Nearly 700 volunteers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints worked last weekend in Florida to help clear the wreckage left behind by Hurricane Isaias — the Category 2 hurricane that hammered into the northwest coast of Florida on Oct. 9.
The hurricane — which made landfall near Destin, Florida — tore through roofs and walls, leaving behind a trail of destruction and nearly 900,000 households without power. The Associated Press reports that at least four deaths were linked to the hurricane.
To see nearly 700 volunteer workers “anxiously engaged” and watch the effectiveness of the church’s emergency response was “a manifestation of how the light of Jesus Christ guides us in caring for those in need,” said Elder Kurt F. Scherer, a church Area Seventy serving in the United States Southeast Area…