The Last

Hard to believe we have come to the last. 

It will be a week of lasts...
Our last dinner with President & Sister Irion,
Our last FHE with the missionaries,
Our last Wednesday PM shift as coordinators,
Our last day in the temple on Saturday,
The last drive down River Road....

We have so many wonderful memories of Beautiful Nauvoo--The City of Joseph
and of the Nauvoo Temple.   We hope to never forget how serving here made us feel.

This place made us happy each and every day,  we were happy and grateful...

to spend so much time together,

to be missionary companions,

for having our family visit us, kids and grandkids,

for having them in the temple with us,
 Nauvoo Temple

to serve in the temple on the corner of Well and Mulholland Street with it's beautiful details,

to be here in Nauvoo,

to work with such wonderful people; district workers and missionaries,

for pageants,

to live by the Mississippi River,

to experience 4 seasons,

to hear the whistle train at night, 

for tulips, 

for the Trail of Hope on Parley Street,

for birds singing,

for corn fields,

for barns and silos,

for oxen,

for the mail room,

our apartment in the flats,

for our back door,

for historic sites, 

 Scovil Bakery

 Carthage Jail

Mansion House

Wilford Woodruff's home with Sisters Hughes and Winegar,

Brigham Young's home,

 The Cultural Hall

Heber C Kimball home

beautiful gardens, 

 the Red Brick Store, 

for Sunset by the Mississippi, 

young performing missionaries,

for the sounds of wagons passing by our apartment,

for completed family file cards,

for prairie fire demonstrations (although,

 this year it was more of a smolder it had rained so much),

It has been a wonderful year,
we have met great people,
done wonderful things,
and made tons of memories.
We have to leave Nauvoo,
but Nauvoo will never leave us.