Don Sherwood Family Blog: Transfer 1, Week 2: The Service Flood

Elder Ritchie and I in front of a 1917 ford, built in Canada

Hey everyone,
It's has been a really crazy week. It felt as if it would never end, but here we are.
The whole week seemed to be just one thing after another. We were up in Missoula for zone conference, when we missed a few calls from people in our area. (The phone was on silent, since we were in meetings.) Apparently, there was a massive flood happening over in our area of the Great Falls Stake. The towns that were being affected were Augusta, Simms, Vaughn, Sunriver, and a tiny bit of Fairfield. This was quite alarming to us, who were 2.5 hours away at the time. Assessing the situation, we decided to leave the conference early, and go help with the flood as much as we could.
We were about 1/2 way back before the highway was closed off because if the flooding, so we turned, and went almost all the way down to Helena, and took I-15 back up to Great Falls. That supposed to be 2.5 hour drive turned into almost a 5 hour drive because if that detour.😥 that was a long time to be stuck in a tiny Tacoma with 4 other elders. We took Elder Ritchie, me, Elder Walker, Elder Ferarra, and Elder Wilcox. Because we could only fit 5 people in the car, Elder Hallett decided to stay behind. It was a really long drive.
When we finally got there, we went to work finding some way around the road closed signs, so we could help do some sandbagging. That was a lot of fun. We were there till almost 9pm, so we made arrangements for Elder Hallet to stay in Great Falls, and we went to home, and the other Elders stayed at our place that night. It became an adventure to get him back, but we did.
On Wednesday, we had plans to go get more sandbags done, but we got a call that a lady had her basement flood in the street over from ours. So we spent the greater part of the afternoon cleaning it out.
The rest of the week, we spent in Augusta cleaning up after the flood. We met some great people in doing so. It was a pretty tiring week.
One the coolest moments was on our way to Augusta on Thursday. We stopped by the Hank's place to see what we could do, and we got to see a 1917 ford car that was built in Canada. Br. Hank was replacing the radiator, but he said that it was still in working condition, and that it cruises nicely around 30 mph. That was awesome to see such an antique car.
I was so glad when Sunday came around. We got to go to ward council in Sunriver, and spent a bit of time studying. We went tracting and found 2 new investigators. Overall, it was a great week.
I have been thinking a lot lately about how the Book of Mormon can teach us about any principle we want to understand more fully. I am doing the same challenge I gave to you all a couple weeks ago, (to read the Book of Mormon, with a principle in mind, marking every instance of that principle,and writing the thoughts of your heart every time you finish for the day. ) and I know that it has brought a lot better understanding Faith, the principle I chose, to me. And I know it can for you as well. And I promise that when you do so, you can/will see little miracles in your understanding, and will have a more full knowledge and faith on that principle.
Though this week has been crazy, I love it, and I hear that it doesn't get much calmer for a while.

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