Last night was beautiful weather and I spent a few hours at the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life. It's a fund raising event and lasts all night into the morning. There are teams and the team members take turns walking around the track non stop. My work had a team so I volunteered to participate. I have never been to this kind of event before so I didn't know what to expect. When I got there it was OK... a nice thing to go to... but later in the evening they had a speaker and she had an amazing story on being a cancer survivor. I liked it because she included Heavenly Father and faith in her talk... very uplifting... but as I walked around the track there were luminarias with names of people on them... many that have survived and many that have not. That part was way sad.
I didn't realize how many of these events are scheduled around the valley.
This is our team's shirt
I have to say I didn't walk too many laps... but they did have a special part where we walked a few laps in silence in the dark while nice music played... they had luminarias that spelled out HOPE and then changed into CURE while we were walking.
This is why there are events like this one...
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