They did not come neatly dressed in shirt and tie, ready to proclaim the Book of Mormon. Instead, wearing bright yellow T-shirts, 40 volunteers from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints came armed with chainsaws, work gloves and wheel barrows; and Saturday morning, they knocked on two Hodges Road doors to clear a large hardwood whose limbs covered much of the land between the properties.
“God bless you,” said a surprised Nimeh Ali as she peered out her front door around 11:30 a.m. to thank the four crews sawing and hauling away the fallen tree’s trunk and its bulky branches.