Painting

This morning I was able to finally get out of the house for the first time since Sunday.  I also had the opportunity to do some service for a friend in my ward.  Her family will be moving soon, and are getting their home ready to sell so they asked for some help painting.  It felt so good getting out of the house, and I loved helping out this wonderful family.

This friend has been such an inspiration to me ever since I first saw her.  I wasn't in this ward yet when I first saw her at some conference meeting at the stake center one evening, so I didn't know her name to begin with, but I was impressed and intrigued from that night.  You see, she radiates light, and is in a wheelchair.  When we started attending this ward I was introduced to this woman, and got to know her.  She is an amazing woman!  I learned that she had fallen out of a tree while in college, and broken her back.  But that doesn't stop her!  She is now married, and just had her third little boy this summer, and is an inspiration everywhere she goes!  She is so happy, and does so much!  She does wheelchair racing, and done at least one marathon in her chair.  I could go an and on, like I said, she's amazing!