What a great evening our scout troop had Friday night December 9, 2022. We started out by helping the Fairmont Food Pantry put together  200 Christmas Boxes. I found out that our troop has been doing this for 25 years. This project was done in less than an hour. I could not believe we did all that work in that short of time. If you think about the Scout Oath and where it states a scout “should help other people at all times” I could not think of a better project to fulfill this statement.

Once we completed the Christmas Boxes and ate the pizza  that was supplied by the Fairmont Pantry We jumped back on our troop bus and headed back to Trinity Epicopal Church in Independence for a night of fun and a night of friendship.  The Scouts played games and talked until 11:30 AM when we were asked to go to bed. I was ready to hit the hay.

On Saturday morning we picked up our sleeping gear and cleaned up our scout room and headed upstairs to a great breakfast made by our troop leaders .

I would like to say thank you to all the scouts and especially our troop leaders  who came to the lock-in. Our leaders always see that the scouts have a great time on our troop activities.

I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and ask everyone to remember why we celebrate Christmas.