My Girls

Girls Camp was at the end of June and I was able to go for a couple days.  My Young Women are crazy!  They have a ward tradition of "ragging" their hair. You could always find them in the crowd because of the colorful tiny rags spiking out of their tightly wound hair.  About half of the girls tied their hair in rags the night before camp, then took them out on the last day (see end pictures).

The Stake really outdid themselves.  I remember when I was a young woman our stake did some elaborate events and firesides, but nothing compared to this:
They made the biggest structure at camp, a two walled pavilion, look like the Kirtland temple with white sheets and cut fabric to look like windows, complete with a steeple!
This was pretty amazing, too.  It was a precise historical replica of the tabernacle from the old testament.  They had the outer court with it's altar and washing table, the inner court complete with finely woven material, altar, and shewbread, and two sisters dressed in white dresses guarding the holy of holies (which we couldn't see, exactly, but they had a light behind the ark of the covenant so you could see it's silhouette through the veil).  It was amazing.  It was all part of a temple fireside where the girls walked around each station and learned about the history of temples and the restoration of the church.

On the last day of camp the girls took out their rags and afro-ed their hair.  I guess it's a ward tradition!  It was pretty fun.  Some of the hairdos got pretty big!