June 6, 2009
The call went out the Sunday before that they needed 20 people to go to the new church girl's camp outside of Laramie to do some more clean up before the real girl's camp season starts next week. Mar and I had other things to do - but we decided that this sounded like more fun. We got up at 6:00 AM and packed up and drove the 2 hours to the camp. You go up 287 until you get to a little one building community about 12 miles before Laramie called Tie Siding. Turn left - West - onto a dirt road and go 3 miles. Turn right onto another dirt road and go 2 miles and then there is the camp.
It is a nice camp. It is right at the bottom of the mountains, so as you drive in you are on the high plains, then just as the trees start, there is the camp. A lot of ponderosa and white pine. Aspens and some sage brush and some meadows. Truly a beautiful place. The church is improving the area for the Young Women. They already have cinder block outhouses and nice tent pads. While we were there, they were putting up the tents - brand new and very nice. They are building a pavilion, but it is not done yet. They have put in a little dam and made an nice lake - or pond.
Our job was to work a fire abatement program. There is a lot of downed, dead lumber on the property. We were to cut it up into campfire wood, stack it and burn the slash. There were at least 250 people there working. Our ward had 12 - one woman - that was Mar (and she had just gotten her stitches out the day before). one young man - and 10 old guys (all High Priests). It wasn't hot and there was a cool breeze. We just worked hard and got a lot done. After we ate lunch, we came home.
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I am so proud of you guys... and I am proud of you for putting up pictures- yay!
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