Activities Committee Co-Chairs

We moved into our new church in may when we moved into our new apartment. We got callings about a month later to be on the activities committee. At our first committee meeting the entire committee told us they were moving, and wouldn't be able to make it to the big camp out on August 13-14. Great! We thought. We have no idea how this particular ward works, etc.

So everyone moves away and a week later we get called to be the co-chairs (the heads) of the activities committee. What? A week before we have activity that we have NO IDEA how to pull off or even where the campsite is located we get called? Why did they call us to such a time intensive calling when I'm do in a month? A million thoughts were going through my head when we heard that we were going to be the new co-chairs.

Soon I realized that everything would work out, because it ALWAYS does. The Lord always prepares a way for us to accomplish what he wants us to do. No matter how big or small the task. So, Sunday we got called, and yesterday was our first activity-just ourselves-no committee. Here's how it went (we were in charge of providing dinner):

• Friday afternoon- Brad and I drive to the church to get coolers out of the shed. They key they gave us doesn't open. Call Bishop.
• We realized we don't have the drinking cooler in the shed. Call bishop.
• Go to closet and get all the paper products.
• Go to costco. Momma Leslie sat down to a slice of pizza and ice cream while brad gets everything on our list. What a superstar!
• Go to sunflower market to get cantaloupes that were on sale for 3 for a dollar!!
• Go to walmart to get all the condiments plus a big container of powdered lemonade.
• Go home, cut up all the tomatoes and onions for the hamburgers.
• As the onions were being cut eyes were tearing noses were running. Those onions were so intense!!!
• Wait for the Relief Society president to bring us the drinking cooler. Fill up the other one in the mean time with ice. Prepare to fill up the RS presidents cooler.
  
• RS President's cooler gets filled up with lemonade and a ton of ice.
• RS President's cooler has a leak. Leslie get's frustrated! Darn these coolers!
• Leslie goes to load up all the light stuff, Brad is sweating his but off heaving the coolers into our little mazda.
• Leslie tries to open the car door and spills the powered lemonade mix all over the road. Leslie laughs. She's too stressed to be mad any more!
  
• Leslie and Brad are running way late, empty the cooler, and head out to the campsite that they don't know where it is. Traffic was so so bad.
• Brad and Leslie get some help unloading the car. Brad grills tons of hamburgers and hot dogs. Leslie cuts up a watermelon and 6 cantaloupes all by herself.
  
• Leslie and Brad are the last ones to eat. They make new friends, which made it all worth it.
  
• Brad and Leslie get home before 10. They are exhausted!! They look to see if their lemonade is still on the road, or if someone guy at the liquor store thought it was crack. Final result: