To Remind Myself

I recently designed a cover for my phone to reflect the things I love - music and service.  It's funny, but I can be frustrated, in a bad mood, or acting badly, and then I pick up my phone and read the words on the cover.  It really helps to change my attitude.  I love how my phone reminds me to be anxiously engaged in a good cause!

Finding Local Needs

Today is my 36th birthday, and I had planned on going forward with organizing a project to assemble LDS Humanitarian Hygiene Kits once more this year.  However, my mother-in-law called this morning to wish me many happy returns, and as we spoke she stopped us in the middle of our conversation because she felt impressed to tell me something and didn't want it to go out of her mind.  She then told me that she couldn't quite remember how she heard it, but that she remembered hearing something about how the LDS Church was changing their approach on how some types of kits were assembled.  As a result of this, I decided to make sure to check my facts before putting out the call for donations.  I couldn't find any recent information online, but then I found a phone number that put me in touch with the LDS Humanitarian Aid Center.  I spoke with someone there, and they affirmed that the Church is now encouraging members to find local needs if they would like to organize a project.  They were finding that they were having to go through all of the kits that had been donated by different efforts to check and make sure that they were to the exact specifications - and many of them weren't.  (not my kits though!!  you all know I followed the guidelines.)  :)

So if you're looking to donate on a more global level, doing it financially to the LDS Church's Humanitarian Aid fund is the best way to do that.  They then get supplies and money to where they need to go in the most efficient way.  Otherwise, they are encouraging members to find the local needs of the surrounding communities and find out ways to help them.

This puts me back to square one - hmmmmmm, what do I do?  I will do my best to figure this out in the next couple of days.  I am open to suggestions!

This summer I ended up making a label for our not-very-fancy jar to collect change for my birthday charity effort.  Here are some pics!