All of the Achievement Girls met at the Malad City Cemetery with their garden
gloves and hand shovels to plant flowers for Memorial Day.
The girls "dug" right in to plant pretty pink flowers.
The caretaker of the grounds had sprinklers going on the area we were to plant,
so it was too muddy to plant the bushes.
Rhonda Neal told us how her mother was asked to be in charge of beautifying
the cemetery many years ago.
Her organization had raised money to plant 1000 trees.
Rhonda now carries on that responsibility of beautifying the cemetery.
Her mother loved the color pink and that is why Rhonda plants pink flowers.
Rhonda shared so much history of the cemetery,
I think the girls really enjoyed it, I know I did.
The girls were intrigued with many different headstones, specially the ones for little
babies. They wanted to know why that child had died.
They would get down to read and touch the headstones.
While there a women asked for help in finding her ancestors, so Rhonda showed
the girls where the map of the cemetery was and how to read it.
The girls were quick to find the women's family headstones.
They sat and listened to stories of her family and then she asked who each
of the girls families were. She then let the girls help her place her flowers.
Today was a wonderful opportunity to give service and learn the importance of
family history.
