We had the honour of being branch leaders at the Joseph Smith Encampment this year. We were the Nauvoo Branch and had 11 wonderful youth assigned to us. We discussed what we saw with each reenactment of the prophet's life with them. It was wonderful to have our niece, Taysia, be in our branch!
Once again, I forgot to take any pictures, except my camera. The Spirit there was wonderful! I personally, fell in love with Hyrum while I was there. What it would've been like to have a supportive brother like that, while going through all those struggles. I talked to "Hyrum" and asked what it was like to be the prophet's brother. We talked for a while. The thing that I got most from the conversation, however, was that we can't all be Joseph Smiths, but we can all be Hyrums. We can support, love, and pray for our prophet. We can also do our best by supporting our local leaders, and doing the very best of our own callings. It was so wonderful to have the Spirit testify that to me.
The very best part about this camp, was that I got to be at Kaia's very first young women's camp. It was so fun to see her there taking it all in. She was very sick with her allergies, but she was determined to not let the dampener spirits. I was so proud of her! Unfortunately, she was not in our branch, so whenever I had a chance to sneak a picture, she was not around. I did, however, sneak this very pathetic one of our ward's youth doing their reenactment. She is in the very back row on the left hand side in the burgandy bonnet. Kim is here running through the reenactment with them. She did a all of the coaching for a few of the reenactments and I was a very proud sister!
I did happen to take this one picture of Kia before we left. We also did her hair after this.
