EFY Medley

I went to EFY at Brigham Young University twice, when I was 14 and 15 years old. In case you have never heard of it,  EFY stands for Especially For Youth and it is week long LDS camp for youth that takes place in the summer. While you are there you get to hear lectures from amazing people like John Bytheway and Sheri Dew. You meet thousands of youth of the church and share in wonderful spiritual experiences. You also have a ton of fun and do crazy things outside of your comfort zone that you never thought you would. You also are assigned to a family with a female leader and a male leader that are usually college students. They are like your mom and dad on the journey and then you have a group of 20 or so guys and girls your same age that literally become like family over the  course of a week. It is really weird how it happens, but it really does happen. At the end of this utterly magnificent week you go on pretend missions and they split up your family. The guys are cut off from the girls and you really start to miss each other that day. Then for the final devotional that night everyone meets up and you sing The EFY Medley. 

This is by far one of the most spiritual experiences I have ever had in my life. I saw this video circulating Facebook tonight and all of those memories from more than ten years ago came rushing back. To this day this song fills me with joy and brings peace to my soul. I can't help but tear up at its beauty and simple message. It tells of  youth unifying together to come unto Christ. There is a certain undeniable power in the words. If you have never had the chance to sing this song in a room full of thousands of your peers, I pray that one day you will get that chance, there really is nothing quite like it. 

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