This year I went to EFY with Ellie
Kenworthy. We were so excited. We went to EFY at BYU Provo, and it was my first
EFY going there. We started by checking in and then going to meet our
companies. Our counselor was named Angie, and she was awesome. Our guy
counselor was named Benj, and he was a party. We had a great time with them. We
played some games after meeting everyone, and then we went to our first
morningside and then played some FHE games with our company. It was a great
first day.
The second day we started with gospel study, and then went to the
morningside, which was great. Then we went to the classes which were awesome.
The spirit was just present all day with all of the awesome lessons. Me and
Ellie participated in the musical program, which means we would eat lunch fast
and go down during lunch and free time. It is a great experience, but I wish we
could still have free time. Anyway, after free time and dinner we had the
dance, which was awesome. EFY dances are seriously the best, it was so fun.
Then we went back and got ready for bed and had reflect and review and
everything. It had been an awesome day.
On Wednesday we had mainly the same
layout for the day, with gospel study and the morningsides and classes. It was
great. Some of the classes perfectly answered the questions that I had and I
learned so much. After all of that, we had games night in the evening, which
was really fun. We had learned and practiced some of the games beforehand and
were prepared. We won one of the games! It was a fun time. After that we went
back and had pizza night with the girls in our company, which was really fun.
We got to ask everyone different questions and get to know each other a little
better. It had been a great day.
Thursday was spiritual day! This day is always
awesome. We started with gospel study and a morningside and then we split up
for young men’s and young women’s. We
had some really good lessons about our roles in the gathering of Israel. Then
it was the infamous variety show! My company’s name was The Keys and throughout
the week we had been throwing and snapping our lanyards, and we had decided to
audition for the variety show with that. And we didn’t make it! Can you believe
that? Well anyway, all of the acts were awesome. There was one magic act where
a guy from our company went up as a volunteer and snapped his lanyard before
coming back down. Everyone was probably so confused, but we were so proud. It
was legendary. After the variety show we had free time, which meant practicing
for the musical program. Then later after dinner we had the musical program and
fireside. Me and Ellie had auditioned for solos and had gotten a duet together!
It went well. The musical program and fireside were both super spiritual and
were probably my favorite parts of this week. After that we had the testimony
meeting, which was also really good. Then we went back and had R and R and went
to bed!
The next day was our last full day of EFY, which was weird to think
about. After gospel study and everything, we had a whole bunch of take it home
and sharing the gospel games. They were really fun, but it was really hot
outside where we were playing them. Then during free time me and my company
went bowling, which was a blast. Then later we had a dance! It was fun, but I
think I liked the first one better. Then after that we had a final message from
our session directors and we sang the EFY medley together. It was great. Then we
met with our company and had our last meeting together. We made new goals to
take home and thought of ways to bring the messages home. The next day we said
our goodbyes to our EFY family and headed home! It was an awesome week that was
so filled to the brim with the spirit and I’m so glad I got to go. It was
incredible.
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