Level II

It's official!  We are level II certified to work on the Challenge Courses.  It has taken a lot of work and over 200 hours to accomplish this.  And we love what we are doing!  We have had so many spiritual experiences.  We have also been permanently assigned to work CC1 and will be there for the rest of this summer.  We are working with the Poulson's, the Simonson's, and the Winterton's.  What a great group!

Last Saturday was my birthday, and what a wonderful day it was.  The Bollingbroke's brought me a birthday cake which we had on course before starting at 9:00 am. We had a YW special needs group in the morning.  One special young lady said she was going to climb for me because it was my birthday!  Another young lady was paralyzed from the waist down, but climbed up the pole and across the log with only her arms.  What an inspiration she was to me.

Elder Duerden belaying

In the afternoon session, we had a young mother who had Cerebral Palsy and her husband carried her everywhere.  We were able to do a reverse pull for her.  She didn't go up the course, but we hook her up at the ladder, a few men pulled her up to the top with a rope and then let go of the rope and she was able to zip.  It was an inspirational day!