A little back story: After the big storm Chris and I were out of power for about 2 days. We woke up one of the days and our thermostat read 54 degrees. We decided that if our power was out for another day we would spend the night at someones house because that was just to cold. We part of our back fence break, but Chris ran out and picked up all the pieces and put them in our garage and when it mellowed out, he put the fence back up. Other than that we had no damage.
Sunday we woke up bright and early to get ready for church and made it on time (yes!) to our 9:00 am church. Our stake is set up backwards, and we have sacrament last. I went to relief society and Chris went to priesthood, and then we met back up for Sunday school. We went into the Chapel for gospel doctrine and about half way through one of the ward clerks came in and announced that the just got word from the Stake President that there was so to be another storm and he wanted to cancel services and have everyone go out and do service (good ol' ox in the myer syndrome). The concern was that with the next wind storm there would be a lot more debris because of all the trees that were already down. It was kind of scary, but before we left everyone met in the Chapel and we had a ward "family" prayer and all went home to break our fast and change our clothes.
Chris and I went home and ate and changed our clothes and took the dog out to go potty and then ran to his Grandpa Jacobs house to help with their trees (they still didn't have power). Once we got their trees taken care of and ran to the dump with Chris's step-dad, we ran home and started to help out with our ward. It was amazing to me how much our ward got done in so little time. We had the entire ward cleaned up in a matter of hours. A task that seemed a bit daunting when you looked at all the huge trees our neighbors had lost. I took some pictures of the work being down (I wish I would have taken pictures of the before, but I didn't think about it in time). Around 2:00 Chris and I went home and changed out of our sap covered clothes and went to his Grandma and Grandpa Doxey's for dinner.
When the day was done Chris and I were talking and we felt like we had met more people and gotten to know more people with this "natural disaster" then we would have if it was just a regular church day. Although there was damage done and people didn't have power, I truly have a greater love for my littler ward and know that they would do anything in their power to help us out in a time of need.
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It's sad that it sometimes takes a tragedy to get people together. It makes one want to be a better person though, to have those good feelings of helping others and a sense of community to continue.
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