This past Thursday I had a chance to experience my favorite part of the FFA Motto, "Living to Serve," as Sydney, Katie and I delivered blankets to a Veterans home outside of the cities.
After an interesting college orientation experience the three of us soon to be Freshmen at the University of Minnesota, hustled over to Roseville to pick up nearly 80 tie blankets made by you, the members, at the 79th Minnesota State Convention. After cramming 7 boxes of blankets into my small Grand Prix Katie, Sydney, and I headed out for the veterans home. Katie tried giving Syd and I directions from the back which turned out to be more hilarious than you'd think. She was not visible unless you were outside of my car, due to all of the boxes in the back.
After our interesting ride, with even more interesting directions, we had arrived at the veterans home. The donations coordinator was more than excited to accept the blankets on the behalf of Minnesota FFA.
This act of service was one of the first of our year of service. As we continue our journey as state officers we will have many more opportunities, like this one, to serve. This was very exciting.
Stationed by the Rising Sun,
Derek
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