July 18, 2021
I am so excited! More sites are opening tomorrow and Lyon Drug is one of them! That means that I'll have people walking through the gardens and I am excited for that to happen! It is so beautiful and there are so many different plants in it. I really wish that I knew the names of all of them. Our supervisor, Richard, is on a long, well-deserved vacation, but I might just have to text him pictures of the plants so I can learn the names of them. Some are really interesting looking. I'll have to take pics and post them next week. They are also opening the John Taylor home. Baby steps but we are getting there and it is exciting to see Nauvoo come alive again after the Covid shut down.
So, in addition to working on my sites, we also helped Doug on one of his huge projects. He has been working on a trail that goes from the Vacation Villas (these are nightly rentals that a lot of the pageant core cast and participants stay in) to the Pageant Headquarters Building. He has put in culverts, lined ditches with rocks, trimmed trees, leveled it out and will be putting gravel down soon. Sister Koop and Sister Coffman helped me with tree removal one day. It took us all day to get them removed. I was grateful for their help! We make a great team and I love working with them. It was also a great change from the daily weeding we do. I also washed lots and lots of pots and made a fun pyramid with them!
We welcomed three new couples to the mission this week. Two of them are FM missionaries and the Sisters will be working in gardens with us. Welcome Sister Cole and Sister Wood.
A fun thing happened this week - we were getting ready to go to the store when I received a text from our Ivins neighbors, the Borrowman's, asking if we were in Nauvoo. I replied, "Yes, are you?" and they were so we put the shopping on hold and spent the evening with them! We watched "Sunset by the Mississippi" and then had Annies. It was a wonderful evening spent with even more wonderful friends and was a lot more fun than shopping! I love seeing friends and family here!
Saturday we had a Senior Sisters breakfast and that night the Ballard's and us went to dinner. They leave in two weeks and I'll miss them - a lot! During the breakfast we were asked to share what our favorite place in Nauvoo is. How do I pick one? I love Nauvoo, all of it! ♥️ I love working at Lyon Drug. I can look up and see the temple from there, I see the teamsters drive by every morning on their way to give tours and see the beautiful four-legged missionaries, I hear the Nauvoo Brass Band as they perform up and down Main Street plus I'm in the beauty of God's creations. What's not to love?
Each Sunday, Elder Burns and I serve at the Visitor's Center as incident commanders. Basically, we greet guests and assist where needed. Sometimes it's pretty quiet but at other times, it's pretty busy. Today we met (again - we first met them at Aldi in Keokuk) a couple, E/S McAllister, that served with Austin on his mission in England.
As I've said before, we love serving here! We love our Savior and are so grateful for the blessing we have of serving Him daily. We are busy, we are tired and we wouldn't change it!
Our outgoing and incoming Presidency.
E/S Ballard & E/S Massey are heading home soon.
Annie's is thee local frozen custard place
and people write on napkins and place them
under the plastic tablecloths. When Sydney and Austin
were here, they made one. When the
Borrowman's came, Ava made one and placed
it next to Sydney & Austin's. It was too cute!
Lots and lots of pots!
With the McAllister's.
At "Sunset" with the Borrowman family.
Clearing the trail from the Villas to
Pageant Headquarters. That's Elder Burns
on the tractor.
I love my work Sisters! Sister Koop, me and Sister Coffman.
The gourd arbor
Below are pictures from "Sunset by the Mississippi"
The Grandma is my 4th cousin, Sister Bowman, through
my Hatch line. We made the connection here and it's a
forever connection! I love my sweet cousin!
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