I told Elder Burns that he needed to write a letter about what he did during the week so here you go!
Okay so what have I done this last week..
Friday, I took the dump truck and loaded it with a lot of the scrap metal. Then I took it down to Hamilton where the scrap yard is. I then went over to the rock quarry and picked up a load of washed sand. They are going to be doing the sidewalks at some of the sites with rock and they use this sand to smooth it down before they lay the brick down.
Thursday I was getting ready to start doing the scrap metal and a new job came in for me to do. I had made a handrail for the stairs over in the plumber shop. And they now wanted a handrail on the other side. so I spent that day making that handrail painting it and then Friday morning I installed it.
Wednesday I took the telehandler, which is basically a forklift that the boom extends. I picked up the bin that collects all the saw dust from the carpentry shop. It has to be dumped occasionally. and we have a spot in the back where we dump the sawdust. However, this time the sawdust was needed down in the oxen barn, so I took the bin all the way down to where the oxen are. I had to open up the gate and go into their corral area with the telehandler. It was tight maneuvering to get the bin where I needed to dump it. The sawdust is dumped in the barn area where the feed trough is located.
Tuesday was spent in a meeting with a bunch of other missionaries and full-time employees. This meeting was a training for those of us that would be using the skid steer. First there was classroom time where we were taught all about it and all the safety procedures that need to go through the daily check out for anyone that will be using it. This is a safety mandate that we should do this training at least once a year even if we already know how to run the skid steer. I am about the only one besides Kendall (who was the teacher and is my direct supervisor in the auto mechanic shop) who has had experience on all the heavy equipment. And even though I have been allowed to drive everything here I still needed to go through this training. This training is good because you learn things that you didn't know, like where exactly are all the zerk fittings that need to be greased and that we are required to grease the machine every day that we take it out. It takes a little bit more time to check out than it did my school buses when I was driving school buses in Washington County.
Monday I finished up my honey do list for the auto shop. Jill had taken on one corner of the auto shop to clean it. It was a mess and she needed my help. I built a rack to hang on the wall to hold all the shovels and brooms and squeegees and other items of that type. I also made a rack to hold all the receiver hitches that we have. The FM workers come and get, from this corner, items as they need them. I also took an existing rack that was on wheels. It is about 3ft by 3ft in and about 7 ft tall. It is on wheels which makes it easier to maneuver. Who ever had built this originally had built it around a 55 gallon drum that had become a catch-all for everything. and you never really knew what was in the bottom of that drum, nor could you get to it. I ended up cutting one of the legs off the cage or rack so that I could get the 55-gallon drum out. I then welded the leg back in and then started making shelves all the way up and down down to hold the other items, some of which were in the drum and others that were there just laying around. Jill was able to get from our warehouse, bins to put things like clevis and pins for the receiver hitches. Come-alongs hang from the top shelf. Chains also hang from the top shelf and then I made it so that the bottom shelf would hold the excess chain. The chains and tie downs are used on trailers for hauling equipment to our different sites. This cage and on those shelves now makes the corner look a lot better. I think Jill will show some pictures of that area, what it looked like before and what it looks like now.
I have moved that 55 gallon drum over to the area where we keep the golf carts and all the ice melt. We have a truck bed-mounted spreader that spreads ice-melt out onto the parking lots and we have pallets of ice melt in there. The ice-melt comes in these great big bags that hold a ton of ice-melt. I had a bit left over the last time I filled up the spreader hopper. The drum was a perfect place to store this excessive-melt. So far, this month has been fairly warm. I doubt that we'll need the ice melt anymore this year. The locals here say we typically get more snow and ice, but today we went out for a walk with just a light jacket and it was really nice.
Well, that is what the past week looked like for me. It is also nice to have a Sunday like today where we can have worship services. Even though some of us are at the pageant building in person for a Sacrament service, while others like myself and my wife are at home watching via Zoom. Half of the senior missionaries attend in the practice section section of the pageant building while the other half are at home watching it on Zoom. We also have the cafeteria section of the pageant buildings that the Young Sister Missionaries are able to attend in person every week. Sister Burns and myself are in the Joseph Smith Zone and next week our Zone will be in the pageant building attending live while the Hyrum Smith zone will be at home watching over Zoom. I am thankful that I am here in Nauvoo helping to build the sites up to hopefully someday be able to have visitors once again. Things are actually starting to look up as far as having visitors this summer. Little strides ahead. It's almost a positive that the young performing missionaries will be here. The pageant is kind of still unknown whether it will happen this summer so keep it in your prayers.
Have faith that we will be able to open and we will be able to see you all here in Nauvoo.
Love you all,
Elder Burns
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