Another Youth Night, Another Great Turnout

Last week I wrote about the great turnout we had from the youth. I didn’t think it could be much better. But last night surprised us with even more youth turning out to help with the orchard. In fact the turnout was so great and the number of cars trying to get into the orchard at the same time caught us flat footed. We just don’t always have enough service missionaries to do all the jobs that need to be done. That is why all you volunteers signing up is so important. We can better prepare. The sign up sheet when we printed it about 3 PM, had about 80 people signed up. In the half hour between 6:30 and 7:00 over 250 showed up. And what you did was absolutely great. All y’all (That’s Texas which means everyone, y’all is singular) finished “de-blooming” all the trees in the orchard.

De-blooming is needed on certain trees when the tree needs to have more ‘structure’ so it can be more and better fruit in the future. If the tree is allowed to blossom and grow fruit, its energy goes into growing fruit and not making a better tree. It is grand efforts like what happened last night that helps this orchard produce such an abundant harvest each year. So everything you do helps us. The orchard can be very demanding to manage and maintain so for all of us service missionaries, our heartfelt thanks to all of you for doing this.

And the ice cream was good too.

Thanks again. The orchard service missionaries.