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I know that it's so hard to find modest prom
dresses these days.
I have so many memories of going to stores and looking
and looking and finding the good one and it being too
expensive or finding one that worked and just thinking, why
would I spend all this money on something I have to alter?
I just thought it would be good to have one place where
you could go and know that you could borrow some modest, good
dresses and not have to pay.
I had an idea of just going around and asking institutes
and people who have already graduated for dresses, if we
could have them and maybe rent them out.
Of course being in young women, the first thought that
came to my mind is what a great personal progress
project that would be.
Thinking that I would be a 10-hour project,
I started on it.
And since then it's really grown and
it's a lot more work.
We went through the Institute and through Facebook with
friends of people who were older, and the result was 195
dresses within two or three months.
So some of the dresses were modest and some weren't.
Their goal is to make every dress that they have modest.
For mutual a few times the young women would get together
and all the leaders and we'd get a few ladies in the ward
who knew how to sew just to bring their sewing machines
and teach all the young women how to make
shrugs for all the dresses.
Yeah.
A shrug is a little jacket that you can wear over a dress
and it's able to cover your shoulders and your back and
your arms.
I've learned that service makes you happy and it makes
you feel like you're doing something important.
It makes you feel good about yourself.
I really feel like none of this would have happened if it
wasn't for the service of other people.
I really love just taking the girls in and
showing them dresses.
They're really excited and it's just fun.
And it makes me feel good that--
I know what it's like to go shopping and how hard it is.
And it's just nice to know that I have that many dresses
in there that I know that they'll like.
What we finally decided was to take a deposit of $30, a
fully-refundable deposit when they came and took the dress.
And then their responsibility is to get dressed dry cleaned
and have it come back in good condition.
And when they bring it back they get their full $30 back.
Their hope was that the dresses would come back even
more modest and more fashionable, and they have.
When I went to prom a lot of the girls in our group
actually used some of the dresses from my project.
And when I see someone who's modest, I feel like they
understand who they are.
With Charity, of course she has a whole slew of younger
sisters that are watching and she has tremendous effect on
the people around her.
As me and my friends are modest, we're always
comfortable.
We have a fun time.
We love each other for who we are.
Modesty is, I think, a really big part to
living a virtuous life.
I think that's really important, that we're willing
to follow the leaders in our church and our prophet and do
things they've asked us, even if it means being different.
And you do you feel different when you go and you're modest.
but it's a good different.
And there's a confidence that comes.
And when you have other friends that are modest, it
makes it so much easier.
The benefit of having a young woman who has a virtuous heart
it's tremendous.
And Charity has done that in all areas, but especially I've
appreciated that she's been able to work on this project.
She's been a great example for everybody around her.
When you know you're doing right and you're living a good
life and trying to do what the Lord wants you to do, there's
a light that comes into your life and people do notice it.