Singing and Scooping

This week was full of cool things that Daniel and I did. Friday we had a couple over for dinner and games. We had some great hamburgers which we got on sale from the store and popcorn. We played lots of games and had a pretty good time!

Saturday we went to stake choir practice for our stake's performance of the first act of the Savior of the World. It is going to be pretty cool. Hopefully we can get down all the music and a few more people show up to be in the choir! It should be fun. We probably should have tried out, but that would have been a lot more of a time commitment.

Later that day we went down to Bastrop, Tx (which is just outside Southern Austin) to volunteer with the church cleaning up properties. We basically moved trees, bricks, and metal into piles near the road so that the trash companies could come pick it all up. We even got to wear the yellow "helping hands" vests along with face masks so we wouldn't breathe too much ash. Apparently almost 600 members volunteered from 4 area stakes. They helped clean up 75 homes. They split us up into groups of 30 to go to houses. Our group ended up helping with two homes. It was a good experience; we ended up coming home covered in ashes and with a real appreciation for what we have.

So, apparently the group who sponsored the event asked our area 70's executive secretary (who happens to be in our ward) if he could even find 100 people that could help. He replied, "I can do better than that I'll send 200!" Afterwards he thought to himself "I hope I didn't just embarrass myself!" He asked wards in 4 stakes for volunteers and they ended up with 580 or so people to help! Here is the story that the local news showed! (We aren't in the movie, but you can pretend that it is us :P) Video Link- Click here!