Southern California Helping Hands

Our family had the neat opportunity to go to our community park (Kit Carson) and work with our Stake to do community service. We all donned our yellow vests and t-shirts....and everyone looked like little worker bees cleaning up brush, clipping trees and removing trash. Our kids had the chance to shake the hands of two General Authorities. The newly called Area Seventy, Allen Haynie, and Elder Dobbins and his wife.

The younger children were able to do their service by making care packages for the soldiers over seas. They also were able to make love notes and include them in their packages. There were moms of soldiers their as well. They were expressing what a joy it is for these men in the military to get a piece of home sent to them. The kits included Gatorade and drink mixes, gum, mints, granola bars, toothbrushes and fun stuff like that.

The kids expressed what a good time they had serving, and managed to look pretty cute while doing it. They were slightly eaten alive by mosquitoes;)