Grateful don't even cover it

I'm so grateful and thankful for all the people who came and helped move 6 tons of hay in less than 2 hours. I can't find a statement that shows or states how appreciative I am for all who helped. I am so blessed to have amazing people around me, and those beehives that showed up rocked and magnified that service opportunity, and the men stacked and packed that hay so well. :-) Words really can't describe how I feel. (Yes I know this is a direct quote from my facebook status)

Over the past 48 hours I have seen the Heavenly Fathers love so abundantly in my life. So I'll start this story at the beginning. One of my classes we have to find an invertebrate species and identify it down to the species using a Dichotomous Key. So I had a couple spiders that had been inside my house and I had a bunch of different microscopes but I couldn't see anything it was just too small. So I texted one of my friends who I've worked for and asked if I could go to her barn and get some spiders, cause she has some really big ones living there. She said yes, so I went over and we talked and she mentioned she had to have her barn cleaned out my Wednesday. So I mentioned I could bring a couple people over Monday to help because it's a holiday and there is no school.

Sunday at church I ask people to come help out and I don't have all the details but just tomorrow I need help moving some hay. So I find out about 4 we can do it around 10 am, and I call and email everyone who said they would be interested. The little beehives in my ward all volunteered and when I called I said, "please bring and invite as many people as you can, thanks so much for helping." I had been praying about it since the day before that people would be able to come and help.

This morning I arrived a couple minutes after 10 am I was so happy and grateful to see so many people show up and help and the enthusiasm with which they moved hay. I know hay isn't that exciting, and moving it isn't that fun and when you clean out 2 stalls worth it gets kind of hard to breathe. we moved 6 TONS of hay in less than 2 hours. Not only was the hay moved, it was unstacked, packed, restacked, unstacked and restacked. I never heard one person that didn't want to be there and people were smiling and sure at sometimes it felt like we had a little space with lots of people, but no one complained, people were smiling and joking around. More then anything I just wanted my friend to know that she was loved and people are willing to help, and it seemed like one of those "it came out of the woodworks (hopefully this is the right idiom)" type of events that people came together and I felt grateful that people who cared about me showed up and more importantly they chose to serve someone else who some of the didn't really know. Those little beehives are going to be leading this church one day, they were amazing. I feel like anything I say is inadequate of how blessed and loved I feel and how appreciative I am. Especially because this whole thing was really arranged in less than 36 hours. to me it was amazing to see that I could arrange this thing and have so many people participate and help. They were so willing to help again as well and I am so grateful to have amazing ward members. Especially when we needed other thing and people were like "I have a friend who has that" or "my house it right there I can go grab stuff." I don't know how to express my gratitude other then by saying thank you thank you thank you. :-)

Thanks so much to Brother Davis, Brother Sewell, Brittany, Brittany's friend (sorry I don't remember your name), Cassidy, Emily, Camilla, Mary, Sister Billings, Brother Billings, Sister Sowby, Brother Merrill, Andrew, and Brother Wilson. I know that some of the best blessings such as this can come from bad situations so I am so grateful for the love, support, service, smiles shared today.

Hopefully I can post a picture of out final result here, I forgot to take a picture.

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So you may or may not know that I have an instagram which I use update more often than my log so check out my cool instagram feed to your right. it will connect you with my instagram profile too. so you can see what I've been up to. I'm still going to do a big update on life life after this week (because I have 2 midterms) so it will at the earliest be on Saturday.
seriously go check out my instagram and I apologize in advance for my phone not knowing how to spell.

Coming soon...

It's been 4 months since my last post. I'll update in the next couple of days with LOTS of pictures. :-)