Youth Temple Trip South Carolina Temple

Youth temple trips are always pretty special and amazing! We also get to know the youth a little bit better on these trips! Our temple is a little less than 2 hours away. Not great but not bad either! I definitely miss being 20 minutes away from the temple like we were in St. Louis and I'm grateful that we do not have to travel 2.5 hours to the Boston Temple when we lived in NY! So count your blessings each time you  have them but always so grateful that there is a temple nearby where ever we live!

In our other wards we had always been so careful and cautious not to add undue stress or cost to families pertaining to money for food after. But, I was told we did not have to worry about families in this ward. I think extra money out of pocket should always be a concern.

After the temple we just went our separate ways. I like the youth to gather briefly and share if they had any special experiences, especially if they happen to be fresh in their minds! The youth seem to transform when they are all in white. I truly love to see them in the temple!

I love serving and doing ordinances. It is such a blessing and wonderful service to do.

Christmas Youth Joint activity

Our Christmas activity was planned by Nicole Gubler! It was a lot of fun and the youth made temples out of gingerbread houses and had to have them resemble the LDS temples. We also had a white elephant swap which I quickly learned that full bags of candy were top priority!!

Glow in the dark Volleyball

You would never know by my pictures that the youth had a glow in the dark volleyball night! The Miamaids were in charge and they bought a lot of glow sticks and put them all over the net so you could see the net and taped them all down the court so you could see the boundaries! They also had these great glow sunglasses and had a glow in the dark volleyball! The only thing I would change is have two balls, one charging in the light while you are playing with the other! Obviously, I enjoyed the sunglasses a little too much!

YM BasketBall- undefeated until the champion game! Took Second place over all!

These boys were much like the girls collectively they did amazing and they played hard good ball! They had very few extras and some games were played with not enough players! They did so well and of course, our boy Dash was the highlight of a few great plays and shots! 

YM YW joint Activity- Talent Night

 This actually turned out to be a good night! We have many talented and funny youth! They said they would like to do it again and everyone was so polite! I was only sorry I wasn't able to take more pictures!

YM/YW joint activity making temples

Our joint activity was to make gingerbread Temples. It was a fun activity and they also had to bring a gift that was under $5 so they could have a white elephant exchange. We could see the creative skills at work. Each team was given a temple they needed their gingerbread temple to resemble!

YOUTH Temple Trip- Columbia SC Temple

Bill and I both chaperoned another youth temple trip! what a great an amazing experience to be at the temple but to be at the temple with the youth! I loved it. We have to travel about two hours so the moments are different. We stopped to eat after the temple. I would like to see it more connective between each other. Maybe, we could gather outside the temple briefly for a brief testimony meeting for anyone who may have had a special experience and wanted to share or just gather for a small moment of breath before we rush back in the car and on our way home again.  I think it would be nice.