Friday, July 10, 2026
Tonight started with a devotional around camp, where President and Sister Wilding spoke to us before we broke off into our companies. Each youth wrote down two things: something they wanted to leave behind, and something they wanted to take with them. The things they wanted to leave—habits, fears, whatever was weighing them down—got buried in a hole in the ground, gone for good. The things they wanted to take with them went into their journals, something to carry home and keep.
From there, we split into our four companies for testimony meeting. Each company is really just four or five families who've walked together all week, so by the time everyone sat down, these weren't strangers bearing testimony to a crowd—they were kids talking to the people who'd watched them struggle up every hill and kept walking beside them anyway.
To the youth who were there: hold onto tonight. Remember what you buried and why. Remember what you wrote down to keep. And remember who was sitting next to you when you said what you said.
One more day. See you at the finish line.