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As promised in my previous post, I took my Flip Video along with me on the Service Project to Auger Falls. You will see all of these activities in the video but I thought I would also type up some of the things we did.

We met at the LDS Church by the Temple. When we arrived, we were greeted with smiling faces behind a bunch of tables of Bright Yellow’ish Green’ish shirts. Each participant was offered a free tee shirt for participating. Mine looked like this.

We were then directed to a bunch of School Buses provided by the Twin Falls School District. We boarded the buses and were shuttled down to Auger Falls. The area down at Auger Falls had been well planned out. A map of the area was displayed and each bus was organized into groups to travel to each area. We, the Carter Family, was put into Area B. We were given red spreaders to help us distribute the seeds evenly. In our areas, there were large sacks filled with more seeds to re-fill our spreaders. The volunteers brought rakes to help disturb the soil enough to allow the seeds to take root. The ground was lightly burned in some areas, and in others, there was nothing but soot and dirt. As we walked, we tried to stay in straight lines to keep things organized but this became very difficult to do because of the many rocks and hills that filled our area. After we had finally reached our boundary posts, we continued our work until we met up with the other group of volunteers. We were happy to see the line of red spreaders coming over the hill because that meant that our work was finished. We were then shuttled back to the main tent where we were given a lunch of hamburgers and hotdogs. The local employees from the Waste Water Treatment Plant were so nice to provide the meal for all of us. As I thanked the Treatment Plant Volunteers for fixing the meal for us, I found out that one of them actually drove down from Boise to help out. We were all very thankful for the meal. After lunch, we boarded the buses and headed back to the LDS Stake Center and went home.

I am hoping to go back to Auger Falls next summer and take some video of the new grass seedlings sprouting. It was a wonderful opportunity to serve the city of Twin Falls and our community. Enjoy the video.

If you want to see what Auger Falls looked like before the fire, please check out my video of our family riding our bikes.

This coming weekend is September 11th and what will the Carter Family be doing? We will be helping out with a huge service project. Our Stake has decided to join several other Stakes of the LDS Church to help clean and improve our surroundings. The Idaho State Journal wrote an article about this upcoming event which should include around 10,000 members of the Mormon Church.

Our particular LDS Ward has been assigned to travel to Auger Falls and re-seed an area that had burned earlier this summer. We were instructed to bring grubby clothes, rakes, gloves, seed spreaders etc. They are hoping to be able to plant enough grass down there that will grow quickly and replace the burnt vegetation.

It should be an awesome site with all of the Youth and Adults from Mormon families from all over Twin Falls. I’ll take a video camera along and post some nice pictures of the project.

In last month’s LDS youth magazine the New Era there is an article about how Scouting and the Priesthood support each other. I decided to cut the magazine cover off and post it in the Aaronic Priesthood room at church. This is what it looks like.

There are a few articles in this Mormon magazine that are great for young men to read. One of the articles was about a young priesthood holder that was putting together an eagle project. The article was called “He’s Got Game”. He gathered together a bunch of youth and leaders and had them all bring a ball to an organized game of soccer. At the end of the game, he rounded up all of the balls that were donated and boxed them up to be shipped to needy kids in third world countries. I thought it was a great idea so I gave the article to my son to see if it would spark any excitement since he will be working on his Eagle Project soon.