As we were leaving the temple one day last week (for some reason early because the sun had
not yet set!) with Sister Hendricks we were blessed with a beautiful Sunset by the Mississippi!
We love Sis Hendricks, she's a sweetheart. She has the most wonderful Tennessee accent!
Her husband is one of the temple engineers so they are 18 month missionaries.
We will be sad when they go home in a couple months.
We did not venture far this week from Nauvoo on our Pday.
Driving around in our loaner Yaris is not too fun. (Car update: a new engine is on back order)
We went to see Anna Amanda. It starts with this cute puppet show.
Once again, the young performing missionaries do not disappoint. The show is really fun. They are amazing. They do so many different performances. Every. Day.
A real treat was the concert of hymns the Bass Band plays at the Carthage Jail.
The Spirit is so strong at Carthage.
It was so inspiriting to sit in front of the jail listening to songs about the Prophet Joseph Smith.
We saw Sister Lynn there. You might remember her from our carriage ride a few weeks back. Anyway, we visited with her and her companion for a little while.
She is from Gilbert, Arizona and was born in Flagstaff just like Sister Thompson!
I don't remember ever knowing anyone that was born in Flagstaff before!! Yay!!
These sister missionaries serve for 18 months. However, they come to Nauvoo in the summer and then in the winter they are assigned somewhere else in the states
(they don't know where they are going until they open up another call in the Seventies Hall
after the summer season has ended), and then come back to Nauvoo for another summer.
The last two weeks the BYU Folkdance team has been here performing. They did a fireside Sunday evening for the missionaries. So much talent and sweet testimonies! We saw a performance on Monday and will go back on Saturday evening to see their other performance.
What they can do in the heat and humidity is unbelievable.
However the corn is growing and loving the heat and humidity.
Sunday afternoon we saw 'Be Still'. It is a dramatization the young performing missionaries do of Saints reaction of the murders of the Prophet Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum. It was so inspiring. The missionaries bring the Spirit to everything they perform. Afterwards while chatting with some, we commented how we didn't know how they could have the stamina to do what they do. Everyone of them that you talk to about this mentions the angels they are supported by.
Last week while one of the missionaries was volunteering at the FamilySearch Center
a family came in to look for ancestors that may have lived here in Nauvoo.
One of the sons pulled up an ancestor and in the stories tab was this:
"My children, I have guarded the prophet Joseph Smith while he slept; I have guarded him while he walked the earth. I have slept at his side. I have felt the power of God in his life I have seen the mantel of the Holy Ghost hover over him. I have received the witness that I know that he is and he was a prophet of the living God, and I want you children, my family, to honor him and to honor each succeeding prophet following him because your security in the kingdom of God and your security in the church depends upon your full allegiance in the prophets in the earth. This testimony I leave with you, and I know that he was, indeed, a prophet of the living God." --Edwin Whiting (KWJW-7B9)
We also add our testimony of the Prophet Joseph Smith. He restored Christ's church. He translated the Book of Mormon and restored the keys of the priesthood and the ordinances of the temple. We are grateful for the opportunity to serve in, as President Hinckley called it, Joseph's Temple.
Everyday we are grateful for another day in Nauvoo. We can't believe the blessing it is to be here and to enjoy all that goes on. Pinch us. Each day we say, do we get to do this again today?!