I love my calling

At my church I have a calling to help the Young Women in our ward. The Young Women's program is an inspired program for girls between the ages of 12-18 to come together for spiritual instruction and to bond socially and serve others.   We have a lot of fun together.  You can click on this link to learn more about this program: https://www.lds.org/callings/young-women?lang=engI was able to be a guest speaker at a conference for the Young Woman.  I was inspired by this little book called "Be The Chocolate Chip".  

It is more of a booklet, so it is a quick read (which I highly recommend).  Here is a link to see more details about the book: http://www.amazon.com/Be-Chocolate-Chip-Jen-Brewer/dp/0983514003

Each year, the Young Women go to "Girl's Camp".  We have so much fun going to the mountains and camping out for the week. In order to pay for camp, we do a fundraiser. This year we decided to make cinnamon rolls.  One of the women in our church, and also a mother of one of our young women, has connections to the high school cafeteria so she helped us make them at a professional level.  It was fascinating to watch the process.  As you can see here, she's a pro- no measuring needed!!

 That is a huge vat of brown sugar and butter to roll out on the dough.

The girls created an assembly line of rolling dough, spreading dough with "goo", rolling up the rolls, slicing them, putting them on the pans in the steamer  and finally putting them in the ovens.

That's not where the work ends!    This is not even all the boxes that needed to be assembled to fill our cinnamon roll orders

  

 After the rolls were baked, another assembly line was created to assemble boxes, fill them with the baked rolls, then finally wrap them with saran wrap.  A third assembly line was created to fill containers with frosting.

 Finally the work in the kitchen was done and we hit the roads to do door to door deliveries!

All that hard work from our fundraiser paid off when we all had a great time at Girls' Camp! We cook on our own meals on top of a fire we started on our own.  We sleep in a tent that we put up ourselves.  We have devotionals, skits, song practice, testimony meetings, hikes, canoeing and so much more!  It is such a fun way to feel the love of our Heavenly Father by being surrounded in nature.  The beauty of the earth reminds us that we are known and our Father in Heaven wants us to be happy.  I always come home feeling such a spiritual high.