Pay It Forward Mystery Cache
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The church youth group of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Taylorsville Gardens 2nd Ward presents a new idea for this geocache site. This is a service geocache site. The idea is to promote kindness and charity to our friends and neighbors and even strangers. This idea is based upon the theme for this year which is:
“Be steadfast and immovable, always abounding in good works” (Mosiah 5:15).
The world can seem like an unfriendly, threatening place, yet we all want safety, health, and happiness for ourselves and our loved ones. How can one ordinary person—you or me—make a positive difference in this world? One way is the practice of “paying it forward.” While the steps might be simple, the outcome could change the world.
Steps:
1. Enclosed in this ammo can are index cards with service ideas on them. Your job is to choose a service card and then go home and do it. You will also need to fill in a blank index card with a service idea of your own and leave it in the ammo can for somebody else to choose. Once you do that please report what you did and how it made you feel and what happened on the geocache website. You can change people’s attitudes about the world through your unobtrusive acts of kindness. Please sign and date the log book.
2. Be attentive wherever you are for opportunities to help someone. Perhaps you have an elderly or disabled neighbor who is too proud to ask for help with their yard work; or maybe you’re in a restaurant and see someone who looks like they could use some kind stranger to pay for their meal. Or maybe you have a friend that is feeling down and needs a “pick-me-up.” Or you could leave a $10 bill in some “random person’s” mailbox. The possibilities are endless (more ideas listed on the next page).
3. Do something nice for someone you don’t know (or don’t know very well). It should be something significant, and not for a person from whom you expect a good deed—or anything at all, for that matter—in return.
4. Spread the word. If the person thanks you and wants to “repay” you (that is, pay it “back”), let them know that what you’d really like is for them to pay it “forward”—you’d like them to visit the “Pay It Forward” Geocache site and do something nice for someone else. The idea is to consciously increase the goodness of the world.
5. Pay it forward. When you notice that somebody has done something nice for you, make a note in your mind to practice acts of kindness towards other people, as described in Step 2. Feel free to visit this geocache site as often as you like.
6. You have one week to accomplish the service that you chose.
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