September Fellowship

There's both good and bad to report about last night's meeting.

The bad news, we only had 7 people there, and two of those were candidates. We obviously need to do a better job of getting the word out and getting people excited. I was planning on taking pictures to help with the publicity side of things, but I managed to forget about that during the meeting.

The good news, well there's a fair amount of that:

• it looks like we'll have 6 or 7 candidates from our chapter at next month's ordeal, and as many as 25 total.
• the arrowmen that did come all seemed to have a good time building towers out of pretzels and marshmellows -- we should see all of them back next month (hopefully bringing friends)
• we got some good planning done for the October ordeal, I'm getting excited about it

Next month is looking good too. I think we'll be putting together a soccer themed activity - more news about that later. We may also end up doing a service project on or near Hallowe'en.

Pow Wow 2008

We had a small contingent at Pow Wow this year, with 1 youth and 1 adult there full time and 2 additional adults coming out for part of the Pow Wow. We also found that new chapter chief Stephen Ferris has moved to Provo to attend school and is now a part of our chapter — Hiya Stephen!

The Pow Wow was a great opportunity to meet with other members of our lodge and to get more involved in things. There were a bunch of great activities (the atlatl range, the dance exhibition, and the falconry display were some of the most popular).

The lodge put a big dent in the work required to get Camp Tifie up and running as part of a service project. Hopefully we'll send a lot of scouts in 2009 when it opens. If you missed it, you might want to think about going to one of the Lodge functions next year. With LLD, Teepee Week, and Pow Wow, you've got some great options to choose from.