I Feel My Saviour's Love

One of my favorite things to do this summer has been to give the presentation, "I Feel My Saviour's Love".  Each sister that has this assignment comes up with her own presentation, with her own style, to share with the girls.  I was able to do a presentation at least once a week.  

 I was fortunate to mostly have wards, so the groups were small and manageable.  The stakes were more of a challenge.

I started my presentation by showing this picture of a little yellow flower growing in the rocks out on the parkway.  I asked them to tell me how it made them feel, what they thought of when they saw it.  I got a lot of different responses including lonely, alone, faith, determination, hope.  

  I played off of the responses and we had a discussion about the hard things we have in our lives- how do we become the person God intends us to be, what resources do we have to help us, etc.  

We talked about how they were a unique daughter of our Heavenly Father and how He had created them individually with a mission to discover and fulfill.  

We also discussed how the challenges we face help us grow stronger and help us discover who we are.  I showed them a geode and talked about how the crystals are formed from the adversity of the elements.  The same is true of us.  We are molded by the way we handle adversity and trials in our lives.  

I gave them three challenges:

1- Choose to be happy

2-Choose to be grateful

3-Choose to serve

At the end, I show them this picture of the little yellow flower a few weeks later.  It had reached up to the sun and reached down to the water.  It had reached the measure of it's creation.  As we reach up to the "Son" and reach deep for the "Living Water", we too will reach the measure of our creation.

We ended singing "I Feel My Saviour's Love", the camp theme song.

Each group was different.  Some were more receptive than others.  Some groups had a very special spirit about them. This was one of the highlight of this mission for me.

The Nephi 4th ward was one of our favorite groups.  They gave us each a candy lei as a thank you for coming to their camp.