The Flood

On a Friday morning almost a week ago, I merrily went to the beach for my morning walk, while at the same time, Raylene went next door to the church to teach early morning Seminary. When she arrived, she saw that sometime in the night, the water fountain in the hallway had sprung a leak and the tile floors were flooded in the front half of the church. After a short Seminary lesson she sent the one student who showed up off to school and watched for my return. As I climbed up the hill to our apartment I saw her standing at the fence and all she said was "I need your help". The Primary room, the Branch President's room, the two restrooms were flooded, two classrooms were flooded and the chapel was half flooded. Together we spent about four and a half hard hours sweeping and mopping the water out of the building. It was exhausting work and by the end we were both spent. One of our good members who is a plumber, came and repaired the leak. We are back to normal now and hope this will not happen again.