Coleus

6:00 AM when I go to work

Our coleus cuttings are ready to be potted, so most of this week Sister Bailey and I potted coleus, while Sister Grigsby took the young sisters assigned to us out to work in the park.  Here is our week's work.

Red Sky in the morning,  FM missionaries take warning

 It did rain, after we got back from watering, the rest of the morning.  So we worked in the greenhouse.  We worked on this project off and on all week.

Coleus cuttings we made this summer...

Are big enough to go into pots. 

Elder Barrow was making duct work in the costume room of the pageant department.  He had to go up in a very wobbly lift. 

Dee and Jason relax after a hard week's work up in the ceiling. 

Still mayfly season

 Mayflies on cobwebs.

On Saturday we had some fun. 

Saturday we took a bike ride and found this little gem. 

Built in 1846.  It's for sale. 

Saturday night we had a mission dinner to say good-by to 8 young sisters and several senior couples.  We have nine violinists in the mission. All classically trained, but they weren't playing classical music.  Orange Blossom Special!

If you look close you can see the sisters with paper hats marching around the room with their percussion instruments. 

It is the season in Nauvoo to start saying good-by to half the mission.  Between now and November the young sisters will either go home or go out-bound to a proselyting mission. Many of the seniors will finish their missions.  This is the hardest part of the mission, saying good-by, even though we know they are going on to other good things.   As we get nearer to our year mark, more and more missionaries who have been our friends all of our mission are leaving.  That is just part of serving a mission in Nauvoo. 

Mission Training: This week was zone meeting, but we all met together long enough to let the Warners and the Corders say good-by.  Then the Pinnets led us in a discussion about adapting our lessons, or tours to our audience.