Merry Christmas Everyone!
I had a great opportunity to serve in behalf of Laura. Now still being fairly new to the family I decided I need to learn and talk to the some of the family members to learn about her. From what everyone told me, she is a fantastic person, what stood out to me is that when there is a need she will observe the situation and act to help. Therefore, for my service I wanted to build an A.R.K. (Acts of Random Kindness) This was an amazing experience for me and is something I would like to continue doing. I would like to share just a few experiences that I had with this service.
Grandma and Grandpa Schow
This experience started out wanting to clean my grandparents house that they have lived in for 52 years. As they have grown older they can only keep it tidy but not deep clean it. My parents, some siblings, Lauren and I decided to deep clean the house while they were working at the temple. As we were cleaning we found out that they did not get very many visitors any more because all of their kids are now grandparents and are busy with all of their own families. After we were done cleaning on our way home we felt that we needed to do something and visit them. We came up with a plan that as long as we don’t have kids, once a month we will hold FHE with them. We figured we’re both empty nesters at different ends of life and we could learn a lot more from them. When we showed up for the first time they were so thrilled! We talked for hours, we thought it would be a good opportunity to help them but little did we know how much this would actually impact us. They are a great example to us on how much two people can fall in love with each other. Over 63 years of being married. What an amazing example.
Great Uncle Charlie
The next service I would like to share is about my Great Uncle Charlie. He is 90 years old who still has a very independent spirit but he is losing his eyesight as well as his ability to stand for very long. My uncle Charlie and his wife live independently still in Provo and don’t have very many children around. What I thought would be nice is to go shovel their driveway whenever it snows. As I have done this it’s been a sobering experience because he has a strong personality. At first he did not really like the idea he didn’t want help, he thought he would do little by little over the next few days. Well as he tried he would get so far when the snow would come again and all cover all the work he had just done. When I showed up for the first he did not like how fast I got it done. The next time it snowed it was a heavier snow and as I showed up to shovel the snow I visited with them for a little bit before and is was so amazing to see how grateful he was for the help. He pulled me aside and said that “this is something else growing old and not being able to do simple things like shoveling but thanks for coming and helping and visiting us.”
This was an amazing gift and lifted my spirits higher than I think it lifted theirs.
I would like to thank Laura for being an inspiration to me. Thanks for serving everyone around you and spreading the Saviors love.
Mormon Message:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEfg-Z-TOc8
I love it! Thank you Casey for sharing of your time and love with your grandparents and Uncle. I especially love the FHE with your Grandparents, because when Grandpa Bodell lived here, we would bring our kids to do FHE with him once a month. We all treasured our time together. I'm so grateful you've married our Sweet Lauren and I think you are a perfect match for her!
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