Austin's adventures with the Young Men

Last Sunday Austin's deacons quorum had a lesson about how sin can bind you. Apparently Austin was the object lesson. I was only given this picture after agreeing to sign a waiver not to sue.

 This is Austin as he was leaving to go to Scout Winter camp on January 3rd. We told him he had to manage getting his own luggage to the van. He found a way. Notice he wears a hoodie and a t-shirt. We have had an extremely mild winter. Unlike other years, any snow we have had disappears fairly quickly and much of the winter our yard has looked like the picture below. When Austin came back from camp, though, he was wearing snow pants, a coat, boots, mitts, etc. Apparently it is colder in the mountains!Highlights of the trip included "Mountain man's breakfast" on the last day. This consisted of eggs with all the leftover food added to it--goldfish crackers, etc. He survived sledding down a hill with a barbed wire fence at the bottom, and learned lots of inappropriate jokes about bodily functions. The miracle of the gospel is that after a long shower and a few loads of laundry, we could detect no physical harm from the camp.