Charlie Jenkins

Monday night we had a really fun evening.  We were treated with a catered dinner from BYU. Yum!! Then we went to our own personal concert by Charlie Jenkins.  He is from Vernal and has been the opening act for many famous country western singers like Charlie Daniels.  

Charlie Jenkins

Charlie dancing with Sister Jensen, the end of a dip!

Some of the missionaries dancing

Cabin Staining

The season is coming to a close and we are only working on the challenge course on Fridays and Saturdays.  We have a lot of family reunions and had the BYU girl's swim team on Friday.  The last few weeks we have been staining 1/4th of the cabins here in camp.  They need to be done every 4 years which saves the church over $40,000.  We were able to complete 36 cabins last week.  We would get up very early and start by 6:30 am.  The logs get too hot to paint by about 10:00 am.  The good thing is that we were done by noon or on many mornings even earlier.  Many hands make the work light.

Elder Duerden - sprayer, Elder Ashworth - mixer

The brushing crew ready to go! Sister Anderson, Balls, Terry, Taylor and Dameron

The taping crew, necessary before spraying

Elder Terry and Elder Duerden, ready to spray

Challenge Course 1

It has been an unbelievable year working with the missionaries on Challenge Course 1.  We were told that we would love all of these people by the end of the season, and they were right!  

Elder Moretti came to take our pictures for the history book, and we had a lot of fun doing it. There are several pictures, here are just a few.

Elder and Sister Duerden, Elder and Sister Polson, Elder and Sister Winterton, Elder and Sister Simonsen

Class Ropes Girls

On Thursday, we had the last of the young women on the mountain for the season.  As as result, we no longer get the class ropes girls here to help us.  They are trained young women that help us on each of the challenge courses.  So we said good bye for the year with a party.  We drove up to Moose Meadows and had dinner with these young ladies.  Hopefully some of them will be back next year, but i'm sure some will not.  

Most of the missionaries that work the challenge courses with the class ropes girls

Kayla, Julie, Elder Philips, Kaitlyn, Morgan and Jamie

Last week of Young Women

Last week was our last week of having young women in HVC.  All week was hard, most of the missionaries were emotional every time we talked to the young women.  We took several pictures on Thursday, August 13, 2015.  This is typical of what we do on the Challenge Course each day.

Elder Simonsen and Class Ropes girl, Kaitlyn

Elder Duerden and Elder Simonsen doing the belaying

Sister Duerden in the angel nest waiting for a young woman to start her zip

Sister Simonsen as the black roper

Sister Duerden and Sister Winterton helping the girls put on the harness

Young Women waiting for their turn on the high course, the zip line

Beautiful Grand Daughter

The most excitement this week was the birth of our grand daughter, Elisyn "Elie" Jo Turner.  Her dad wanted her to be born on his birthday, August 6th, but she wanted her own birthday and was born 59 minutes after midnight. It was a very long delivery taking almost 29 hours.  But she sure is worth it!  Mom and baby are doing well.  We are so happy to have Elie in our family!

Happenings of the week

We had an awesome week!  The young women were wonderful, we had a youth group on the weekend and some great families. 

 A couple of funny things happened; we had a code 3 in camp which means there has been a bear sighting.  We were excited to see a bear, but in talking to the young lady who reported it, it was Toby, the large wooden bear that they move all over the camp. 

 I had a young women climb the pole and come over the wire who was scared to death and crying, which wasn't funny, but when she got to me in the nest, she said she just couldn't do it, and would I please get the fire truck and get her down!  Sorry, that was not an option!

 It was fun to have Mike and Kai come up to camp on Saturday night.  They were able to do the Challenge Course and zip line, and we were all able to go Legacy Lake.  We are so proud of Kai climbing up the pole and across the wire.  When he got to me in the nest, he wasn't sure he wanted to go down the zip line.  I sort of had to help him.  But he had fun.

Grandpa and Kai decided to have a water fight, which ended up getting grandma wet!