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I wanted to post a picture of were I went durning Thanksgiving.  Can you guess what show I like to watch?

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Last week, Ryan and I went to the Orange County Scout Camp at Lost Valley.� A Google satellite picture of the Schoepe Scout Reservation at Lost Valley – Grace side.� We had 34 boys from our Stake go to camp, which had a special LDS week.�We had Elder Dalton speak to the young men for Sacrament meeting and we had 800 boys from 16 stakes attend.� The LDS week had some extra events going on during camp.� Some of the�stakes created patches for the week and when the boys went to camp, they were able to�trade the patches.� There were also 16 trading cards that talked about Duty to God and the Methods of Scouting.� The boys all started with 16 of the same card and during the week, they were to meet other boys and try to collect a whole set of cards.� When they did, they received a souvenir coin for the week.� The boys could also receive a Duty to God patch for doing�7 items at camp that were requirements for Duty to God.� Our Stake Scout Chaplain had to leave camp early for work, and I was able to talk with boys about “Being Prepared with a Purpose”.��

The camp site is very large and the camp is divided into two sections, Grace and Irvine.� We camped in the Grace side, fairly close to the Grace pool.� The normal camp attendance is 500-600 boys.� Since we had 800 boys for LDS week, the camp had two dinning shifts for breakfast and dinner.� On Wednesday night, some members of the Mormon Battalion came by to show the boys what it was like to march and eat with the Battalion and at night they talked about what life was like for the Battalion.� On Friday, they had “For Strength of the Youth” games.� They had 16 different events for a stake to participate in and our Stake came in 2nd place.� Our stake hosted a catapult / trebuchet tournament were teams of 3-6 boys were to build a catapult, fire tennis balls, and tear down the catapult.� It was interesting to see that a lot of the boys need to practice their knots.

Here is Ryan waiting for Priesthood meeting to start.� Priesthood meeting was taught by Bishops from the stake and a member of the Stake Presidency.

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Here is the entrance to our camp.� We had almost 40 bikes parked.� At night you had to have a flash light so you did not trip over a bike.� Ryan had his three wheeler bike parked next to his tent.

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Here the boys have their stake camp shirts on.� Since we are in the Orange Stake, we have orange shirts.� The boys are playing baseball with a tennis ball in the camp site.

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Ryan and I are practicing to be solders in the Mormon Battalion.� Ryan is on the far left as the drummer.� I am second from the right in the orange shirt.�� They did not have enough muskets for everyone, so I had a shovel.

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Ryan received the Cupeno Pa’ Axwe (Honored Camper) Award for showing the true spirit of scouting for our campsite.

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Here is Ryan and Dillon, his tent mate, in front of their tent on the last day of camp.� The picture is dark because this was taken at 6am.� Some of the leaders and all of the boys were ready to leave camp and they got up at 5:30am to start packing.

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This is the start of the Russell Hunter Family blog.  I will be posting notes and pictures as they are available.

Russell