Auxiliary Retreat

I am so grateful for a Stake President that is kind enough to let me come and finish up this chapter with the Auxiliary training and Retreat.
This is my absolute favorite time when we all go up to Heber Valley girls camp and spend a night of being with the leaders and being feed by the spirit. This year was no different.

The Theme: Hands of Heaven (serving one another)

speaking of being feed.....Gerald and Joan are the absolute BEST. The food is always so good. Magna is so blessed to have them in there stake. I did ask him if he would consider cooking for us here in Tooele if we ever had the need ;) It make it so nice to have the food and clean up all taken care of. I will have to thank the Stake Presidency and my sweet husband too. They were right there with them in the serving and cleaning up.

Kandace and Jenny were the first ones up there and ready to get started. They are so cute!

We had some activities for them.

1st was the service jar that the Primary put together. It was awesome! When they got up there the were to take a piece of paper with a service on it and carry out that service by the following day.

2nd was crafts, cards and a family home evening glove

3rd was talking about hands and serving one another which ended up with painting each others fingernails. Kris did a great job talking about how our hands serve.

The colors came from girls camp so you will notice the nice green polish that Jill is wearing

I love Kristen! She came up to play the piano for us. She did so good. I wish I would have taped the song the they sang. I could have sworn that angels were singing.

Danika, Rachel and Rainbow sang "Hands of Heaven" These are the angels.

Our Stake Presidency did the question and answer time with the ladies

Our Guest Speaker was Maria Covey Cole. Author of Contentment. She did such a great job. I actually went to school with her from Wasatch Elementary to High school. I felt like she touched on subjects that were really needed to talk about. It was so fun to hear her. What a gracious lady she is. She was just put in as Stake Young Women's President in her stake. Those are some lucky young women.

Our gift this year was the bottles of soap with the loving hands, giving hands etc written inside the bottles. They turned out very cute.

We also read them a story and had the ladies put their names in the hands of Christ. Pres Rushton gave a blessing to all the ladies at the end. I wish I could even begin to explain to you the feeling of the sweet spirit that was there. I didn't even want to say anything at the end for fear that spirit would leave. It was beautiful.

Then we split up and had a cabin for games, a cabin for movies and a cabin for sleep. Most of the ladies ended up in the cabin with games. I went and watched "suits on the loose" and went to bed.

The mountains are filled with color right now. Oh my...it was beautiful!

Next morning was breakfast, auxiliary training and testimony meeting

yummy breakfast

We stayed at Lucy Mack. The Smith family had come up a few year before and planted trees for Lucy and each one of her children. These are some of the trees that Kris and Desi were checking out.

Here we had testimony meeting. I didn't want it to end. I love these ladies. I will miss being a part of the Magna Central Stake. I will always hold them very close to my heart. Thanks to all of you that came and were a part of these years retreat. My life has been blessed because of knowing you.

Til we meet again.........