Service...

On April 21st, our ward had a service project at Hollywood Cemetery.  Hollywood Cemetery is a famous cemetery here in Richmond and is the resting place of two US presidents, James Monroe and John Tyler, and the Confederate States President, Jefferson Davis.  It's a beautiful place and it overlooks the James River.  For the service project, we were asked to clean it up and uncover some of the headstones that had weeds and plants growing over them.  Not too bad right?

Well I didn't think it was bad either until a week later when a red rash started showing up all over my body.  It turned out to be poison ivy.  It was horrible.  It was all over my arms and legs, some of my neck and my stomach! (Yes, my stomach- I have no idea how it got there! I was wearing my yellow, helping hands shirt the whole time!!) And just for the record, I wasn't the only one who got it.       My arms got it the worst.  They were so swollen and red.  It was miserable.  I tried so many different things to get rid of it.  Todd and I were looking up and asking people daily for different remedies to try.  It's now been a month since the service project and my skin is almost all the way healed.  Just a few dry spots and red areas to go.
 A word to the wise... Leaves of three, let them be!