Sunday, September 23

Sunday meetings here are amazing. Choir practice is at 7:00 AM. We need to meet that early because we share the building with two other wards, and the site missionaries need to be at their sites by noon.    The sacrament meeting talks are so well prepared and delivered. After Sacrament meeting we leave the ward building and have Sunday School and RS/Priesthood in the Visitor's Center.  The lessons have lots of intelligent discussion, especially from the Young Sister Missionaries.   All of this will change for us eventually, or so we are told.  The FM missionaries go out-bound to strengthen other units.  So far we haven't been assigned so we go to the missionary ward.  I listen to the other FMs share their outbound experiences.  Because we don't work on the sites, we don't engage with other people very often.  Being in a regular ward would allow us to serve directly with people.  I mean, I love my weeds and flowers, but I'd like to teach a primary class.

On Sunday afternoon we decided to become better acquainted with Nauvoo by taking the wagon and carriage rides.  The wagon ride goes through town and the narrator tells the history of the area.  The carriage ride goes out in the country and the narrator tells stories about the people who lived in Nauvoo.  Immigrants came to Nauvoo by the thousands, as a result of the missionaries going out "to all the world".  Most of the early immigrants came from Great Britain.  Both rides are very different, so when you come schedule time to take both rides.

Wagon ride through the town. 

Sunday night the YSM gave us a concert. They all leave by the end of October.  Some are leaving their missions for good.  The rest are being sent all over the United States to serve with proselyting missionaries.  They will return when visitors come back in the Spring.  But things are so slow in the winter that not so many missionaries are needed. The YSM sung their testimonies of the restoration of the Church of Jesus Christ.  They sung so sweetly. Dee and I completely enjoyed the concert. 

Young Single Missionaries after their concert. They are a very happy crew.