EFY was so fun. SO FUN. SO EXHAUSTING!!! lol. Talk about constant worry, constant schedule, stressing out, and reaching out!
I dont even know where to begin. I had 14 girls, they were great girls. Couldn't have gotten better ones. One of the biggest challenges I found was being their friend and also their counselor. I had to do a skirt check once and skip morning scripture study to find this girl a modest skirt, and I think she hated me after that, but I was only doing what was best for her and keeping EFY a placed where the Spirit could be.
One of my favorite outcomes was that two of my girls that were really struggling expressed to me afterwards that they had found the answers they were looking for. I can't tell you how that brought tears to my eyes after all my trying to express my heart and my testimony to them in hopes that they would feel the Spirit and make forward strides in their lives towards the Savior. I loved hearing their testimonies during testimony meeting. I loved watching all the girls interact with the young men of our group, and hearing them express how they were now determined to find a worthy priesthood holder who could take them to the temple. Each girl felt the same way. I will attribute that to my co counselor, Nate, who was able to befriend his guys and get them to respect him and do things right by treating the ladies like ladies. Yay for good guys!!
Now I am physically and emotionally exhausted. I actually came down with a really yucky bug. I don't know what it is but I am coughing and my head is totally stuffed, I just want to sleep all the time. Thankfully no nausea. That could mean swine flu. LOL. Actually, we had an epidemic at EFY. They had to send 20 counselors home and I think about 200 kids. It spread like wildfire! Talk about mass chaos for the health counselors!! Yuck!! I just hope mine doesnt turn into Influenza, like one kid got diagnosed with! Supposedly that is the beginning of swine flu. Ew!! They thought it was swine flu, thankfully they are pretty sure it wasn't. Haha wouldn't that be kind of funny? 2400 kids quarantined for swine flu due to EFY.
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We have the same bug fro EFY...How sure are they it isn't swine flu? It fits all the descriptions. Both my daughters were sent home early with it.
Well, a few of our kids got tested, and the results came back to be a mild strain of Influenza A (it goes away within about a week), so I asked the nurse how it compares to the swine flu, and she said it is basically the same thing...so though it may be a different strain of flu than swine flu, the swine flu is really just like any other flu, apparently...I mean, if I really did have the swine flu, people don't have to worry if they get it, unless they already have fragile immune systems for whatever reason. It's really uncomfortable and yes I wanted to die there for a couple of days but it came and went! I think spreading around the idea that there is a mass epidemic of swine flu at EFY could also do some damage to people's psyche haha
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