Nauvoo & Visitors

Joseph Smith and Hyrum riding up to the Nauvoo temple.
It was such a beautiful day.




This is our little house here in Nauvoo. It is very small but very comfortable.


The biggest surprise I ever had was walking into the Cultural Hall to perform "Rendezvous" before the show and Matthew Jacobs jumped up out of his seat because he had just seen me. We didn't know he was coming and he didn't know we were there. He and his darling wife Laura were there with her family of 21. It was such a joy to meet them all and to visit and have dinner with Matthew and Laura. He was our first Elder in Ukraine and took such good care of us and was always caring.


Elizabeth (Watt) Henderson and her husband Blair came for about a week to visit with his parents who are serving with us in Nauvoo. The Hendersons invited us over with the Leah and Ezra Robertsons (Stanley's sister) to have some cheesecake that Blair had made from scratch, it was delicious, he's a great cook. It was fun to see Elizabeth, it had been many years, since she was a little girl. since we had seen her.



A barge going down the Mississippi River

MTC

Well, here we are again. I have to learn all over again how to do a blog. You have to put the ones you want first last and last first. I forgot I put this one on


Here we are out by the visitors center's gardens. We are getting ready to go inside to practice for "Sunset By The Mississippi". Notice the tulips, now they have been pulled out and they have planted so many flowers in pots all over down by the sites, it's beautiful.


Elder and Sister Larsen are from our Ward and we came out together. Neither one of us knew the other one was coming until just a couple of weeks before. They're wonderful people that have a lot of faith and try to do everything they are asked.


This was at the MTC, I couldn't resist taking a picture of it
I'm not sure what it meant but it was good for a laugh.



This is our District. Elder Williams was asked to be the District Leader. The ones on the left are going to Russia and the rest are going with us. Hillman's are standing by E. Williams, we worked at the Temple together and they wanted to come so we told them who to get in touch with and here they are. He's a teamster and she wanted to be but that wasn't allowed. We had 18 COUPLES AT THE MTC ALL GOING TO NAUVOO. The biggest group they had ever had at the same time. I'll try to do better next time on the placement of pictures.

NAUVOO MISSION

We arrived at the MTC on the 11th of April, 2011 and was there for 8 days getting training to go to Nauvoo and in Preach My Gospel. They really did a good job.