The last activity was 3 stations run by each member of the
Stake Presidency. The first one was the Iron
Rod. They blindfolded the kids and led
them through a forest. The kids were
“tempted” by “bad angels” and “led” by “good angels.” They were told to hold on to the Iron Rod and
not let go for anything. We even told
them before they left not to let go for anything. The tempters told them lies like I will give
you a donut or the trail ends, you can let go now. Some of my kids were holding super tight and
wouldn’t even let go at the very end.
Others did let go, but eventually they were told that they could
“repent” and get back on the Iron Rod.
In the end, President Coppin was waiting with a hug and a piece of fruit
from the “Tree of Life.” Then the kids
came over with their families. It was so
neat to welcome each of our kids. The
only thing that took away from that special moment was that one of our children,
Chandler, decided not to participate. It
made me sad not to have him there with us.
We had a really good talk as a family about choosing the right in life
and not listening to those with the voices that are leading us astray. We talked about how much harder that is in
our real lives. It was a really
spiritual, amazing talk and possibly my favorite moment of Trek. The other two were talks by President Moss
and President Warning. President Moss
talked about rocks and how to overcome the rocks in our lives. The kids made necklaces with rocks. President Warning talked about how some of
the pioneers were allowed to pack only 17 pounds and asked what we would choose
to bring. He also asked what people
wouldn’t be able to leave behind- what is holding us back? He shared a story of one family who wouldn’t
leave their piano behind and the hardships that they endured because of
it. I’m pretty sure they ended up
leaving it in the middle of the trail too.
Next, we sent the kids off to have solo time, which is when they write
in their journals or read their scriptures or whatever they chose to do, they
just had to be by themselves. Well,
Cassie and Quintin went way back in the woods.
Quintin came back late and said he couldn’t find Cassie anywhere. We started looking and couldn’t find
her. We were feeling very worried. We looked all over for like an hour, way back
in the woods. Quintin and his friend and
I even said a prayer in the middle of the woods. It was a real comfort and we felt that
everything was okay. We went back to
camp and someone had found her. We both
hugged and started crying. Quintin
hugged her too. We were so glad she was
okay.
That evening, they brought us our watermelons that we won, in ice water! We hadn’t had ice water in days!! I think everyone was just as excited to get that, as the watermelons! The watermelons tasted so good! We ate one for dinner and one for breakfast! I even saw Grant eat a piece, and he doesn’t even like watermelon. We shared some with some friends- our daughter Riana, our captains, etc. We all helped prepare dinner. The boys got the water, prepared the charcoal, and dealt with the dutch ovens. The ladies (and some boys) helped peel the vegetables. We had a yummy soup. And for dessert… my favorite food on Trek… Dutch Oven Apple Crisp… Oh my goodness! I wanted to lick the dutch oven clean… LOL!!! It was that good!
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