Tuesday, June 9, 2009

service with a smile

For Family Home Evening last night, we talked about the importance of helping others and service.

DSCF0612  How we can provide service to people we know or to strangers.

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We can serve the neighborhood.

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And help the planet while we're at it.

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And it doesn't matter if anyone knows about it (though yes, I'm blogging about it!) or if we do it in secret-we do it to make others and Heavenly Father happy.

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We cleaned up the park near our home, paying attention to even the littlest bits of trash and garbage that had accumulated in the grass and bushes.

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And we had fun doing it.  =)

10 comments:

Lorie said...

What a great lesson. And if any of your boys are Wolves (I can't remember if your oldest is a Bear already) they just passed off achievement 7c...or something like that! ;D

Jenna said...

Perfect! I am always picking up trash on our walks, I can't stand litter!!

OneHappyfamily said...

Your a good momma!

Liz said...

Ah that was a good lesson littering drives me crazy...=-)

tif-do said...

That's awesome! And what a great FHE idea.

Kyle Farmer said...

Good stuff. My 3.5 year old is all about picking up trash. Sometimes I wish he would leave a few things on the ground. He apparently doesn't seem to care about germs!

Anonymous said...

Great idea. I will probably use it. Tammi

wittygal said...

Hey I like the glove! You know you really belong in Cub Scouts right? Keep up the awesome work!

Delfina said...

What cute little helpers!

jinxi~ aka angi said...

YESSSSS... why arent their more parents and kids out there like you/your family???

I appreciate what you are teaching the boys and so happy that they are learning the important things in life.. especially respect!