Monday, April 27, 2009

The Service project

I was put in charge of a service project for our ward. We went to the Florence Crittenton house downtown Charleston. It is a home for unwed pregnant and at-risk girls. we planned to paint their front entry way and a bed room and do some other odd jobs.


We had breakfast together at 8:00 am and the high priest put that on. It was great; ham, grits, biscuits and gravy, eggs, sweet rolls and fruit. We were finished with breakfast and headed down to the house. We got started around 9:45 which was perfect. We started painting and cleaning and the youth started organizing the donation shed. It was so great to see all of the ward working together. The children painted curtains to put in each of the girls rooms and also made cork boards for each girl.




Everything went really smoothly accept for the spilling of the paint on to their carpet. It was a half gallon of white spilled, but the men started at it and started to clean it up, poured water on it and used a carpet cleaner, and after about an hour, it was all cleaned up. I couldn't believe it.


I thought the service project was such a success. It was to all of the ward members that came and donated their time, talents, and their supplies. THANK YOU!!!

3 comments:

Melinda said...

Glad it was a success. It looks like you had a good turnout!!

Matt and Debbie said...

That's awesome!! What a neat idea to get everyone in the ward involved so whole families could do it together. Nice work Analee.

Susan said...

You did it!!! You are quite the leader! I'm glad you stuck with it. I read in the Church News about the projects in the SouthEast. Nothing bring wards closer together than working together. I'm sure the people there were so appreciative. President Hinckley said that service goes before the missionaries. Way to go Analee!!!