Ward Christmas party

Our ward usually does a service project for our Christmas party.  I have loved this tradition.  Pre-Covid, we would go to the Utah Food Bank to do service.  But since Covid, they haven't had many opportunities there and we have found another organization to support that is local to our community.  We put together kits for Tams Treats.  It is an organization that gives food to elementary students who wouldn't have food over the weekend.  The kids get a packet of food on Friday that will last them through the weekend until they can come back to school to get food.  It's fabulous for those kids who have struggling parents.

We did our service project last year for this group and made a ton of kits.  This year, the bishopric bought all the items and asked for donations to cover the cost.  

On the morning of our party, we went to the Church and there was a Mexican food truck set up.  While half of the ward got their food from the food truck, the other half went to do the service project of putting kits together.  We were in the group doing kits.  It was so much fun.  The kids would grab a grocery bag and they would go down the line of food while the adults would put items in the bag.  It was kind of like trick-or-treating.  We were having so much fun that we finished the project before the other group finished eating.  They missed out but we told them we were doing service for them.

The food at the food truck was really good. They had different options.  I got a breakfast burrito and it was good.  I think this may be our new ward tradition.  No one in the ward had to make food, we did service, and clean up was easy because another ward had a part after ours so we left everything up.