On Monday, April 21st, many of the missionaries living in Cowboy Village participated in a service project to clean up the village and leave it better that it was when we first moved in. During the winter months, the wind had blown large tumbleweeds into the fence, and other campers had left behind logs, plastic utensils, bottle caps, broken glass, rope and lots of other assorted garbage. It took about 40 of us less than an hour to clean up the entire area. We were armed with rakes, shovels and large orange garbage bags. A truck pulling an ATV trailer followed along to collect the garbage bags once they were full and take them to the dumpster. I'm not sure what the final count was on garbage bags, but they filled an entire dumpster.
Here we all are hard at work. We started on the inside
of camp and then moved to the outer perimeter.
You can see the truck stopping to load more
garbage bags onto the trailer.
All clean - no sign of garbage or tumbleweeds anywhere.
Later that night at a gathering for Family Home Evening (FHE), Elder Lundgreen, the Operations Manager, thanked us for cleaning Cowboy Village and then added that because it now looked so good they were going to raise our nightly rent - that got a good laugh from the crowd.
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