The Best Ward Ever

When Crystal and I decided to buy a home I had one requirement. The toilet in the master bathroom had be enclosed within its own little room. We looked at many beautiful homes. We searched all over, we spent hours on KSL/MLS, then one night I had a prompting to look at homes in West Point, I found one home that I thought would be good to see. The next day we went out with our realtor (Scott), I had a long list of homes to see and I didn't give much weight to the one is West Point as it was new construction and somewhat out of the way. We had a long day and saw what felt like a million homes that all felt wrong, yet we still hadn't seen the West Point home. Frustrated we decided to call it a day. Scott then told us that he had found a home in West Point that he thought we may like. I was discouraged and thought to myself, "Great here will be another home that we wont like." Scott talked us into going and looking at the home and I mentioned there was a home that I found that we would like to see. It ended up that we didn't like the home Scott found but we did like the home I found. We also noticed the home next door was for sale as well. Neither one fit all of our wish list, neither had my toilet requirement but something felt right. Long story short we ended up buying the home next door to the original one we found. We knew that was where the Lord wanted us.

The Elders quorum in our ward banded together last night and worked in our yard. I was told they filled up SEVEN garbage cans, SEVEN. We had so many weeds and the grass was overgrown. I had every intention to get out and get the yard done, but it always seemed that something came up. I was trying to finish up school so I could graduate, take care of Crystal, finish the basement, between these three things I was exhausted, on top of this I had a business to run and fulfill all my responsibilities with my full time job (I work for two sister companies, one in which I have ownership the other I work as their Director of Finance). The yard and flower beds were a very low priority for me. People offered to help but my pride wouldn't let them. I got a call from our good friend Cory who told me the ward would be coming to clean up our yard. I told him I didn't want that to happen and he told me to get over it and let the ward help. They came last night and completely cleaned up the yard, from the pictures I've seen it looks amazing. 

We weren't sure why we moved to West Point, and why we bought a home that didn't have a lot of what we wanted. I now know, we moved here for the people in the ward. We have received so many selfless and many anonymous acts of service. Everyone wants so badly to help with these three little ones. It is comforting to know that once the babies get here I can go to work and know my wife and little ones will get the help they need so I can provide for our family. Thank you to everyone who came out and helped our has offered us kind acts of service.