Helping Hands

Today, throughout the entire United Kingdom, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints worked together on various service projects for their local communities. It is known as "Helping Hands" day and is an annual event. Our project for the Peterborough area included cleaning up the Nature Preserve at Railworld. We weeded, laid paths, painted a bridge, dredged ponds and even drove in fence posts. It was a beautiful warm day and we had a lot of fun working together with our fellow church members of all ages.

Below: my little girls and their friend, Olivia, work together to "chop out" the weeds near the picnic area.
My good buddy Julia and I worked on painting the bridge.
The boys got to play with large hammers.
Even the Mayor, herself, came to behold this massive effort. She seemed pleased and posed for a photo with the group of us that were painting the bridge, then took a tour of the grounds with our Bishop.

As we were finishing up with our service activities, the Nene Valley Railway's steam engine pulled in and we got to see it getting filled up with water. The girls were really impressed.

Afterwards, we headed into the city centre for a few hours at the Medieval Fayre, part of the Peterborough Heritage Festival. We saw demonstrations on medieval craftsmanship, toured a replica of a Viking longboat and enjoyed the Roman and Viking soldiers re-enact battles.