We just returned from delivering Jacob's Eagle Scout Project. Now the hard part, filling out all of the paperwork.
For Jake's project, he chose to benefit the Huntsman Cancer Hospital. A call to Blanca, the volunteer coordinator, was made to see if there were any volunteer projects that they needed. She told Jake that there were certain items that they needed: books, movies, scarves, hats, puzzle books, coloring books, crayons, and blankets.
Jacob sent out flyers to each ward, concentrating on the Relief Society. He provided hat patterns for those who might like to sew. In addition, he enlisted the young women in our ward to make fleece blankets.
Some people dropped items off, others called to leave addresses. On Wednesday, the young men all went out to collect the items left.
We found the members of our stake to be very generous. The items literally filled Blanca's office.
Last night we sorted and boxed the items. We had 3 large boxes of blankets (probably 50-60). One box was stuffed full of colorbooks and crayons. Another box was filled with crossword puzzles, sudoku, word find, etc. as well as pencils.
There was one huge box of hats and scarves. There were tons of movies and books. Some smart person added decks of playing cards. There were also a fair number of puzzles. Lots of stuff.
We would have done a tour of the hospital this morning buy Jacob spent the night throwing up and wasn't feeling too well. He thought it might be embarrassing to vomit in the halls (like that hospital hasn't dealt with enough of that).
We can only thank all who made this a very successful drive. We hope that the items collected will make the stay nicer for a lot of people. Blanca said that she had just been told by the infusion room that they were in need of blankets.
BLT's for dinner, zucchini bread in the oven, watermelon, corn on the cob, picnics in the canyon - these are a few of my favorite things about summer. 
