by Andrea Lauritzen

When I was a teenager, our whole mutual group provided a special and unexpected Christmas for a struggling family in our ward. The girls and the leaders prepared for this project for several weeks. The young women were given clothes sizes and a wish list for the four or five young children, and each youth was assigned to buy a specific gift for one of the family members.

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by Tina Scott

Waking up one morning, I remembered a dream I’d had during the night. I was to take Sister Baker, an elderly widow in my ward a loaf of homemade cinnamon bread. Shaking my dream off, I realized that I didn’t know the woman well enough to just randomly show up at her door and hand her a loaf of bread. In fact, I didn’t even know where she lived. And why cinnamon bread?

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by Danielle Ellis

The Tule Springs Stake, in the Northwest part of the Las Vegas Valley, has a deep commitment to humanitarian service. Thanks to the dedicated work of stake and ward Relief Society leaders, that commitment has produced wonderful results for children from the Las Vegas Valley all the way to Zambia, Africa.

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by Cheryl Stewart Osborn

Rick and Sheri Neilson’s family enjoys high adventure.

Together they have spelunked through deep caves, rappelled off high cliffs, and white-water rafted down mighty rivers. They even climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.

But this Thanksgiving, the Green Valley Stake family will embark on their greatest adventure yet – a humanitarian service trip to the impoverished village of Salkantay high in the Incas of Peru.

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by Marilyn Richardson

Overwhelmed by the number of people on her Christmas list, Jean Rhodes of St. George, Utah, decided ten years ago that something needed to change. She planned that year to send stockings to everyone. Simple enough, she thought. But with six children and four in-laws, their 22 children and spouses and 24 great grandchildren, it wasn’t so simple after all.

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