HEBER VALLEY CAMP June 2026
It’s been a couple months since we have written about our mission, so we will catch up a bit. We spent April and May getting the cabins, pavilions, cook stations and bathroom ready for campers. We turned it on, tightened it up, repaired it or replaced it to be ready for the Young Women groups, Young Men groups and Youth Conference groups who started coming after Memorial Day. It was so wonderful to finally see faces!
Now we keep the camps stocked with supplies such as soap, toilet paper, garbage sacks, cleaning supplies, wasp traps, etc. Some days we pull out all the fluorescent lights in a cabin or pavilion and convert them to LED lights that should last ten years and use a lot less energy, plus they are very bright!
Our favorite part of the day is to take some beautiful paintings of the Savior and go to a campground of girls, or young men, or youth groups, and give a presentation of “I Feel My Savior’s Love”. We talk, teach, share quotes and play the guitar for them to sing along to the Children’s Song with the same title. It is a sweet experience with them and uplifts us.
We work hard all week then enjoy our p_day back home in American Fork where we can have the kids and grandkids over, catch up on sewing, yard work, prepping some food, going to wedding receptions of returned missionaries from our mission in San Francisco, and sleeping in our beds next to our bathroom which we now consider “spacious.”
A special new addition to this camp is the Faith Walk built last year. We have enjoyed experiencing it for ourselves, then helping at different stations along the way for others. There are usually 600-1000 guests a night and sometimes we don’t finish and get home until just before midnight. We see so many touched as they walk along or hear from them the next day and know that this is such a meaningful experience for so many.
Most days we work from 8:00-5:00. Church is now held in a large pavilion or amphitheater outside. We serve on an Activities Committee and are busy helping for such things as our Talent Show, Firesides, upcoming 4th of July parade, Cowboy HoeDown and Hawaiian Luau.
We are half way through our 1st season here at camp. We are happy and enjoy serving with the 220 other senior missionaries. We are making a lot of new friends :)
The Youth Theme this year is “Walk with Me.” Our daily cheer together is “Hurrah for Zion!”
We hope all is well with you. Love, Elder and Sister Jerman
Trading out lights
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