SAFETY MEETING SATURDAY 5 NOVEMBER
Before we go out to our project we all meet in the Relief Society room for a safety meeting and a prayer. Today two of the sisters in the ward had sandwiches, fruit, cookies, pastries and water ready for us to pack into brown paper sacks to take for lunch.
CREW
Some of todays crew: Bishop Carron, Elder Martin, Elder Arveseth, Elder Rawlins and John Carron.
KATIE MOORE
This is Katie Moore. She is a 69 year old widow who owns the single wide trailer that we worked on. Her husband of 48 years died in May this year so she has had to face this trial on her own. She was very upbeat and spunky and not going to let this get her down. She has lost almost everything and only a few belongings were salvaged.
GUTTING THE TRAILER
The men had to remove all the floors, duct work for the air conditioner and furnace, part of the wood panelling, cupboards and vanities that were all under water. The inside of her trailer had stood in 4 feet of water so everything up to the water line had to be thrown away.
RUBBLE ON THE SIDEWALK
Wheelbarrows and garbage cans were used to carry all the rubble out onto the country road sidewalk ready for the city to pick up and take to the dump.
WATER LINE ON THE BRIDGE
Katie's trailer stands about 40 feet from a canal leading to the Cape Fear River. Five miles away is the Black Foot River which rose 22 feet above its banks. With both rivers rising the whole area was under four feet of water. When they were allowed back after the evacuation, Katie's nephew took her in his motor boat to see the damage to her home. This is the wall of the bridge over the canal. You can see the yellow water line showing how high the river rose.
SAFETY MEETING SUNDAY 6 NOVEMBER 2016
Sunday was another day for Crisis Cleanup by Mormon Helping Hands. Our two faithful sisters, Bess Skipper and Gwen Cannady were ready after church on Sunday with items of food for us to put into sacks for our lunches at the sites.
SAFETY MEETING
We were given permission to come to church in our work clothes to save time going home to change. We packed our lunches, had a prayer and headed out to 3 different projects.
ANOTHER FLOODED HOME
Pat Sneedon is a member of our ward whose home was flooded. We were assigned to her home to help with the clean up. All her belongings had been dragged out of the home and were sitting on the grass in front of her home. You can see the carpets (there were about 5) spread out on the grass.
PAT SNEEDON
This is the owner, Pat Sneedon. Lane and I visited Sister Sneedon the first month we arrived in Leland. At that time she told us she was in a flood zone but had never been affected by any flooding in all the years she had lived there. Well that has now changed. Her home was under 3 feet of water and the black mould could be seen throughout the house growing on the walls.
SIDEWALK PICKUP
We hauled all the furniture and debris to be thrown away, onto the sidewalk ready for pickup by the city. They will take it all to the dump. You can see the empty yard in the background which, a few hours earlier, had been strewn with the rubble.
MISSIONARY WORK
SAFETY MEETING SUNDAY 6 NOVEMBER 2016
Sunday was another day for Crisis Cleanup by Mormon Helping Hands. Our two faithful sisters, Bess Skipper and Gwen Cannady were ready after church on Sunday with items of food for us to put into sacks for our lunches at the sites.
SAFETY MEETING
We were given permission to come to church in our work clothes to save time going home to change. We packed our lunches, had a prayer and headed out to 3 different projects.
ANOTHER FLOODED HOME
Pat Sneedon is a member of our ward whose home was flooded. We were assigned to her home to help with the clean up. All her belongings had been dragged out of the home and were sitting on the grass in front of her home. You can see the carpets (there were about 5) spread out on the grass.
PAT SNEEDON
This is the owner, Pat Sneedon. Lane and I visited Sister Sneedon the first month we arrived in Leland. At that time she told us she was in a flood zone but had never been affected by any flooding in all the years she had lived there. Well that has now changed. Her home was under 3 feet of water and the black mould could be seen throughout the house growing on the walls.
SIDEWALK PICKUP
We hauled all the furniture and debris to be thrown away, onto the sidewalk ready for pickup by the city. They will take it all to the dump. You can see the empty yard in the background which, a few hours earlier, had been strewn with the rubble.
MISSIONARY WORK
We had our usual visits with owners moved, one had died, some not interested and some not willing to answer the door. We did find Brother Lines who is retired. He left the church when he was 15 years old. We were amazed that he is Kayla Lines', who is being taught by the missionaries, grandpa! He was very pleasant and invited us in for a chat. We left him with a pamphlet. We also had a good lesson with a young couple who have been inactive for a number of years. We will visit them again this week. We made our second visit to the county jail to visit an incarcerated member. We took him a Gospel Principles Book and hope he will read it.
PRE-EARTH LIFE SCRIPTURE
"Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou calmest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. (Jeremiah 1: 5)
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