Helping Hands

Grab a shovel and let's get to work. Elder Wilkinson, Easthope, Shakespear, George, Ellett, along with the FM guys, Lewis and Alex all spent several hours today on the roof of our chapel shoveling and chipping ice off the roof.
Elder Wilkinson found out that jumping on a pile of ice is a little different than a pile of snow.
Let's brake for a quick bite to eat and drink
Just cleaning up, washing up all the pans that were collecting the water in all the rooms.
Now let me show you all how it is done.
There is going to be some sore muscles tomorrow after all the shoveling.
It was hard to predict where the next drip would come from. The RS room was hit the worst. 10 rooms were damaged from the water dripping thru the rafters. It came out in the light fixtures, vents and then just randomly everywhere.
Elder Easthope raking the roof

We love the snow except when it causes major problems in the chapel. As I understand it, when the bottom layer of the snow melts because the heat in the building is on, it tends to melt enough to allow it to pool in areas and in there lies the problem. Several places in the building started leaking water, and soon almost every room in the church building was dripping water from the ceiling. Thus the pans everywhere trying to catch the water. We put the elders busy shoveling and chipping the snow and ice off the roof. What we would do without those helping hands.

At the end of the day we learned that the big wigs are closing the building until further notice. We will have to find somewhere that we can rent to hold church in. A Conference room at a motel is the idea we will check into. But for right now, we will travel to New Burgh, which is an hour away to attend church. Middletown's building, that is only 30 minutes away, is under construction. And they are all traveling to the New Burgh chapel for church also.