Youth Day of Service

The Southern Utah area had a youth day of service on May 8th.  More than 3,100 youth and leaders in the St. George area got together to do over 36 different clean-up projects around the area. Our Stake was assigned to clean up on Highway 18 (going towards Veyo) between mile markers 9 and 10.  The YW leaders in our ward weren't going to be able to go so they asked parents to come and supervise.  We usually go hiking on the Saturday before Mother's Day but we decided to go a little bit later than usual so we could help with the project.  

We woke Courtney up and were at the Church by 8 am to get our assignments and start cleaning up.  They gave us the cute (haha) yellow vests that say "Mormon.org" to wear and keep because they have the old website on them.  We took a group picture, loaded in our car, and we were off.  

Did I mention that Courtney was the only young woman in our ward who showed up?  Yup.  She was the only one so Bryan and I went with her and told her we only had to stay for a little while.

We got to our designated spot by about 8:45-ish and began cleaning up.  It really wasn't a bad place to clean up trash because there wasn't much of it.  The young men in our ward helped and, at around 9:25 we left to come home.

Courtney wasn't happy to wake up early and clean up, especially when she was the only girl, but I was glad that she did it so she could do service for others.

If you want to read about the Day of Service, this is a link to the Church News article: Youth Day of Service.

Courtney refused to wear the cute yellow vests.