The No Cussing Club

Hello, all!

This is the first week of March. I hope you all are aware of that. Each month, the LDS church sends out several church magazines: the Friend, the Ensign, the Liahona, and the New Era. The Friend is geared towards younger children, the New Era is directed towards teenagers, and the Ensign is made mainly for adults. I was reading through the New Era this month, and I found a really inspiring story (Janet Thomas, "No Cussing Club," New Era March 2009, page 33).

McKay Hatch was a twelve-year old boy in Pasadena, California just starting middle school. He was bothered by the amount of bad language he heard every day, especially that of his friends. He told his friends that if they wanted to hang out with him, they had to stop swearing. They agreed, and McKay decided to start a club, a No Cussing Club.



At their first meeting, a surprising amount of people came. That group grew through opposition and now has members and branches of the club in all 50 states and in 35 countries. There are T-shirts, wristbands, and a Web site: http://www.nocussing.com/ The club wanted to have a week of no swearing in their city. They wrote to the city council and March 3-7, 2008, was declared Cuss-Free week. During March of this year, Los Angeles is going to have a Cuss-Free Week.



This is a really inspiring story about one boy who wanted to change something, so he got together a bunch of people and changed it. Now look at the positive difference he made in the world. This can be your inspiring moment of the week.

Quote of the Day:
"The function of leaders is to produce more leaders, not more followers."
-Ralph Nader (1934 - Present)

David