Yay for EFY!!

Ok I'm sorry family (Kristi and Laura) that I have not updated anyone in forever but life has been so crazy!! Efy is going GREAT! I am loving every minute of it. Everyday is jam packed with activites for the youth and I had no idea how much work and time counselors put into these weeks! I'm so tired everyday but it is so worth every second.
My first week was a bit of a challenge. There were 44 youth total, so 4 counselors and a group of 10-12 youth in each. I had 12 girls and all of them were so cute! Our guys in the other hand were a bit hard to deal with. At efy we like the guys to escort the girls wherever we go and for some reason our guys wanted nothing to do with our girls which really broke my heart because that's something everyone looks forward too. So there was that then there were 2 boys that liked to sneak off and not tell anyone where they were going. That made things really scary at times since we are responsible for these youth.
Thursdays are the counselors favorite days at efy. It's where we get to hear them bear their testimonies of the gospel and see the light in their eyes. It's a very rewarding day for the long hours we as counselors put in.
Here are some pictures from that week. The first one is my whole company. Companies are what we call when both the boys and girls are together. This week we were called "Away to Escape."

This is a picture of my group of girls.

Here I am with my other counselors Mellissa, Jake and Brett.

My second week was so much fun! I loved all my youth and my co-counselor Dan was so fun to work with. It was a very small session. There were only 18 youth in our group total. It was exciting because I had Jon Schmidt's son Spencer in my group! He was such a sweetheart. I also was able to meet Jon Schmidt. How cool that was! But our boys were so sweet and just listened and escorted the girls. It was a very fun, easy week. I loved it! Here are some pictures from this past week.
Here's our group. We were called "Raised in Incorruption" this week.

This is my co Dan and Spencer Schmidt!

So now I'm about to start my 3rd week and I am sad that it is going by so fast but I am excited to meet my next group of girls. I can't wait for this week. I have met so many counselors and have made great friends so far and most of them are working this week so it's going to be twice as fun :)