To start it off for my first blog, I'm going to talk about EFY! EFY stands for "Especially For Youth". EFY "is a week long youth-oriented seminar focused on fellowship and teaching the principles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). It is the largest LDS-oriented summer camp, attracting over 50 thousand attendees every year at locations around the world" ( thanks to wikipedia). Now an interesting thing about it is that it isn't just for LDS youth. Plenty of non-LDS youth go too. Anyways, I went to EFY this week. and it was amazing, not as amazing as last year, but still plenty fun. So on monday, we kicked it off with FHE activities, which were a lot of fun. On tuesday, we started classes. It was really cool `cause our teachers, Brother Bluth and Brother "IDK"* were both hyperactive and funny. Brother "IDK" sounded and looked like Seinfeld, and Brother Bluth pulled out some massive medieval weaponry. Hahahahahah, it was pretty cool. But the lessons were also awesome. After dinner, was the dance. The dances at EFY are better than the stake or the ward dances, in friendliness, and music, but lacks in decoration. Good thing for me though, i don't care about decorations. So on to the next day, Wednesday. On Wednesday, we had more classes. The activity for the night was.... GAMES AND CHEER-OFF! At 6:00, each company made a banner, a cheer, and displayed their awesomeness in the games. "Got Soul", our company, rocked and rolled, and showed their soul in their cheer. After the games and whatnot, it was time for pizza!!! each company ordered like, 7-10 pizza's, and a variety of drinks, such as Gatorade, Sprite, and Dr. Pepper. Everyone went crazy and had a good time. Thursday was the "Spiritual Day". Everyone had to dress in church dress, but i forgot my clothes at home. But thankfully, I was allowed to wear jeans, my awesome black button down shirt and Vans. But as the day progressed, it got really hot...So anyways, the events of the day, were the Young Men/Women activity, the Variety show, and the Musical program. i loved the musical program. Even though i'm at EFY for the week, i really feel the Holy Ghost the most when were at the Musical program. I felt so impressed from the Holy ghost, i started to cry really hard. i cried the whole meeting. Even at the Testimony meeting, i felt like crying, because the holy ghost was just so strong. And i finally bore my testimony. It took me five years to get the courage to bear my testimony. After the testimony meeting, the boys in our group decided to go bodies and break belts whipping each other. I have videos but those will have to be for another day. Ahhh.... Don't you just hate fridays? When you're at EFY, the principle is that you hate fridays, and T.G.I. Mondays. Anyways, on Friday, the highlight of the day is the Service Project. This year, we made blankets for a homeless shelter. My group of nine was the first group to finish the first blanket! Giving your time to service for good things just helps to boost the spirit. After that, we went to dinner and then to the dance. after that is the slideshow and the last devotional. and then on saturday (today) we leave. and that was the week for me.

*I forgot the one Brother's name.