Goofy Girls

More often than not the young men in the Branch (or the world) are a bit goofy. On occasion you run across the young women being goofy. I found Brittany and Jamie practicing one Wednesday before mutual. I suspect that the young women do this in secret, and at girls camp.

Melons, Melons. Yum, Yum.

Brother Foster is well known for raising some of the most delicious melons around Madisonville. Victoria and I made a visit to his farm this afternoon to help pick and to learn a bit about raising melons. Thanks Brother Foster for all the help.

Cub Scout Blue and Gold June 24, 2009

Stacey worked long and hard with the Cubs and Webelos. There hard work really showed through at the Blue and Gold Awards Ceremony. Here are some of the pictures.

Stacey conducted.

Each scout had a part.

There program included a depiction of the creation. Those are not ghosts, they are light and darkness.

Separation of the waters and land.

The next one shows the scouts (and Evie, Tori, and John) being seeds. The one after is after the seeds have grown. There is a Primary song that they sang as they did the motions.

Awards.

Mothers Pins.

Some of the scouts creations.

Scout Camp 09-El Rancho Cima

We left for El Rancho Cima at 4am.

The View out of the back of my tent.

Aaron, Gene and a great view.

Tired, very tired.

The Swimming Hole

Pictures of the Blanco River

There were 700 scouts at camp this week. These are two other troops, a bit larger than ours, lining up for our final dinner on Friday night.

Hanging around the camp site.

Jake at the range. Not shown here, sorry, are pictures of KC, Andre', and Chris winning a camp wide shooting contest. Prize.... a watermelon.

THE PREY

THE PREDATORS

Gene, wore out, with the A/C cranked all the way up.

The mess hall.

CPR Orientation

Jake.... so cool!

The Climbing Tower

Virgil prepares to go up. Aaron and Josh helping.

Josh

KC

Aaron

Sleepy. Outside.

Lots of chess playing.

Where we had opening and closing camp wide campfire.

One big Cypress.

The Dam

Messy Tents. I think this year Kade took the title of messiest tent away from Chris. Imediatly below is Kade's tent.

Jakes tent.

Austin's Tent

Virgil's tent.

In spite of the heat we had a great time. I saw lots of improvement and development in the scouts and learned a little about each one of them. It went by so fast. Special thanks to Gene for stepping up and being our second adult. He did a great job. I can't thank him enough. Hey Gene, what are you doing next year about this time?

Be sure and ask the young men about their time at camp.