Helping Hands

OK. Can I just say that my sister in law, Rachel, is the coolest! On Tuesday night she, along with the rest of the RS presidency in her Las Vegas ward, put together this wonderfully awesome night on "being the Lord's Hands here on earth". It was a night about serving others. Rachel did an awesome DVD slideshow that they showed with pictures of the sisters in the ward with eachother (some were so cute and silly) and then in between the pics there were quotes of things the sisters had said about eachother, and ways they'd been served by eachother. This whole thing was put to music (a song by the "Friends"... remember the Friends... I used to go to their firesides when I was a teenager and beyond! I LOVE their music, and one of the singers and the lady that writes their music is in Rachel's ward... LUCKY!). It was so cool. Then she did another DVD on her computer with a children's book (all the pics), narrated by a lady in her ward (sounded professional) about these 4 great friends that served eachother. It was so wonderful. The coolest was that Rachel asked me to be the speaker for the evening! It was so much fun. Secretly, I love speaking, especially to my sisters in the gospel! It turned out great. (I have to say that I didn't know how to start my talk up until the day before I gave it. I was racking my brain for a way to tie it all together. Then my neice made a comment about my dirty gardening gloves I was working with out in the yard and the quote by sister Hinckley that is on Katrina's blog popped into my head! IT WAS PERFECT!! Thank you Katrina!!) The best part of the night was visiting with all my "new" sisters afterwards. They were all so welcoming and so nice!! I even loved helping clean up afterwards... of course, that's because it included more visiting. Nothing's better then working and talking side by side! They gave out frienship bread starters with recipe books, and little hand pins afterwards, and we ate friendship bread (different flavors) and hot apple cider for dessert. It was even decorated beautifully. Well... Thank you Rachel, for inviting me to speak. It was very flattering and really was a lot of fun! The night turned out really lovely! You're the best! BTW Rachel- when did your hair get so long... I noticed in the pic below. Looks great! haha. :)

This is a picture of me and Rachel at the activity. Ignore the date, my camera is all screwed up with the date and time, so I gotta figure out how to fix it! haha.