Service

Our stake has just finished another major service project today. It's been quite interesting the last two weeks being involved in some service to the community.The first was a Food Bank drive. We do this annually. Every stake in our city delivers flyers and bags, and then a few days later picks up food to donate to the food bank. I organized it for our ward. It was an interesting challenge. We got it all done though. Last year they said what we collected was more than any food drive in Canada has ever collected. This year we beat that by 10%. We collection over $650,000 worth of food! Quite amazing. The front page of the Calgary Extra had a picture of it.
We have a new children's hospital that has just been built here. So all the stakes again joined together in a service project. We made a quilt for every child that will be transported from the old hospital to the new hospital this next week. There was about 300 or so quilts made around the city, I guess. We did that today. We tied quilts and finished quilts from 1-5 pm, then we had a light dinner, and then watched the RS Broadcast. We had a fabulous turnout. They were hoping for about 75 women - and got double that. It made a bit of a challenge for the dinner - but just like the loave and fishes story, it all worked out and everyone seemed to get plenty to eat and there was food left over.I quite enjoyed the broadcast. I think spending the afternoon in service was a good way to prepare our hearts for the messages given.