This week was girls camp for our stake. It was quite late in the year because the stake leaders wanted to hold it at the Johnson Farm campground in Hiram, OH, and this was the only week that the campground was available. The campground is not huge, but large enough to host about 100 people. It's about 2 1/2 hours away from our house. It is located on the farmland behind the historic farmhouse where the Prophet Joseph lived for a time with the Johnson family, and where several sections of the Doctrine and Covenants were received. Subsequently, it was a very spiritual place for the girls to have camp this year. We were able to secure two large tents for our girls to use, and they enjoyed being able to 'bunk' together.
Each camp site housed multiple wards/branches, so our girls were together with a number of others. They had a shared pavilion, and the whole stake ate together at the main campground building.
I was only at camp for two of the five days, but it was evident that the girls all had an excellent time and that the camp was well planned. Here is a shot of the girls with their camp group, including girls from Waynesburg and Wheeling. Julie, our ward's camp leader, is in the back row. The girls love her.
Here is Allie making hamburgers for dinner one night.
This is a view of the road leading from the campground back toward the Johnson farmhouse.
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