November 8, 2020
I can't believe that we have already been here in Nauvoo for a month. Time has flown by! My daughter, Eleena, summed it up pretty good when she said, "on a mission you have the longest days and the shortest weeks." This is so true! I lose track of the days here. I have continued cleaning the auto mechanic shop and I am making progress - a step at a time or should I say, a small section at a time. I thought that I had taken a "before" picture but I guess that I didn't. I need to do that. I cleaned a machine the other day that was coated in grease and someone came in and said they were surprised to see the machine was actually red and not black. 
I've also been organizing the tool chests. Elder Burns continues working on the welding shop and enjoying it.
If you look really close, you can see a large hole in the tree.
This week in Nauvoo was beautiful! The temperatures were perfect and the trees are still vibrant as the leaves continue to fall. The FM grounds missionaries are keeping busy! I miss meeting in person for our Sacrament Meeting and weekly training meetings. I'm thankful for the technology that allows us to meet together through Zoom. I'm thankful for lunch time when the FM Missionaries all gather to eat together. It's a fun time to relax and visit with each other and get to know each other better.
As I've been cleaning, I've had a lot of time to think and also listen to books. My earbuds have become my friends! I don't know what I would do without them! :-) One of the books that I was listening to was talking about what our foundations are made of. Are they set in the sand or the rock? It made me start thinking about what my foundation is really set on and how firm is it? My rock foundation is Jesus Christ. He is my Savior, my Redeemer, my friend. He has carried my burdens when they were too heavy for me to carry alone. I know he suffered for my sins, my shortcomings and the pains that I would feel in this life.
Saturday, we were able to go to Adam-Ondi-Ahman and one of the comments that was made there was also about foundations. He said that many saints lived in Adam-Ondi-Ahman for many months before they were driven out. Most of the homes that were built were made without foundations so there are no remnants left of those homes. The homes that were built with rock foundations still have remnants of the foundations there. So, my question for all of us is - what is your foundation made of? How strong is it? Will it hold on through the storms of life?
This is a conference talk that I really like that is worth reading- it talks more about this more eloquently than I can and gives us ways to continually strengthen our foundations.
I love this mission and am grateful to be serving here in beautiful Nauvoo. I miss my kids and grandkids like crazy and long for their hugs! I'm glad that they are close together and support each other and that they know we love them! I love our bi-weekly zoom calls when we are all on together!
Life is great, life is hard, life is crazy but it's so worth it!
Love you! 
Sister Burns
This is called Preacher Rock. It is thought that Joseph Smith might have preached from here.
They call it the Keebler tree - where the Keebler elves live. 😉
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