Volunteering to Help Create a Zion Community

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Why do I volunteer?
I volunteer for so many reasons. I volunteer...

• to gain experience
• to feel as if I'm a part of something greater
• to give back in anyway I can for all that I have been given
• because I feel good when I do
• as a way to get to know other people
• it is a commandment to serve
• because I know it is the right thing to do.

In what ways do you contribute to the culture of the office?

I personally contribute to the office culture through my Tweets, being friends with others, saying hi, trying to be friendly and positive, attempting to work hard and stay of task....Actually, as I think about it. A better question is: In what ways do myself and others not contribute to the office culture? I can't see any.

In other words, every action--in some way--contributes to the culture that we are creating in the BYUSA office this year. Thinking about it this way makes me feel a lot more responsibility towards the way I uphold myself while in the BYUSA office.

What can you do individually to help make our BYU a Zion community?

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I hope this counts as answering the question but there I want to answer this question in a slightly different direction. There are a lot of things that I can do, but there is one thing that I want to set a strong goal to work towards and that is consistently greeting--at minimal smiling at--people as I walk by them. The people of Sierra Leone taught me an amazing lesson: To greet people, even complete strangers, as you pass. In fact, if you pass someone there without greeting them, they will get offended and feel that you are rude. Everyday, we pass numerous people. Imagine how much more friendly the world would be if we just took half a second's thought to smile and wave...