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Mormon Youth Serve in Their Communities

SALT LAKE CITY — This past weekend over 300 teenage members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in two cities provided invaluable service to their communities.

In Corona, California, 250 youth volunteered to bring four houses up to city code. Corona’s Code Enforcement Division identified the houses that needed structural or aesthetic improvements. Local businesses, as well as Church members, donated all the resources needed to improve the homes. Projects included painting and installing sprinkler systems. (Read more in the Press Enterprise.)

Milwaukee County Zoo in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was saved hundreds of hours of work when 109 Mormon youth volunteered to paint benches, spread mulch and build fences. (Read more in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.)

“I am constantly amazed at the vast amount of volunteer service which our people give,” President Gordon B. Hinckley said in the April 2003 general conference of the Church. “I am convinced that volunteer service is the Lord’s way of accomplishing His work.”

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