DAVIS COUNTY, UTAH (ABC 4 News) -Numerous Church of Jesus Christ of Later-Day Saints’ congregations were not sitting in ward chapels Sunday. Instead, they were in their neighborhoods preparing for the coming storm.
Mark Heywood lives in Farmington. "I got a text message, and it said church was cancelled and that was that."
Sheri Seymore says she was sad when her forty-year-old pine trees came down in Thursday’s wind. But tears fell when she saw Sunday’s overwhelming response to her need. "I was sad by I didn't start crying until they all showed up at my door and just starting helping, and hauling, and cutting."
Canceling church services is highly unusual but Seymore says her neighbors are practicing what they preach. "It’s been amazing but this is what we do best. We come together, we work, we love and we just support each other."
That support was also evident in the line that formed at the Bountiful landfill, at times, five miles long. David Steed lives in the Kaysville Third Ward. His services were canceled as well, and he spent church time cleaning up, taking load after load to the dump. "We are just worried about the wind and more damage happening to the houses."
They are worried because they have already seen what wind can do. Sheri Seymore says she was trapped in her home. "Neighbors came, clipped their way through to my front door. It was covered, my garage and my front.” She says they were concerned for her wellbeing then, and obviously still are. "This is a fabulous Farmington neighborhood and just great, great, friends."
