50 Ways to Serve Your Brother

50 Ways to Serve Your Brother
by Christy Wardle

Plant or weed a garden
Prepare a meal for someone in need
Write a letter of appreciation
Print out a scripture a day, and leave it for someone. Try to find scriptures that address something they might be struggling with, and give comfort.
Pick a person you don't know very well at school and every time you see them, smile and say hello for at least week.
Be a secret friend for someone you don't normally do things with. Find out about their likes and dislikes, hobbies, talents, etc. and plan accordingly.
Make beanbags for a local children's hospital or women's shelter
Read to younger children as part of a Library story time, for a teacher, at a local Boys and Girl's Club/YMCA or daycare.
Volunteer to help out with a Primary sharing time or activity
Everybody loves getting cookies ;o)
Visit a senior center and "adopt" a grandparent. Visit them at least once a week.
Make inspiration packs for the missionaries from your ward and send them out. Include stories, poems, art (or cartoons), anything that will help inspire them, and help them teach.
Collect magazines and books to donate to a senior center or hospital.
Wash windows or windshields
Make copies of your family recipes, and give them to friends and family members
Visit the Family History Center nearest you and prepare 3 names for baptism
Make blankets for your local children's hospital or NICU
Learn how to knit or crochet, and make potholders or dish cloths for the local homeless shelter (to use in the soup kitchen)
Have a winter clothing drive and donate the clothes to your local homeless shelter
Pick up litter in the park
Tutor an elementary student in math, reading or another subject you are proficent at
Go tracting with the missionaries
Make a "rainy day" or "Sacrament Quiet Time" kit for a busy mom to use with her children. Include coloring pages *printed from the web*, games, puzzles, etc.
Vacuum someone's living or family room
Rake up leaves
Collect cans of food for your local food bank
Help to clean the church building every week for a month
Volunteer to say the opening or closing prayer in one of your church meetings for a month (this includes activities).
Help to sort clothes at a thrift store like the Salvation Army, Deseret Industries or Goodwill
Wash dishes at home every night for a month. Or, volunteer to wash dishes at the next ward activity.
Take an elderly person's dog for regular walks
Volunteer at the animal shelter
Hug at least three people a day
Let someone go in front of you at the checkout line or in traffic
Volunteer to babysit so a mother can go grocery or Holiday shopping
Make and freeze single servings of different sauces, etc. and take the frozen meals to a widow or widower to eat when they need them. Write the cooking instructions on the bags, or tape them to the bags.
Help to take Enrichment Night fliers, Newsletters, etc. to the homes of ward members
Write weekly letters to missionaries from your ward
Ask the missionaries if you can help them mark Books of Mormon
Write down your testimony and make copies for the mission office to put in Books of Mormon to be handed out.
Mow lawns
Make teddy bears for the local police or fire department to give to kids they rescue (FREE PATTERN)
Help a child in primary memorize the Articles of Faith
Mend clothes and replace buttons
Teach someone to read
Help someone to paint a fence or house
Go through your jewelery, shoes and clothes. Take what you don't wear anymore to a women's shelter.
Interview an older relative and tape your conversation. Afterwards, type up the history, and send copies to your family.
Read a book a day to a child for a month