Service List

Thank you so much to everyone who performed service this past week in response to my birthday wish for service. It added such a wonderful feeling to the whole week.

• giving my hubs back rubs every day whether my arthritis hurts or not.
• My visiting teacher had a cyst that she was waiting to burst. So she was in a lot of pain and had to go shopping with her three little children to costco. So I offered to go with her to help with the kids so she wouldn't have to pick them up, etc. So I got to hang out with some pretty cute kids.
• I was planning a playdate with a friend and then she said she couldn't come because she didn't have a car, so I offered to give her and her daughter a ride to the place and we all had a great time.
• I made my roommates bed when she was gone
• So all last week I was looking everyday for just simple ways to serve somebody. The first thing that I was able to find was a neighbor who posted on our Ward facebook page. He needed help with his bike and I've been learning a lot about how to fix my own (the hard way normally) so I jumped on the opportunity. I also really don't know the guy that I helped either but it turned out to be a good way to get to know him. I was at his house for about an hour and all that I ended up figuring out was that he would have to take it to a shop. I knew what was wrong and how to fix it but we didn't have the tools or parts to fix his bike. We had a good time getting to know each other while freezing and getting nowhere with his bike. But from the moment that I commented on fb telling him that I'd help him, the opportunities to serve just came flooding in
• I scraped the ice off of the car next to mine
• Today we hosted a family for dinner since they were returning from a couple months absence to an empty house. What a treat to come home to a full meal and roll into your own bed... without cleaning up or shopping!
  I thought of doing it for her cause... i knew, instantly when she said she was on her way home, that she'd do the exact same for me. so that's how that was thought of.
• I'm going to my grandpa's house after work (he just had back surgery) and I'm going to pick the flowers out of his flower bed, cut the bulbs off, lay the bulbs to dry and then pack the bulbs away so that in the spring...we can plant them and he will have nice fresh flowers again. I'm really looking forward to the time spent with my grandpa.
• Keeping others in mind and focusing on lifting the burdens of others was just what I needed last week.
• I took supper to my sister after her pacemaker was replaced.
• I cleaned a lady in the ward's house
• I did the dishes that weren't mine

Thank you! And thank you to the ones that were done unconsciously--to Deanna for cooking us dinner and for Benji and Levi for bringing it. To Sierra for sharing her migraine pills with me. To Rachel for working my shift so I didn't have to on my birthday. I love service and I love all of you for doing this for me!