"Dare to Shine" was our theme this year for youth
conference and it was so much fun! We had a dance on Friday night outside in our church parking lot, which seems lame but it was actually really fun. The skate provided us with glow sticks and they set up a couple of bonfire pits around us and they played really good music. It was cool too because for the last 30 minutes or so I was just swing dancing! After the dance we had ward devotional and then went to our host families house to spend the night.
On Saturday we went to the Canyonside preserve by our Stake Center and did a lot of fun service projects. My friends and I racked up all the loose brush around all of the front and under the trees where they have picnic tables set up. It was so much fun because we were able to see the beautiful trees and park that is right next to our houses! I forgot how beautiful that place is because I don't go down as much since I quit soccer. Anyways after the service project we went to another church building and we played a bunch of crazy fun games. One of the games was to "rescue" a dummy man that weighed 185 pound, 4 doll babies, and one stuffed animal dog from a "burning building". It was so cool because they blacked out all of the lights in about a quarter of the building and turned off all of the lights and had us search for the man, babies and the dog. It was so dark and we couldn't see anything (I actually bumped heads with one of my friends and feel on the floor pretty hard because of it haha)! We also had a really fun obstacle course set up, which we had to do with blindfolds on, and we had to build a fire from scratch with a small group of our friends. After the games we were able to go home about two hours to get changed for the end part of the day.
On Saturday night we returned in our church clothes and had a nice dinner. We also had a couple of parents who were taking pictures throughout the whole conference and put together a slideshow for us to see. The main mom taking pictures actually was one of my friends mom which was really funny because there ended up being a lot of photos of our group. It was really funny to see all of the pictures and be reminded of everything we did. After we watched the slideshow we had an amazing testimony meeting. I really liked it because everyone kept their testimonies short but to the point. It was amazing because the spirit was so strong and each time someone bore their testimony the spirit just became stronger. Youth conference this year was by far my favorite one! Oh and I forgot to mention our shirts were really bright haha!
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It was awesome!!
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