We Remember of Camp Oakcrest

I went to a 50 year reunion for Oakcrest Beehive Camp. I worked at Oakcrest in 1990 as a counselor and in 1991 as an Assistant Director. Oakcrest is a beehive camp in Kamas. The girls that attend camp are from the stakes in Salt Lake valley. We began in June with the first group of girls and we went to the second week of August. Each week we would get a new group of girls. There were about 10 to 15 girls in a group. The girls would come up on Monday morning and leave Friday afternoon. We slept in cabins, there were flushing toilets, showers and a huge lodge where we would eat each meal. Of course we sang songs after every meal. We had a mutual on Tuesday nights with great speakers. We would have a cook out followed by a testimony meeting on Wed. The counselors got to be good friends. I still keep in touch with some of them after all of these years.
My experiences of camp are hard to explain because it was such a unique opportunity that not many understand. It was the most spiritual place to work. Everything we did we tried to
have the spirit with us. We taught the girls that they are special and that they are daughters of God. The songs that we sang brought the spirit. Many girls felt the spirit for the first time at camp. When I went back a few weeks ago I was still able to feel the same powerful spirit that I would feel when I worked there. This was a great experience that prepared me for my mission. I was truly blessed to have been apart of such a special place.

These are my friends from 1991 when I was an AD. Sunshine was the other AD and Windsong was a counselor. Sunshine was the one that got me hooked on John Denver.


This is in the lodge. There was a wonderful program put on by the 2008 staff. Let me just say the songs have changed a little and so have the moves of the counselors. These are my great friends, Tiggy, Syosset, Sneaker, Banana, Bonzai, and Trumpet. It was so fun to see them again and catch up on the last 18 years.

Here we are in the Treehut. This is where the Director, AD's, and Kitchen staff live. This is where we would have our staff meetings. There were so new couches and some things were a little different.