gloomy welfare project

I have never been on a gloomy welfare project. I have climbed trees and picked lemons, peeled fruit, tended boiler, carried boxes, unloaded trucks, cleaned the cannery, and a thousand and one other things, but the things I remember most are the laughing and the singing and the good fellowship of people engaged in the service of the Lord.


Howard W. Hunter, Pure Religion: The Story of Church Welfare Since 1930 by Glen L. Rudd. 1995. P.379. Originally in "Welfare and the Relief Society," Relief Society Magazine, Apr. 1962, p. 238.