This is going to be a jiffy post of our week in Nauvoo.
We have been busy in the temple and out of the temple. Here is just a quick look.
We were able to trade in our Yaris rental car for something a little bigger.
Still no word on when our car will be repaired.
But we can now drive around and not feel every rock in the road!
Still no word on when our car will be repaired.
But we can now drive around and not feel every rock in the road!
We saw a glass blowing demonstration at Nauvoo Glassworks.
The corn is growing taller.
The Young Performing Missionaries are still performing, and continue to do an amazing job!
Love it when they wear their hoop skirts ;)!
An Elder from Germany said after tonight he is not sure how we won the war!
Some had real talent, some were just plain silly.
Elders Rand and Widdison tried to be 'Teapots', turns out they are just sugar bowls!
The sing-a-long was fun.
Our weekly missionary meetings have been so inspiring.
People have been sharing stories from their family histories.
This is John Ellison Maxfield and his wife Sarah Elizabeth Baker
Sister Thompson's gggrandmother and grandfather
Sarah Elizabeth Baker Maxfield joined the LDS church with her husband and children in Bedeque, Prince Edward Island, Canada. The family sold or gave away all their belongings and left to join the saints in Utah. On September 1, 1851 in what is now Ham’s Fork, Wyoming, Elizabeth gave birth to her last son in the back of a wagon. Both mother and baby were so weak and exhausted that there was little hope that they would survive. The wagon master held the company up for a couple of days to allow her husband, John Ellison, to go into a nearby tent settlement and find someone who would care for his wife and baby, or bury them if they did not survive. John and the children could not wait for her recovery or death and leave later, because of the great danger of traveling alone through hostile Indian country without the protection of the entire company. So they made the unthinkable decision to leave their wife and mother behind. Miraculously, within a week, Elizabeth and the baby both recovered. They were able to catch a quicker-moving wagon train, and when John Ellison and the remaining children arrived in the Salt Lake Valley, Sarah Elizabeth and her new baby, Henry Adheimer, both healthy and vigorous, were in the crowd welcoming them to Zion.
"The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead. ...For it is necessary that the sealing power should be in our hands to
seal our children and our dead for the fulness of the dispensation of times--
a dispensation to meet the promises made by
Jesus Christ before the foundation of the world for the salvation of man.
...Hence, God said, 'I will send you Elijah the prophet" --Joseph Smith
Elder Russell M. Nelson has taught that the Spirit of Elijah is
"a manifestation of the Holy Ghost bearing witness of the
divine nature of the family". This distinctive influence of the
Holy Ghost draws people to identify, document, and cherish their
ancestors and family members--both past and present.
--David A Bednar Oct 2011 General Conference
In the gospel of Jesus Christ you have help from both sides of the veil, and you must never forget that. When disappointment and discouragement strike--and they will--you remember and never forget that if our eyes could be opened we would see horses and chariots of fire as far as the eye can see riding at reckless speed to come to our protection. They will always be there, these armies of heaven, in defense of Abraham's seed.
--Jeffrey R Holland March 18, 1980, For Times of Trouble