Last Saturday, Rachelle organized a gathering of neighbors, ward members, choir members, family and friends to come with flowers to the house and plant them all throughout Rachel's yard. Rachel has always loved flower gardens: almost more so than anything else. She has carried that love to my mom's yard where she has always kept the prettiest of flowers. Rachel mustard up all the strength she had to try and be present for all her visitors, but towards the end, when just her family was left, she fell into a deep exhaustion with Mom, Becca and Jennifer around her. It was emotional to see Rachel joyful about the flowers, but so sad to know that she would never see them fully bloom and return year after year. After everyone had left and Rachel had gotten a little rest, Mike took her outside to show her all the flowers that had been planted by the tens of people, around 50, that had come to plant beauty into her yard.
Now, each year, as Spring comes, Mike will have a sweet reminder of his sweet wife Rachel, and the expression of pure love and kindness shown her by the tens of people that loved Rachel and wanted her to never be forgotten.
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