This year Young Men Zion Camp would be held at Hutan Lipur Kuala Who, a national park in Perak. The park is alongside a river and is surrounded by jungle. The camping area is a large grassy field with an attached open hall for cooking and activities. The Boy scouts, including a number of LDS scouts and leaders, have held family and group campouts there and the site is excellent for youth camping.
The goals for youth camp are increase fellowship and friendship between the District Young Men, particularly inter-branch, strengthen gospel testimonies and knowledge, have a great time together and learn practical skills (leadership, camping, cooking, cleaning, etc. in an environment and spirit of brotherhood)
The idea for Young Men Camp this year is to structure it around the Boy Scout “Patrol” method, emphasizing teamwork, self-preparedness, cleanliness and cooperation. In the Patrol method, the young Men would be divided into 4 – 5 groups of 6 – 8 young men with 1 leader assigned to watch group for oversight. Each group will choose their own gospel related tribe name.
Each tribe would be responsible for choosing a tribe leader and assistant tribe leader, camping and sleeping in the same area together, cooking and leaning up together, holding morning scripture study, prayer and devotional together and acting as a team for sports and gospel related games, skits and activities
Tribes made up of a mix of Young Men from different branches, with one Boy Scot in each tribe so they can help instruct in cooking, cleaning up, etc. Physical activates will include sports activities (examples includes soccer, flag football, flashlight tag, orientating course, bamboo and ropes activity, other large group outdoor activates – boys to pick their games. Each branch young men leader will also prepare on “station” with a game or activity for a Saturday Morning Activity that the tribes will rotate through.
The Activity Highlight was exists to drive the youth 45 minutes on Friday August 31st to the Nomad Adventure Camp (where we went rafting for Youth Conference) and participate in a Half-Day Ropes Adventure Course. It is run and supervised by the Nomad Adventure team.
The course takes about 3 hours, includes a giant swing, a rock scaling activity, and a tree-top course. Spiritual activities would include gospel-related games organized by the different Branch Young Men’s Presidencies, a fireside and devotional, skits, a testimony meeting, and team-bonding activities.
There are a lot of videos which Alvin had took using his GoPro, but I do not know why I unable to open the videos and there are a lot of videos which he took during at the Nomad Adventure. Hopefully I can update the blog one day after figure out why and how to open the file.
Both Alvin and Issac told that this is their first ever camping and they enjoyed 3 days activities but it was really tiring.
I am glad that Issac loves the Church program and activity. Glad to see him grows in the Church!
