus and Share Jesus—it was so good and so focused on the Savior!!