Today my ward was involved a statewide day of service called the "Mormon Helping Hands Day - Renewing California Parks." I heard that 70,000 people were expected to help out across the state today! After getting our awesome yellow t-shirts and having breakfast burritos, the plan was for us to re-roof a bathroom at one of the parks, but we had too many people show up to do that job. So a bunch of us went to the city orange groves and picked up trash instead. After several hours of walking through sand, spiderwebs, red ants, and cockroaches, I finished up very sunburned and dirty, but it was worth it! The city of Redlands put on a barbecue lunch for all volunteers afterward, which was wonderful after working hard all morning!
I love these girls!! I am in the Relief Society presidency with Kati (above) and Amber (below) so I have gotten to know them a lot better in the last few weeks.
Check out our "headquarters..." with plenty of water, gloves, and trash bags:
And the bathroom roof that part of my group was working on:
3 comments:
We just did something similar a couple of weeks ago, it was a lot of fun. If I was picking up trash in an orange grove I would have been tempted to pick oranges instead.
LeAnn, I kept asking if we could eat the oranges. They just looked so good! But sadly they were not ripe yet...
cockroaches...now that's service!!
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