Labor Day service project

At the last General Conference, the church was celebrating 75 years of its welfare program. A challenge was presented to all of the wards around the world to participate in a "Day of Service". We were to plan and carry out a service project in our community. The point was to allow us to show loving charity to others, benefit our community or those we served, and to build unity among those in our ward as we worked side by side.
Our ward participated in a cemetery clean-up at the Wylie Cemetery on Labor Day. We cleared away weeds and growth around the perimeter fence, cut down shrubs and trees, cleaned weeds and overgrown plants from around the graves, picked up trash, raked, cleaned and painted the gazebo, fixed the metal fence, and did some refurbishing of table skirts in the funeral home. The project started at 8:00 am, and went until noon. It was a lot of work, and we had about 200 people there helping. Our whole family helped, and I was so very proud of our girls. I heard little complaining, and they were great workers!The project was a great way to help our community, and we were able to feel good about our part in it. Dave got poison ivy, which has been really difficult for him, but otherwise it was a really positive experience for our family!