BYS ~ Boise Youth Spectacular!!!

This occured just last month, and I have to say, IT WAS THE BEST!!!!!
I was nervous about things like, "Will my group like me?" and "Will I know where to go?"
Turns out I didn't need to worry. Our counselor, Sarah Egbert, was AWESOME!!! So was our group!!!! It just so happened that I already knew two of the guys who happened to end up in our group!
One funny experience I had was when our group was walking toward our meeting spot. We saw a group of boys and girls who had been paired up together and were walking with their arms linked. So I thought, "Is there some kind of fancy dance going on or something?" However, no one was dressed for anything special. Later we found out that the girls of each group would have to be escorted from place to place by the guys of the group. I then thought, "OH. OK." Two of the guys had to have two girls each, since we had seven girls and five guys.
We also had a lot of spiritual experiences, as a group and as BYS in a whole. I loved the speakers that we listened to. One of them told of a seminary experience they had. Their teacher told them, "Close your eyes and imagine your future wife/husband. Now imagine they're just ending a date. The guy walks the girl to the door. They tell each other good night, oh! Now they're giving each other a hug. Oh! Now they're kissing......" The longer they kissed, the madder and madder the speaker got. When the imaginary couple stopped kissing, the teacher asked the speaker how he felt. The speaker said, "I feel so MAD!!!" The teacher said, "Very good. If you kiss your date before leaving, that's someone's future spouse you're kissing." He said something like that, but it hit me. Although I still want the fairytale-like first kiss, I thought about how I would more than likely be kissing someone else's future spouse.
We were also priveledged to see Jenny Jordan Frogley, who also held a concert!! It was SO FUN!!!
We also went to a dance after the concert. With it being 104 degrees outside and around 800 youth crowded on a cement patio, it wasn't exactly an exhilarating experience. I thought it was kind of funny that I was asked to dance three times, the first of which was 15, the second 14, and the third my age who also happened to be in my group.
We also had fun putting together a skit to try out for! The only rule was that the song that the skit was done to had to be a primary song or a Disney song. Our group decided to do a Disney song. After tossing around some suggestions, it was unanimous that we perform the song "I Wanna Be Like You" from The Jungle Book. We also decided to act out the whole song and talking scenes. Choosing parts was really fun. Right away, everyone agreed that Regan Thurgood should play Mowgli, which was kind of funny; Sarah said, "Who should play Mowgli?" and everyone turned and looked at Regan! Riley Busby was chosen to play Baloo, Janessa Pieksma played the short white-haired monkey, Stacey (can't remember last name) played Bagheera, and who played King Louie? Yours truly, funnily enough! I said that I would do it if no one else would, so I immediately got the part! Everyone else played the rest of the monkeys. I wish that we could've had more time to practice, not only because we weren't that prepared, but it was so fun!!!
I was nervous about coming, but on our last day, I just about broke down when Mom came to get me because I didn't want to leave my awesome new friends!