Our Heroes

Missionaries do some pretty intense service, so we thought it would be nice to include them in our Good Works month by sending the Elders some love.
There are lots of missionary kit ideas, we like this one because it's all about super heroes... which is basically what missionaries are in our book. 
We bought all of the treats/goodies and had everything printed up before we met together on Wednesday (note: the link above was for Fathers Day gifts, not missionaries. So one of our leaders made up some notes to include with encouraging scriptures etc). Right after opening exercises we put the girls to work gluing all of the labels onto the appropriate snack and boxing everything up. Then we wrote up some letters and stuffed it all into the box.
We could only send the packages to our Elders that are state side because of shipping costs, so make sure you look into this before you get the post office.

 *Just for the record we did send our out of the country missionaries some letters, good thoughts, and good karma.

Sit Upon the Baby

Open up the nursery room, set up a t.v. and insert a popular child flick, put some fun things (basketballs/beach balls) in the gym, and prepare a snack because tonight we are babysitting for the ward!
We planned tonight's Good Works activity to be all about babysitting. We've been advertising in the ward for a few weeks now that on this particular Wednesday parents can drop off their children between the hours of 7:00-9:00 free of charge.We also passed around sign up sheets in Relief Society/Primary just to get an idea of how many children to expect.
We had the girls arrive a few minutes early to help set up. Then we played with the kids all night, while the parents went and did whatever it was they needed to do. A bunch of the Mom's in the ward all went out for frozen yogurt together, and from what we hear this service was very much appreciated.

Bishopric Car Wash

We started Good Works this month.
So, we washed the bishopric's cars.
It was wet, and there were wet fights.
More importantly, it felt good doing something for the bishopric that does so much for us.