Denver Soup Kitchen

Today the kiddos didn't have school, so Tanner went to play with McKenna Blatter and Dallin, Ashlynn,  Peyton, Kennedi & I drove up to down town Denver and helped with the Soup Kitchen. We got there about 10:30, threw aprons on and went around the front room of the church, where there were a ton of homeless people sitting on chairs around long tables. The kids were given a bunch of candy to hand out to the people. They loved that! They all wanted chocolate. We also handed out frozen chicken and frozen cherries. Then we laid out a bunch of clothes on tables so that people could come in and "shop" for what they need. We were able to go down to the basement to find coats and backpacks for people that were in great need.

During the lunch hour, Dallin went around and helped people with their trays, and then scraped food off of dirty plates.

Peyton and Kennedi stacked up dirty cups and mugs to get ready to be washed. I pulled out the clean cups and mugs from the dishwasher, stacked them and ran them outside.

 I think Ashlynn had the hardest job! She had to wear a rubber apron and gloves to keep her dry as she sprayed all of the food off of the trays. We finally left around 2:40, against Ashlynn's wishes. I was so proud of her, she worked hard and kept saying, "I don't want to go home yet." - I think she would have stayed all night!

And Kennedi kept saying, "This is fun!" I think the kids definitely saw a different way of life, and some hard things. Apparently there are about 800 homeless people in Denver. There is a lot of good to be done!