Young Women's Camp in Japanese was fun!

Hi, All. Thanks again for all the prayers and support. Most on the Prisbrey side are pushing to make it to Bear Lake at this time and our hearts are with you. We just returned from our 3-day long Stake Young Women’s camp. We went to support YSA whom we helped recruit and get adult leadership up to strength. Perhaps more correctly, we recruited YSA to be the leaders so we could go. This year for the first time they added reward-beads and necklaces, T-shirts (in orange), extra songs and skits, two evening campfire programs, daily quiet scripture time, evening devotionals tent-by-tent, and a number of other suggestions from Kandie and some of you—and had a blast. Our YSA outdid themselves in reaching out to the Young Women, teaching, leading, and guiding them. The pictures are 1) Kandie and me with our group at our final meeting after loading the cars and cleaning up.
2) What are chairs for? To fold and stack against the wall or as a table for iced tea (wheat-tea), of course. Certainly not for sitting in.
3) Kandie is encouraging two twelve-year olds, and the emerald forest shows up in this picture.
4) our home (tent) away from home— away from home.
5) We used wood-burning fireplaces—this example shows fried pork smoked over cherry-wood chips, two Dutch-oven cheese and chocolate chip cakes, and ever-present rice at the far end of the fireplace.
6) We did it the easy way. We made butter by shaking cream in a bottle until almost everyone was exhausted; then mixed bread dough and wrapped strands around sticks, and then cooked them over wood coals—hot bread and butter. Once again, the chairs in this photo are mostly used for holding bags and things, and not for people. Kandie and I have become quite agile and can join anyone on the floor or ground. Side note: the open-and-in-plain sight for-anyone to-use and-see-urinals are in the distant background. Would it bother you? It didn’t bother us.
Kandie also joined all the young women in the nearby hot-tub each night—a sulfurous hot-springs ‘Onsen’. (We don’t bother with swim suits or clothes, and the men’s section was partitioned off for us.) The correct term from the dictionary is… 慣した -- ‘get used to; become experienced; accustomed’.
The closing testimony meeting is still ringing in our hearts. One young non-member bore her testimony about the wonder of praying to and being heard by a Father in Heaven whose existence she never even suspected, and about how inspiring and encouraging was the Young Women’s theme. Another side note: the young women enjoyed taking turns helping Kandie memorize the Young Women’s Theme in Japanese (and she impressed the leaders when she memorized it from Kanji). Love, Dad (Keith)