Service to our Elbows

Yeay!!!! We get to play in the snow....come join us!
Sister Thompson is breaking up the ice and snow so the snow blower can get the job done, then we will follow and pick and scrape the ice.
Elder Georges digging out Sister Thompson's mail box. Only missionaries know how important it is to make it easy for the mailman.
We love those big boy toys that make the job much easier and faster.
Doug - "you know how good it feels to be driving a truck? - HEAVENLY!!!"
Here we are at Burgos's home. Bro Burgos taking care of the snow so we can get to work on the think layer of ice underneath it all. ( I'll bet all the "big boys" were wishing they could play on the man toy.)
Having to pull out the heavy equipment for this job.
Check out the thickness of the ice we had to break up and shovel off.
Job is done dude!!!! Now that was a long drive way.

We love serving others, especially in the snow. We shoveled and picked and scraped ice at both Loretta Thompsons and Mama Burgos's homes. We first started at Loretta's. The interesting thing about the snow build-up on her driveway is that it had a bottom ice layer, about an inch, and then two or three inches of snow, then it had another half inch layer of ice, then about 6 inches of snow followed by another layer of ice. We started near the road and had to shovel and pick away the snow that piles up from the snow plow. That was really difficult to get thru. Doug was missing his truck. said: "If I had my truck here I would go get the snow blower at the church and haul it over here and have this done in 2 seconds." Elder Shakespear piped up and responded with "I'll bet Home Depot has trucks that you can rent like Lowes does." That got us thinking. The only member in our little branch that has a truck is the Murphy's and they live 25 minutes away. Home Depot is just 5 miles away. Elder Shakespear got on the phone, called Home Depot for rental prices and Doug was gone in a flash. This made all of our lives much easier all though we still had to break up the snow and ice so the snow blower could go thru it better. Still the bottom layer had to be broken up and scraped and shovel. After a couple hours at sister Thompson's we took the truck back to Home Depot, grabbed a bite to eat and ate as we drove the 25 minutes to Mama Burgos's home in Livingston Manor, a little town up in the "mountains". (They don't know what mountains are.)

At the Burgos home we found most of the snow shovel to the side but a very think layer of ice. Bro. Burgos has a little tractor unit with a plow blade. So the snow is gone but it won't touch the ice. Because his driveway slants down to the road, the ice in the ditch was about 10 inches thick. Doug had to dig in the trunk of our car for the axe he purchased when we were in the middle of our wood service project. Of course the pictures don't really do the job justice. But the sore backs and arms from picking, scraping and shoveling, were very evident. We have all walked around with a little less spring in our step for a couple of days.