Clean up day.

"Positive thinking won't let you do anything, but it will let you do everything better than negative thinking will." Zig Siglar

Today around noon time I remembered I had signed up to clean the chapel without asking Daniel. I just couldn't. I was in Relief Society and a roll was passed around and felt the need to help out. I often feel the desire to help others whenever I see a need so I signed up to do some service but for Daniel this was not something he wanted to be spending his Saturday doing. 

But there was no way out. we were committed to go. We both got ready and made a driver come to pick us up and that is probably the part Daniel hated to do. It wasn't that he didn't want to clean, it was having to ask someone to take us there that bothered him. We still don't know how to get around in this city and the Church is far away.

But we did it in record time, We cleaned up a storm and we were glad we went. It wasn't too bad after all. The fellow who came to pick us up came with his wife and daughter and they even got to help. I loved how someone took the time to write down every chore that needed to get done and when it got finished we placed the card on the side that says done. Someone had taken the time to do a chore chart with a cleaning list. Nice!

Chore charts was something I didn't do that well or at all. I had maids growing up but a family I used to baby sit for were amazing at it. They had signs that read:" Do it right the first time or do it over" or " Do not ask anything until the list is complete. There was a cleaning list and even the little five year old had jobs to do. The cleaning list was very detailed. For cleaning a bedroom it went like this: 1. Put all toys in their place. 2. Put all clothes in their place 3. Put all books, homework, papers etc in their place 4. Put all make up, jewelry and shoes in their place 5. empty the trash 6. get stuff from under the bed and put it in their place 8. dust or wipe counters desks and dressers 9. clean mirrors and clean window seal 10 Vacuum. When all this list is done, come get a treat! There is nothing that brings a good feeling than accomplishing a task like cleaning. 

Daniel now can say to the people here, I went to clean the chapel the other day... and continue with his presentation because that is exactly what he is doing here with the leaders.  Teaching them about taking good care of our physical facilities and what better teaching moment than to have done it himself with a chore chart and all.  So my post today is to make work and chores fun and think positive...enjoy even the chores around your house and be happy.

Con amor,

Vero