and the rains came down

Well from talking to friends and family across the country I have found out that the NE pennsylvania flooding was not as big of a deal as I thought. Anyway, about three weeks ago most of our area was under water (except out house) even all the freeways were underwater so there was no escaping. Clean up is stil underway almost a month later and to top off the bad news it has been raining almost nonstop for the past 10 days. We have only had sacrament meeting for the past couple of weeks so that we can volunteer our time on the weekends to the clean up. we went with a few members of our ward last sunday helped fill dumpsters with peoples belongings, and took nails out of studs so a family could hang new drywall. I was exhausted when we came home even thought we have not done near as much as other members have been able to. I am so grateful we were able to give service to the area