This week has been a lot of fun although very busy. Darren is taking people on rides on the wagon or carriage or oxen wagon every day now. I have been in the sites this past week. We started our stage productions of sunset by the Mississippi on Tues. It went fairly well although we forgot the actions on our "Nauvoo Sunshine" song. The director spruced us up though and we did a lot better on Saturday. In fact we got a standing ovation. It helped to have a lot of youth in the crowd.
We had my brother Ryan and his family here in Nauvoo on Wed, Thur and Fri. It was great to see them. They could use our house as a crash pad when they needed to and we fed them supper Thurs night. It was one of the spiritual highlights of the week when I took them on tour of the Wilford Woodruff home and got to bear my testimony of Lord's remembrance of the sacrifice of His saints. We were all touched by the spirit.
Saturday, we both got to go with Nauvoo on the Road. That's where we go out to festivals or gatherings in the surrounding areas and set up a booth to advertise Nauvoo and invite people to come. We went to Pittsfield, Ill. about 2 hours away where they were having a civil war re-enactment. We wear our site clothes and take a rope making machine and pioneer games and I took my spinning wheel. It was a lot of fun and very interesting. Whereas in Nauvoo most people who come are members, out there about nobody are members. I am surprised about how few people even know about Nauvoo.
However, just as we were packing up and I was standing by while they were loading the heavy stuff and man came up to me and said he didn't know there were any Mormons in his county. Then he told me he was a member and that he was a member because of Nauvoo. He had gone there several years ago and went to the visitor's center and heard about all that had happened to the early saints. He said the man who was speaking had probably given that talk 200 times but that it touched him and now he was a member. It was so special for me to hear him. Most of the time we have no idea how things turn out with those who visit here.
I also had a very good conversation with the lady who had the booth next to ours. She was selling pottery and soap she had made. But she came over to talk to me about spinning. She had done some in the past and even owned a sheep. She admired the shawl I had made and talked about different kinds of sheep and so on. I invited her to come to Nauvoo, told her about what was there and gave her some pamphlets about it. She seems interested so I hope she will come and that I can see her there when she does.
Our schedule is very busy here. For instance, Friday morning at 7:00, we had a farewell breakfast for the couples that were going home that involved the whole mission. Our cast set up on Thurs. night. I scrambled 3 dozen eggs for it the next morning. Then my shift started at 8:45. I got off at 3 and fixed supper for the Young Sister Missionaries (one companionship). Then we had to be to our Sunset performance by 6;15. We usually don't have and early breakfast like that but Darren has to be to the barns by 7:30.
We love it here serving the Lord.
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| BIG horses at the barn |
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| Sunset by the Mississippi on the out door stage |
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| Gideon Geisler, my nephew, in the Children's Parade at Sunset |
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| Nauvoo on the Road |
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| Elder Hatch showing sick pulling |
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| Lincoln was there |
