Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Mormon Helping Hands

An estimated 60,000 to 70,000 California Church members joined for the second annual Helping Hands Service Day throughout the state of California on Saturday, May 8.

Our stake met at 2 different sights. The women and children met at the Box Springs Park and cleaned up... we weeded, and pruned and picked up garbage... I am so mad that I didn't think to bring my camera so I stole these pics from a friend. The older boys and men met at the top of Pigeon Pass at the park and did a LOT of weeding and clearing hiking paths, it was a lot of hard work. Brad, Dallin and Chad were up there... I was down with the women...
Here is a pic of Cheryl and I. We worked as a team and did all the weeding from the entrance of the park down to the BBQ's and bathrooms... it was hot and a lot of work, but oh so rewarding! It was nice to know that we were all joining together throughout the state to make our parks a better place to visit!


Like I said, I wish I would have had my camera and gotten some pics of everyone working... and a before and after shot would have been nice, the park looked SO nice when we were all done. The served lunch afterwards... Here is Dallin and Ricky! Good work boys!

A group of the YSA's...


You can go HERE to read more about this project! There was a 2 page article in the Church News about it... Good job, California Mormon Helping Hands!!!

5 comments:

Pedaling said...

i heard about this on a political site.
yay for mormons!

Joy For Your Journey said...

It looks like a lot of fun. I have a good friend in northern California who participated as well. What a great thing for everyone to do!!

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tammy said...

Great job!

Bren's Life said...

That's Awesome! Way to go