SERVICE CHALLENGES
'When ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God' (Mosiah 2:17).
1. Give special service to your own family. If you are not living at home, this service may involve roommates or members of a home evening group.
2. Give consistent service to the Church in addition to your church calling(s).
3. Give significant service to individuals or groups outside your immediate family.
4. Teach an art or skill to someone who cannot afford to pay for such training or who probably would not cultivate it without your help.
5. Be a special friend to one or more fatherless or motherless children and take them to worthwhile programs or activities, such as cultural or sports events, camping trips, or outings.
6. Assist the elderly, divorcees, those living alone, or others who may need help with household chores, lawn cutting, snow-shoveling, repair jobs, or yard work.
7. Fellowship new members of the Church or new ward members. Help orient them to the Latter-day Saint way of life, or assist them in making the transition into the ward family.
8. Write uplifting and encouraging letters regularly to a missionary, a serviceman, a friend or an absent member of your ward other that oe of your immediate family. Continue writing even if the recipient's schedule does not permit an answer.
9. Assist people whose activities are restricted, such as those in nursing homes and hospitals or those who have some mental or physical handicap. Under priesthood direction, perhaps through the Relief Society, visit them, read to them, or otherwise assist in any appropriate manner.
10. Check with appropriate leaders and parents and assist a child needing help with homework, physical activity, or cultural enrichment.
11. Give your time and physical talent to a meaningful project, serving in such positions as coach in an athletic program, youth camp program director, director of a neighborhood sports clinic, den mother, or volunteer teacher's aide.
12. Under priesthood direction, visit orison inmates. Ring them hope and encouragement through participation in uplifting projects and activities.
13. Participate in a group effort to provide books and recent publications for prisons, hospitals, convalescent homes, and libraries.
14. Through the bishop or branch president, contribute toward the financial support of a full-time missionary.
15. Go beyond what is specifically requested and serve the bishop or ward organizations in the preparation, decoration, or clean-up of an activity.
16. Many other service activities may be selected. Use your imagination and prayerfully consider which service activity would be most beneficial to those in need.