In our mission at last

We arrived in Nauvoo on April 21. Our travels were very good, driving to Rawlins, Wyoming the first night after leaving the MTC at 4:00. The next day we traveled to Omaha, Nebraska where we visited Wi#nter Quarters visitor center. It's a great little visitor center and a very nice missionary couple gave us a tour. The next morning we went to Kanesville (Council Bluffs).the church has avisitor center there also and a building there that replicates the one that was used when the first presidency was reorganized for the first time after the martyrdom. The same couple were there we had met the day before in Winter Quarters and gave us a tour of that  site. We drove on Thursday all the way to Keokuk which is just across the river from Nauvoo where we stayed that night. We planned to go to the temple in Nauvoo Friday morning since our appointment with the mission wasn't until 11:30, but we found our the temple was closed for cleaning and the sites didn't open until 10:00 so we just kind of wandered around for a couple of hours.

We found the house we had been assigned to. 

This is the William Mendenhall home that we will be living in for the coming months. 

It has a living room/kitchen on the main floor. The bedroom and bathroom are upstairs and the washer and dryer are in the basement. Small, but sufficient for our needs.

The view from our backdoor.