“Here are photographs from our ward’s service in southeastern Louisiana. We collected canned goods for several months and donated them to three local charities. On April 25, ward members volunteered at the feeding ministry of the local AME Church. The photographs show some of the volunteers wearing their yellow Mormon Helping Hands vests and shirts while preparing and serving food, and stocking pantries. The Primary children sang several songs at the event.”
What a good-looking bunch of people!
Young saints do their part.
There is enough and to spare.
Feeding the multitude.
What the cemetery looked like when we started working.
After lots of shoveling, raking, cutting...
...mowing and hauling tons of trash and debris...
...the cemetery looked like this when we finished.
This is the "before" picture of the house, when we're just starting.
This is how we left it when we finished. Good job, friends!
Somebody go tell the bishop that the high priests are goofing off. Oh wait, that is the bishop.
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TSteven sends in pictures from their cleanup project in Minnesota. Thank you!
“After all the snow and ice melts in our little town the city sponsers a City Clean-up day as all the hidden trash is uncovered. Our primary asked the ward to particpate, but only the Presidents’s family and the 2nd Counselor’s (my wife) did. The 11 of us were assigned the local lake and we spent 3 hours cleaning the shore line of all the trash accumulated by the ice fishermen all winter. We found a lot of floats and beer cans (even one full one, but not our brand), plus we got a traffic cone! As you can tell the weather was wet and cold, but the day before had been 90 – that is what we call “the summer” here – blink and you miss it.”
Taking out the trash in Minnesota.
Residents of the lake give their approval.
April 26, 2009 at 11:14 pm
That is SO fantastic!!
April 26, 2009 at 11:32 pm
Thanks, Left Field. This really is fantastic.
Intellectual discussions are one thing; this is quite another.
April 27, 2009 at 4:02 am
Thanks for sharing this.
The Church is so severely disfavored by the public and press these days, that I wonder if our best long-term missionary approach is to town down the aggressive proselytizing that invokes such disdain, and, instead, going about with good works such as this.
~Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.~
April 27, 2009 at 4:12 am
“town down” = “tone down”
April 27, 2009 at 6:56 am
Matthew 6:1-4
April 27, 2009 at 7:18 am
lol phouchg.
Nice use of scripture, btw.
April 27, 2009 at 7:35 am
Matthew 5:16
April 27, 2009 at 7:41 am
In Durham, NC, we did a blood drive, among other projects, and invited in other local congregations. We had a great turnout. At the blood drive alone, I believe we had well over 100 donors.
Now that I have my blood pressure controlled, I was able to give again for the first time in years. The Red Cross staffer was extremely nervous and jittery, though, and ended up missing the vein. So, it was more painful than usual and I have a nice fat ole’ bruise to mark me “donor.”
It was easily worth it, though. Glad that we did this.
April 27, 2009 at 8:01 am
Revelation 2:21
April 27, 2009 at 8:40 am
So cool! I love to hear things like this!
April 27, 2009 at 8:41 am
Wonderful stuff!
April 27, 2009 at 9:25 am
Verrah nice. Thanks for the pictures.
April 27, 2009 at 10:33 am
Great post. The picture really do communicate as thousands of words.
April 27, 2009 at 11:06 am
Thanks, Jared!
April 27, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Jacob 6:12.
Our feeding of the multitude included loaves and fishes, but we did the Lord one better and served bread pudding (being dished up here by the Young Women). I love Louisiana.
April 27, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Left Field, for lunch they made jambalaya for 500 people. I heart Louisiana too.
April 27, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Mark, our ward crawfish boil is this Saturday. You should come.
April 27, 2009 at 6:10 pm
What time? I’m there.
April 27, 2009 at 6:14 pm
3:00 pm on the grounds of our ward building. The annual crawfish boil is usually in a city park, but we somehow didn’t get reservations this year. Bring your bathing suit, there’s supposed to be a water slide. You should post photographs of Brother Brown frolicking in the water.
April 27, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Mark, noon til it’s gone at the ward building. Bring the missus, and dessert to share if you like.
April 27, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Used to be noon; got changed to 3:00 p.m. in the latest flier. We should invite the whole Bloggernacle. Crustaceans. Yum.
April 27, 2009 at 6:21 pm
And while you’re at it, delete my #20.
April 28, 2009 at 5:06 am
I sent in a few pictures last night, but we also made the front page of the local paper (We are a very, very small town). Anyways here is the link for the article:
http://www.postbulletin.com/newsmanager/templates/localnews_story.asp?z=28&a=396465
And the picture is to the right of the article. In the actual paper we are not mentioned in the article but the picture caption lists all our names as we carry trash.
April 28, 2009 at 6:57 am
TStevens, thank you for participating and sending in pictures. The post has now been updated with your contributions.
That looks freezing cold!
May 2, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Mark! You missed the crawfish. And there was still at least three gallons of jambalaya when we left.