Today I begin the work to plan our Stake Youth Handcart Trek. It is a full 8 months away, but as leaders with a youth committee, we are instructed to teach these teenagers how to be the leaders. It will take eight months.
Our plan for today is to feed them--they are teenagers, and help them get to know each other--again teenagers, and start them looking to the whys as well as the hows of getting 200 people to Wyoming and back safely and with a purpose.
If just the adult leaders were to plan this, we could do it in about 2 weeks. But kids take longer. They are not just planning a Trek experience, but learning how to lead their peers and preparing to create a spiritual event. It is a long project, nonetheless.
I've never been on a trek before, so it will be a bit of a learning experience for me as well. The Girl will get to go with the group this time, so we will experience it together. But eight months is along time to think about and plan for something I've never done. Maybe it isn't the kids that take so long, it might be me!
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I'm jealous. Our stake just did Trek and they had a fabulous experience. I was part of the rescue party. The best sacrament meetings are when the youth speak on the Sunday following trek. It is all well worth the planning!
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