Impact

"I’ve been volunteering with Living to L.A.S.T. for almost five years. When I started I was in 8th grade and I wasn’t much help on a job site. I liked demolition and lunch and that covered it for me. But I kept coming and the more I came the more I learned and the more I learned the more I could do and the more I could do the more I grew. Not just physically or in practical skill but I matured and learned self control. The men of L2L taught me that a guy can lead a team without being aggressive, threatening, or violent. They taught me that encouraging someone is just as effective, if not more, than correcting and disheartening them. They taught me that love and joy is a more powerful motivator than fear and all its accomplices. Then, just this year, I got pulled off my project assignment and given a new one, I was given a team to lead, and I got to use everything I had learned from the men of Living to L.A.S.T. Working alongside them, helping them and teaching them. Looking back on these five years I see that Living to L.A.S.T. and its members helped shape me into who I am today, they taught me skills I use both everyday and others I only use when something breaks. Without them I would be a very different person and I am more than thankful for the impact this organization and the people in it have had on me and my life."