To Dad, Love Amy

Dear Dad,

I really tried this year to not put this off.  When thinking about what I wanted to do to honor you, I kept going back to what a wonderful example you have been in my life.  I decided in June that I wanted to take Grandpa Bodell to the temple once a month.  Here is us from July.  In Aug, Grandpa got sick and then in Sept, we lost Ryan and things didn't happen as I had hoped, so I needed to change my service.

I need to change my service, so I went back to the example you have always set.  You are a forever teacher with your example.  I decided to help others with service.  I volunteered to do a bulletin board for Dillon's school class.  I went in a talked to them about service.  I had them all write down a service that they wanted to do and then we put them up on the board.  It had just snowed a few days before, and more than half of them said they were going to shovel driveways.  It didn't snow again for about a week.  A few of Dillon's classmates live on our street.  When it snowed and Dillon went out of shovel, our drive way had already been done :>  Here is a photo of the board.  When they finished their service they would put a bow on their "Gift of Service."

I thought that I was done and all was good.  Last week, Dixie needed help for her service for Ricky (a new cousins service blog).  She wanted to help spread the Christmas Spirit.  She asked if I could bake cookies.  I had just made 50 sugar cookies (Mom's recipe).  I didn't feel like jumping to it, but I thought of my Dad, if I asked him for help with a service project, he would be there in a heartbeat! I then proceeded to make 136 cookies to help my daughter with her service project.

Dad, Thank you for always being a wonderful example off continuous service.  Love you tons, Amy