Opportunities to Serve Others

This week we did a ton of service, so I'll tell you about that.

   So we do something called "Habitat for Humanity" - you should look it up! Basically we can all just volunteer and we help to build houses! There are also people there who are doing sweat-equity labor.  Theywork for 300 hours and then they get a home! It's a really great program. Elder Willets and I have helped to paint, caulk, put in doorknobs, put in mirrors, towel bars, and do lots of other fun stuff. It's actually super good experience and it makes me feel like I'm actually a useful human being who knows how to do handyman stuff instead of just a music and writing person. Hahahah. It's good experience for when I have a family.   I'm actually really grateful for it. We usually go for 4 hours every Wednesday morning.
 
      We also helped at "farmshare" which I've been to three times now.  They have a huge warehouse in Arlington, right next to Fort Caroline. They bring a truck to a location, we help them unload it, and help give food to people.
 
     It's really great!  I love doing service so much now.  It's funny, before the mission I couldn't stand service. I was like "Helping an old lady rake her lawn? I could be wasting my time on facebook and YouTube!"  But now I love it to death. There really is a spirit that comes into our lives as we serve others. I don't know the mechanism behind how God works and how the spirit comes, but we definitely build charity and feel the spirit more when we serve.

     Also, I want a pet snake. We were weeding as a district (us, the other Fort Caroline elders, and the Jacksonville beach elders and sisters) and one of the sisters said. "Wow, this is a really big worm." 3...2...1... "Ahhhhhhhh!" Wow she screamed the loudest scream of all time. So I grabbed it with the professional snake-grabbing hold by it's head and it was like the cutest thing on earth! When I put it down a ways away it tried to bite me though. Whoops. Ungrateful little thing. We could have just cut it in half with a shovel, so we were helping it out.

  I'm glad that it's warm there! I remember those days where you walk outside, expecting arctic chill, and it's a pretty spring day! None of that here - I've been enjoying the 70 and 80 degree weather before we get back to summer…

 Love you! I hope the weather stays warm :)