We Are Blessed

Yesterday was our annual City Wide food bank drive that our church does for the Calgary Food Bank.  Members of each stake take a donation bag to every door in the city with a flyer explaining that we will be back on Saturday and if you would like to donate to the Calgary Food Bank just fill up the bag and leave it on your front step. 

Thursday night Jason and the boys headed out to deliver the bags to our assigned route of 125 homes.  Then Saturday morning starting at 10:00 a.m. we went back to pick up any donations.  I'm always incharge of driving the truck slowly with the liftgate open and the boys and Jason walk up and down the streets picking up any bags.

Starting out Ashton would put a Thank You card on the door and Bowen would grab the food, unless it was too heavy.  They had so much fun - Bowen was especially into it this year.

It is such a great service project for our family and we enjoy participating each year.  This was our 3rd year and we hope we will be able to do it for years to come.  Calgary was very generous this year as well.  We felt we picked up more bags than last year for sure.  The back of our truck was right full.

After we made sure we had double checked at each house we headed to the Cranston Chapel for the drop off.  The church and the food bank had everything running like a well oiled machine.  We pulled into one of two lines, they checked off which ward we were from and which area we had canvassed. 

We pulled up beside a big cardboard box, opened up the back of the truck and a team of elders emptied out the truck, and we were off.

It was a great day, and a record number of food was gathered for the food bank.  I'm grateful for my family to have the opportunity to serve others.  I hope my boys gain some gratitude for all that they have.  We are blessed!