TFY: Best experience ever

[liamc2]

[COLOR=blue]Recently I left to go to a church activity. Now I know what your thinking 'Please, no more religious nancy pancy topics,' but for once I am beeing sincere and speaking from my heart.

This activity was simply called TFY (Time for Youth) and was held at the Eight mile plains chapel (Brisbane). It was set up for the whole of Queensland, and some youth travelled for 26 hours from Cairns to get there.

I was apprehensive at first, being around so many people I didn't know (1200 approximately, all LDS) But everyone there was open and welcoming, I felt at home. There were non-members there that had been invited and they had a great time. The whole thing went for 3 days and we were billeted out to some great families.

Everyone there were volenteers, the councellers were young single adults that gave up they're time to be there and plan activities.

Most of the activities were team building ones and were fun, there were skits and songs. We could even order a $2 CD that had the music on it.

The best part was the last, we had a testimony meeting and bore witness to the gospel of Jesus Christ, all were apprehensive, but we felt the purity of the spirit and bore our testimony. Not a dry eye was in the pavillion. We all left with a full heart and new friends.


I just wanted to share that amazing experience with all you people out there:)[/COLOR]

[velvet paws]

Sounds like you had a really good time. I could never do anything like that :worried: Sounds like you're all the better for the experiance. Heh..good on you :)

Take care

[liamc2]

I'm sure you could, I'd say that 9/10 people that went were the better from it :)

But of course it depended on you whether or not you were going to have fun

[Charles]

Hey, it's really nice to hear about something good coming out of the church, right now. I can bet that you won't hear any stories like that from the media anytime soon. I'm glad you had a good time! :toothy:

[DeathKnight]

[color=crimson]I wouldnt be caught dead in something like that... sorry... but Jesus hasnt done much for me lately... Heh...

But at least someone enjoyed it...[/color]

[Lady Macaiodh]

i know what you mean... one of my best experiences was youth camp when i was 14.

of course, this was before i experienced the true hypocrisy of the church, lol.

i think, though, that church or other religious places can be very positive as long as you ignore the stupid people.