Farewell As we leave Nauvoo, here are some pictures of the evening farewells to our days here. Sunsets like these were the norm most evenings. "This is the loveliest place and the best people under the heavens." --Joseph Smith
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More This and That * It's fun to watch familiar faces appear at the temple. --Elder Rasband showed up one day. No fanfare, just a quiet meeting with the temple president before he disappeared to whatever he came to do. Just low key, no fuss. There have probably been others like him, but if you're not in the right place at the moment they show up, you miss it. --Same with Sister Yee, although she did chat with us in the office and gave us all hugs after she picked up cards for the ordinances she's done. She's delightful, so warm and friendly. --There have also been a few people we recognized from their podcasts, but if we'd greeted them with, "I know you," they would have been embarrassed since most of them don't know who we are, so we just smiled and nodded at them. * We see lots of insects in our apartment but haven't had any problems with mosquitoes or chiggers--yay! We've gotten quite tired of all the litt...
Fall in Nauvoo The lush green we've been blessed with has faded and the grass looks similar to what we have in Utah most of the time. The leaves haven't changed yet, but everything has lost its luster. Most of the corn fields have been harvested (with it a whole new level of allergies we hadn't experienced before!), and most of the soybean fields have been razed as well. The corn around here is feed corn, so they wait to harvest it until it is dry enough it doesn't rot in silage. We had some visitors last week. A couple in our ward at home, Holly and Chris Taylor, came through on a bus tour. We got to do a session with them one morning in the temple because it was a day we serve in the afternoon. Then Arline's brother Kelly and wife Deanna came for a few days and we got to do a session with them too. We enjoyed their visit. The only pictures we took with them didn't turn out because it was too dark. Songs of the Heart with half of the Young Performing Missiona...
OLD NAUVOO and CARTHAGE There are two groups of YPM--Young Performing Missionaries--every summer, each coming for about 3 months. Some have returned from full-time missions, others will soon go out. The first group starts in early April and leaves around pageant time, and the second group picks up and finishes out the summer. The second group will be leaving after Conference weekend. At first we didn't realize how much they did. They put on at least 4-5 shows most days, ending with "Sunset by the Mississippi" in the evening, an energetic song-and-dance show that includes tap dancing as well as involving little kids from the audience for part of it. We've seen it four times and have enjoyed it every time. Some of their shows only include part of the cast, some all of them. We see the missionaries often in the temple. It's amazing how active they are. Brad came to visit with three of his daughters. It was a whirlwind 1 1/2 days, but we're glad they made the ef...