Would You Rather?

Tonight was our ward's community service activity. We were working at a local elementary school, helping the custodial staff prepare the grounds for the first day of school. Carson and I arrived promptly at 6 o'clock, the activity's start time. With the exception of the custodian, the ward member in charge of the activity, and a mother/daughter pair, we were the only ones. Our promptness was rewarded by giving us the opportunity to pick what we wanted to do. The options were:

• washing windows
• moving/spreading pea gravel
• raking leaves

Which one would you choose?

Which one do you think Carson picked? And me?

Well Carson picked washing windows. I just shook my head, but at least he picked something and didn't complain about his choice. And he actually did a nice job with the windows.

I picked spreading gravel. There is just something about hard manual labor that makes me sweat that I find so rewarding. I told Carson that if I was going to be out, I wanted to feel like I had actually done something. Raking the gravel, getting a blister, sweeping the gutters...all activities that made me feel like I had been very productive.