2/21/2013 - Evelyn Hughes, a Yokota Air Base volunteer, transports leaves to help reclaim a path at the Monastery of St. Clare in Kiryushi, Japan, Feb. 16, 2013. Members from the Yokota Catholic Community devoted their Saturday morning to clearing away years of overgrowth surrounding the local monastery. (U.S. Air Force photo by 1st Lt. Christopher Love)

2/21/2013 - Andre Greenet, a Yokota Air Base volunteer, clears branches from a debris pile outside the Monastery of St. Clare near Yokota Air Base, Japan, Feb. 16, 2013. Greenet and other members of the Yokota Catholic Community helped recovered overgrown areas to support the local sisters. (U.S. Air Force photo by 1st Lt. Christopher Love)

2/21/2013 - A sister from the Order of St. Clare in Kiryushi, Japan, pauses from tending laundry to pose for a photo Feb. 16, 2013, outside her monastery near Yokota Air Base. A Franciscan Order, the “Poor Clares” were founded by St. Clare of Assisi in 1212 and have branches on three continents. (U.S. Air Force photo by 1st Lt. Christopher Love)

2/21/2013 - Steve Fazzini, a volunteer with the Yokota Catholic Community, trims branches to flatten a brush pile outside the Monastery of St. Clare, Kiryushi, Japan, Feb. 16, 2013. Fazzini led of team of roughly 20 volunteers from Yokota Air Base to recover large patches of ground around the nearby monastery. (U.S. Air Force photo by 1st Lt. Christopher Love)

2/21/2013 - Clothing blows on a line outside the Monastery of St. Clare, Kiryushi, Japan Feb. 16, 2013. The 13 “Poor Clare” sisters who occupy the unheated monastery near Yokota Air Base live simple lives comprised of poverty, work and prayer. (U.S. Air Force photo by 1st Lt. Christopher Love)

2/21/2013 - A hand-bell belonging to the sisters of the Monastery of St. Clare sits in a storage shed in Kiryushi, Japan, Feb. 16, 2013. The bell was used to summon Yokota Air Base volunteers to lunch after a morning of clearing brush for the “Poor Clares.” (U.S. Air Force photo by 1st Lt. Christopher Love)

2/21/2013 - Samuel Nelson, a Yokota Air Base volunteer, enjoys a snack after devoting his morning to cleaning the grounds around the Monastery of St. Clare in Kiryushi, Japan, Feb. 16, 2013. A group of roughly 20 members from the Yokota Catholic Community raked, trimmed, cut down trees and picked up sticks to reclaim overgrown property for the local sisters. (U.S. Air Force photo by 1st Lt. Christopher Love)

2/21/2013 - A group of tools fills a wheelbarrow outside the Monastery of St. Clare in Kiryushi, Japan, Feb. 16, 2013. Volunteers from Yokota Air Base spent the morning reclaiming patches of property like the one in background to support the local “Poor Clare” sisters. (U.S. Air Force photo by 1st Lt. Christopher Love)