Service

One of my friends in Vancouver has this quotation framed in her bathroom.  It's a good to remember whenever a friend needs a favor.  The author, Marjorie Pay Hinckley, was the wife of the former president of the LDS church.  She was known for her sweetness and great sense of humor.

"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautiful tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with grass stains on my shoes from mowing Sister Schenk's lawn. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt form making sandwiches for a sick neighbor's children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my nails from helping weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheek and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived. "

— Marjorie Pay Hinckley