Elder Floyd and Sister Linda Stewart are the parents of 6 great children and 20 wonderful grandkids.    Linda worked for Mesa Public Schools at Hermosa Vista Elementary for 22 years, eleven of them as the library assistant.   Floyd retired from Salt River Project after working there for 40 years.    Their bishop was inspired to ask if they would serve at Camp LoMia when he heard a 6-month missionary couple was needed.    According to Linda, Floyd can build, repair or improve anything.  He is a real asset to the camp.   Linda has been going to the camp since she was a YW in various positions.  And Linda LOVES Camp LoMia!   Elder and Sister Stewart’s main responsibility is Orchard Camp.

 Current Camp LoMia Missionaries Melissa and Dale Smith started their “6-month” mission April 1, 2020. It was such a good fit for them they extended their mission another 9 months which will end when the Girls’ Camp season is over, July 31, 2020.   The Smiths have 7 Children and 19 grandchildren.  Their home is in Payette, Idaho.  They are members of Payette 2 nd  Ward, in the Weiser Idaho Stake.    They learned about this camp mission through Gerti and Darwin Jenkins who served at Camp LoMia a few short months in the Spring of 2018 until Camp was canceled due to drought.   Melissa home-schooled their children and loves to sew.   Dale worked as an automation engineer for Ash Grove Cement.     Melissa and Dale, along with their children, built their house in Payette.   They both love photography, hiking, camping and fishing.  They fondly call themselves “scavengers” by repurposing materials. (Some of the addies in Upper Main Camp have “new” flaps they made from torn awnings!)   The Smit

Meet the Current Missionaries! Sister Jacquie and Elder Robert Judd   Robert and Jacquie Judd started their 2-year mission at Camp LoMia February 2020.   Together they have 14 children and 13 grandchildren.   They are members of the Thayer Park Ward in the Mesa Mountain View Stake.   Jacquie is retired as an Orthodontic Technician for Garn & Mason Orthodontics. She enjoys good health with her plant-based lifestyle. She loves cooking and baking with whole foods and is a certified holistic nutritionist. Robert is retired from The City of Mesa in the Water Quality Group.  He was the Cross-Connection Control Supervisor. He has also worked as a plumber and certified welder/fabricator. Robert is no stranger to Camp LoMia.  Before being called as missionaries, Elder Judd used his skills to help weld all three 9-Square-in-the-Air structures and helped with several plumbing projects. Since there was no camping during 2020 due to COVID-19, Elder and Sister Judd have been working hard

"Monday morning we helped serve the breakfast.  We’re going to the Natural bridge Tuesday.  We went to the  Rat Castle  for Arts and Crafts." (  Jana Shurtz [Mesa 14th or 16th Ward]   July 1958)                                                                                                    This house was built in 1914 making it 44 years old when Jana (above) went there for "Arts & Crafts".  William Thomas McClendon built this house.  His wife was Edith Woodward Fuller, daughter of original Pine settlers, Elijah Knapp Fuller & Ellen Celeste Woodward Fuller. I was thrilled to find mention of this farmhouse in Edith's Life Sketch on Family Search! "After they moved back to Pine, they all lived with Edith's mother until William Thomas bought a place about two miles up in the canyon from Pine. He bought it from an old man who lived in a cabin about a block from where William Thomas and a cousin built their home. The house had four rooms downstairs

Slash Pile Burn 2017 In the summer of 2018, Camp LoMia shut down due to extreme dryness and drought. (The same thing happened the summer of 2002.)  Fortunately, rains came towards the end of July.  Mesa Maricopa Stake was the only stake who hadn't canceled their reservation and got to enjoy the camp during the last week of the Girls' Camp season.  Also, because of those summer rains, families and wards , who had reservations, also got to use the camp until it closed for the year, October 31. While every precaution is taken to protect the camp and its visitors, one cannot discount the spiritual protection of a property dedicated to the Lord—sacred ground.   Below is the story of one such protection.  It is written by Neil Taft and transcribed by his wife, Sandy.  They were the Camp LoMia caretakers from 1997-2016.     5-MILE FIRE AND CAMP LoMIA Written by Neil Taft, Camp LoMIA caretaker                  Wednesday, the 28 th  of August, the residents of Pine, especi

1938--Maricopa Stake Presidency and Bishoprics at the old farm house (aka "Rat Castle") on camp property. Back Row:  A. F. Haymore, Dr. George M. Bateman, Otto Shill, Alma M. Davis, Lyman Shrieve, Dave Kleinman, R.L. McCook, Lawrence Kleinman Front Row:  J. F. Freestone, M.L. Griner, Donald Ellsworth, Lo Wright, W. R. Ellsworth, E. D. Brown, John Bond    Kneeling in Front:  Rial Randall That "Lo" is in the name of "Camp LoMia" is fitting.   Below are two accounts written by Lo's granddaughter, Jeanine Wright Smith that describe the vision and determination of Lorenzo "Lo" Wright in purchasing the approximately 160 acres at the mouth of Pine Creek Canyon in Pine, Arizona. Camp LoMia—How It All Began Camp LoMia Lo Wright Mutual Improvement Association  Lorenzo Wright Maricopa Stake President 1938-1947  compiled by Jeanine Wright Smith Soon after Lorenzo Wright was sustained as Stake President of the newly created Maricopa Stake, he became fa