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[Third entry in a series on my mission trip to Minnesota.]

Soon after our arrival at camp on Saturday, my group decided that we wanted to invite the others to a campfire one night and have s’mores. When we went into town on Sunday, we picked up all the necessary ingredients, and on Tuesday we decided to have the fire. After dinner, a couple of us went up to the fire circle, and since I was the only Boy Scout present, and an Eagle Scout at that, I ended up with responsibility for the fire.

The first thing that I had to do was decide what kind of wood structure to use. Should it be a teepee? A lean-to? A log cabin? I voiced my assessment that we should do a log cabin, which tends to make a nice campfire. Willy suggested that we do a church. The logs at the fire circle were rather fresh and sappy, so we had to go down to the woodshed to get some nice, dry, dead logs. When we returned with some choice pieces of timber, I constructed a log cabin, while the others filled it with crumpled paper and kindling. To top it all off, and to satisfy Willy, I also added a steeple, thus making the log cabin a church. The paper—actually glossy catalog pages—was a little hard to light, but once the fire got going, it burned wonderfully. I did feel a little guilty about burning down a “church”, but those were some good s’mores!

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