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Photo courtesy Africa Area presidency
In stake service project, youth clean grounds of Lagos, Nigeria, center that cares for people with spinal cord injuries.
Africa West Area
'True future leaders' perform service
LAGOS, Nigeria — New friendships and a closer relationship with the
Spinal Cord Injuries Center resulted from an extensive youth service
project recently at this facility, which cares for paraplegics and
quadraplegics.
About 127 young men and women from the Lagos Nigeria Stake cleaned, cut grass, washed laundry, swept and painted, brightening the entire center. The project concluded as the youth gathered to hear a talk, "Making your weakness your strength," by Sunday Fayose, stake executive secretary. After the project, the youth gave gifts to the residents that included pillows, medications and other domestic items.
Following the service project, the director of the center, Gbenga Osho, delivered a speech of appreciation in which he described the LDS youth as "true future leaders of this great country." In later testimony meetings, the youth expressed that they had felt the true love of Christ as they served the less-privileged members of society.
North America East Area
Mayor given family history
CINCINNATI, Ohio — In commemoration of the formation of the Ohio Cincinnati Mission last year, local Church leaders here recently presented Cincinnati Mayor Roxanne Qualls with her family history and a wall mural. They also gave the mayor a copy of the Family Proclamation and a book detailing the history of the Church in Cincinnati.
Utah North Area
'Sisters in service' install sheet rock
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH — Relief Society sisters in the Wilson Ward, Salt Lake Wells Stake — dedicated to the theme "Sisters in service to neighbors in need" — recently donated service to Habitat for Humanity, an organization which builds houses for low-income families.
They spent the evening measuring and installing sheet rock for the organization.
Nicole Knowles, a member of the ward, expressed a desire to volunteer additional time to the organization because, "you start working on these homes and your heart goes out to these people in need and you want to do more."
