Kindness Corner Archive

 



Brighten your families day.  Change everyone's bed linens and use a nice smelling fabric softener.  Place a short note on each person's pillow reminding them you love them!

  Did you know that the church has a Humanitarian website?  You can color ABC books, make teddy bears, make children's books and more!  What a great service project for you and/or your family, for Family Night, Youth Service Project, or no reason at all!  Check it out and see if there is a project you would be willing to do....

Choose to forgive someone instead of hold a grudge.

Offer to take an elderly person a doctor appointment and keep them company.

Say hi to someone new.

To be kind to yourself.  Take time to do something for yourself....whether it be a long soak in the tub, making time to read your favorite book, or doing something you've always wanted to do.  YOU are important too and you need to take care of yourself.

Going out to dinner?  Ask one of your visiting teaching sisters to come along.  It is a fun and relaxed way for her to get to know you and/or your family.

Invite a neighbor or inactive sister to Enrichment Night.

Give someone a flower.

Write a letter to a missionary.  This time of year can be hard....send some cheer.  No one knows, like a missionary, the joy it brings to see a letter in the mailbox!!

Call someone who is homebound and ask if they would like you to do their Christmas shopping for them.

  Say thank you to someone who has helped you today....whether it is someone who opened a door for you, someone who was extremely patient with you, or simply showed you a kindness...make sure to say thank you.

Help a neighbor prepare their yard or house for winter.

  Pay for someone's lunch today.

  In your personal prayers, ask a blessing for someone who has been unkind to you.

  Invite someone who sits alone in church to come and sit by you, or you go sit by them.

  Hold open a door for someone else as you enter or exit a building and give them a smile.

  Make a donation to a good cause.

  Be a peacemaker in your family by not arguing with others.

Randomly
offer to baby sit another persons children for a few hours.

  Author Brooke Astor has said, "Power is the ability to do good things for others."  At work (whether that be in an office or at home), seek to give three genuine compliments today.  Either to one person or three different people, but do your best!

  Willingly let someone in traffic that is trying to merge over.

  Give a hug to someone today.

  Invite someone to have lunch with you.

  Play a board game with your children tonight.  How long has it been?  Let them have some personal time with you.  Don't have kids?  Call up a neighbor, a visiting teacher, friend or relative and invite them over to play a game.  What a great way to renew a friendship.

  Are you going grocery shopping today?  Return your grocery basket in the stall after you are finished instead of leaving it by your vehicle.  And why not take someone else's along the way?

  Today call, write, or e-mail that distant relative...if you are e-mailing, please do more than just forward silly stories and scare tactics to each other. 

  Look everyone in the eye and say hello as you pass each person in the hall today at church.  Call them by name and smile.


Today's mission is the "I was doing it anyway principle".  Examples: If you have to go to a grocery store anyway- call and ask a homebound individual if you can pick up anything for them.  If you have to drive to a meeting anyway- call and invite someone else who also has to go to ride with you.  If you are cooking anyway- cook a little something for a person who is sick.  If you have to take your garbage can out to the curb- walk across the street and also take your neighbors can out to the street.  You get the idea.

Leave a note of love or praise where a loved one will find it.

  Have a prayer specifically for  someone who is on your mind or could use help.  Pray to know how to best help them.  Follow the guidance of the Spirit.

 

This page was  last  updated: 
November 1, 2007

 

Home  |  SugarDoodle ShoppeMy Favorite Websites  |  View all Subjects  |   Contact Me