Winter Mission News

Hi Gang, This is taken at the home of the Da Silva's, a recently baptized family in Carthage. The Elders and I have been helping him with an old home he is redoing so that his family can live in it. They are a great family and a real asset to the ward.  He had to sheet rock the whole place after removing all the old lath and plaster, to upgrade the plumbing and electrical.  I worked on some finish plumbing and the Elders were sanding and taping.  We have managed to keep busy despite the weather, which has been cold and snowy.  They are running out of places to put the snow.  Huge piles are all over, they are loading it into dump trucks and dumbing it in the river.  It was kind of fun at first all the snow, but it's beginning to get old. They cancelled both wards today because of the snow.  When have you ever seen church cancelled because of the weather.  The members at Ft Drum couldn't get out of their driveways.  There was a good 2 ft over night.  At family home evening this week a recently returned soldier from Iraq brought two nonmembers friends. One was from Russia and was Jewish, the other a chaplain's assistant.  They were impressed with the building and enjoyed the change from the barracks.  We took three of the young spouses to dinner last night, two of their husbands just left for Afghanistan.  One is inactive and just lost her brother in Iraq two months ago, he had been in the Special Forces for 11 years, and now her husband is gone.  These spouses are great, it's uplifting just being around them. We miss you all, take care of the little one for us.  Love Mom and Dad