Roland had asked the missionaries if
they could assist on Monday. As they had
other obligations that day, they came to help on Tuesday. Unlike the missionaries who had assisted with
Jenna’s fort twelve years ago, the elders who are currently serving this area wore
their street clothes as they were bond to get dirty.
Jenna was so excited when we came home from church one day and discovered a waterfall in the backyard. Roland had diverted the water to run across the yard and toward the water drain.
After a year his diversion was wiped out
somehow and the water would flood our driveway whenever it would rain hard. The
reason Roland wanted assistance was to cut into the clay (that is what lies
beneath the hill in our backyard. It
isn’t the kind of dirt designed for growing plants) and fill up the hole so
that the water doesn’t come into the yard at all. Thus he built a rough version of a beaver dam
to plug up the hole. I didn’t get any
pictures as it is still a walk up the hill.
Three of Danny’s brothers came to
assist on Thursday. Jenna took several
pictures of them laboring (the eldest of the three worked harder than the other
two put together and so there are more pictures of him; I did not ask
permission to share any photos and that is why I post with backs as opposed to
faces)
