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I was going through some old video footage from an external hard drive that I have. There are several hours of video of birthdays, kindergarden plays, songs, christmas’s etc. One particular spot on my video files shows our family over at the Twin Falls Temple grounds before the Temple was built. My Dad came up with a briliant idea one day to go over to the future temple site, after the official ground breaking, and do our own ground breaking. So, my Dad got out two of his shovels, painted them both gold and marched us out to the small patch of dirt that was used by the official ground breakers.

Below is our little video of our family doing our own “unofficial” ground breaking at the Twin Falls Temple.

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.

A while ago I pulled out my Flip Video and did a re-enactment of the Wass Up Commercial. I scripted out all of the parts, took the video clips and spliced them all together. Little did I know that I had put so many little references to the Mormon Church in the video. At the beginning, my daughter answers the phone. If you look close, she is sitting on our couch and the Mormon Temple in Logan is in the background. Then, as my part comes into play, I noticed that I have a BYU hat on. Both of my daughters are drinking caffeine free soda. One of the soda cans isn’t even open. It is funny that I just now noticed. So, here is our little LDS Family doing our own version of the Wass Up Commercial.

Anyway, enjoy the little video.