ike

so this weekend i saw something that i didnt think that i would ever see. i saw a man that has been going through a lot in his life put everything that he has been going through behind him. we were helping out in lake jackson with the clean up that is going on after hurricane ike. and i saw a member of our stake presidency working harder then any one there. i saw a man working for the good of a community that he didnt even live in. i saw a man that worked so hard on loving the people in this town with out even knowing them. he worked and worked and worked till he had no more in him. then he just pushed right through it. it was such a great feeling that we had such a great person there working with us to make the people of that town happy. i grew so much watching that man work as hard as he did. i realized then what true service was. what it is like to work hard throught anything that you are going through. that when you think that you have it bad when you are sitting there and you are thinking to yourself and saying why is this happening to me? that is when you need to find some kind of service. that is when you need to dig down and know that there is someone that is worse off that you are. and that you need to find them and do what it takes to make them happy. service is the way to find what happiness is. i learned that i need to do more of it and that doing something like that really does make me happy. i just hope that i will always remember what i saw that day. that even when your down and out service is the that will make you happy.