JANUARY--LET IT SNOW!!...AND MINISTERING ANGELS

Becca and Caleb came to visit in January...just 10 days after New Years. They had just returned from a cruise...and will be going home to close on a new house. They have such a great life! We went for a Rhino ride up, up and up on the logging roads!  Jack thought he was on a Disney Ride! Jack thought our (boy scout) camp igloo was made just for him...with a door just his size! He dislocated his elbow when he fell off of Mark's bunkbed at Melissa's, before they drove up to Camp Zarahemla. Jack loved Grandpa's tractor! We were still in holiday eating mode, even though the New Year should have had us dieting! Carol could not get enough of Becca.  We needed a month of movies and rubbing each other's feet! On January 15 it started to snow.  Becca and Caleb had to leave on the 16th, so they could fly out of Spokane on the 17th...a day early, because of the BIG snowstorm!  

We had planned to spend my birthday in the Temple doing Linden's work, but instead we were literally buried in the snow.  It snowed all that week...a foot each day! I spent my birthday shoveling cabin porches, our driveway, in front of the bathrooms, and the sides of the lodge.  Chuck did not get in that night until 12:45 AM!  Chuck felt so discouraged plowing 12-16 hour days, and seemingly getting nowhere! I convinced him to call Jonathan for help...Jonathan said that he would come the next day!...Chuck was so humbled by all of this, he sat down and sobbed like a baby! 

Jonathan may look short, but he is a BIG worker.  It took three men (another brother from the ward came up too) to take off the backhoe and to put on the snow blower.  Jonathan stayed the whole afternoon...shoveling paths between the cabins and the parking areas.  He also helped with digging out the sides of the lodge. To add to our troubles, we were without power most of the day...Jonathan helped get the generator working for us...thank goodness the refrigerator, heat and a few lights in the house were restored! He was a MINISTERING ANGEL!  The snow blower made all the difference in the world. The funny part was that Elder Short who served before us told Chuck it did NOT work and that he never used it! The small tractor blade plowed until gigantic hills of snow lined all of the driving and parking areas...at that point, Chuck needed the blower to throw the snow up and over! Thank Heaven for Jonathan!