Neighborly Love

In the spirit of doing service within our group I'll share my little moment. About 6 weeks ago I moved into a cute little cul-de-sac.I had heard great things about my neighbors and was looking forward to getting to know them. While I was in Utah I would kind of dream about how fun it would be to live in a neighborhood again with lots of people from other faiths. I told myself I would be that neighbor who would reach out and get to know my neighbors and be the best member missionary I could be. For the past several weeks I'll see my neighbors going to and from their cars, but there really hasn't been any acknowledging of anyone. I have been itching to get out and meet them. Today was the day. Today I made some pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. My roommate Kansas (yes, that really is her name) and I packaged them up with cute ribbon and tied a little card to it letting people know who we are and we left our contact info on it. We only made it to half the houses, but the people who were home invited us in. They were so warm and so grateful that we stopped by. They were totally Southern and told us to call them for anything and already talked about inviting us to the upcoming neighborhood get togethers. One of the ladies talked about how she passes out jello shots to all the neighbors at Halloween. I responded with, "Oh nice!" When we got home I asked Kansas, "Do those jell-o shots have alcohol in them?" She said, "Yeah, I figured you didn't know that when you responded with so much enthusiasm." Nice one Jules. :) It was just nice to see how something so small can really go so far. I'm excited to make new friends with these people and build a little neighborhood family. :)