August 1, 2009
Our stake is very proactive in community affairs. One way is that each year, on the Colorado Shares weekend, we do a Stake Service Project. Two years ago it was serving at the Firestone celebration. Last year it was a community cleanup in Longmont. This year we were doing service in Lyons. Our ward was assigned to start at a field at highway 66 and 53rd. It us a field that needs to be mowed all summer, but it is full of rocks. The city asked us to move the rocks out of the field.
Mar and I got there at 9:00. At the time there were just us and two other families – a total of 7 people. We were starting to worry that this would take us a long time. But as time passed more and more came – of all ages and all makes. New families – old families – families with kids – families that were just one. In the end we had fifty volunteers and cleared the field in about 40 minutes – and then had time to go into Lyons and help with a weed pulling project along a running path.
It is so good to know that people respond – and had a good time doing it. We do live in a world filled with people with good hearts.
1 comment:
I heard you were moving more than rocks out of the field? Carrying youth in wheel barrels?
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