29 October 2018

This was our last week of going out and doing hurricane cleanup. We ended up with over 500 people on Sunday! That was so cool, and it ended up being the longest time I've ever seen it take to pass the sacrament. We didn't have nearly enough trays to carry all of the cups we needed, so we had to refill a few trays. It was a really spiritual sacrament meeting. The cleanup wasn't super intense from a workload point of view, we had a ton of teams and not that many work orders left. There was a trailer park that hadn't even been touched yet, but we came there with over 200 people and left only a few hours later having mucked out all 18 trailers. The owner was so grateful. We had two people that we are teaching there, too, Jay and Osvaldo. It was fun working with them. Because of the service equipment taking up all of the space, we weren't able to baptize Jay this weekend, but it is planned for this Saturday. We're so excited for him! It's taken two months or so and two hurricanes, but it's finally happening! That'll be the big news for this upcoming week. I've uploaded more pictures to the Hurricane Florence folder, and those are the last additions. However, we helped someone else that we're teaching clean up all the grass and branches from his yard, and then we had a bonfire. We taught him by the fire, and went home smelling very much like smoke. If you got within five feet of it, it was painfully hot. It was pretty cool. For whatever reason, they also threw a couple of old tires in there as well. Those burned way hot.