It has come time,(and past) to write again on this blog. I am sorry for those of you who have come to look and found the nothingness that was here. We continue to be busy going to new sites everyday. They are trying to get us newbees in to all the sites at least once before the rush begins.
The anticipation is thick enough to cut with a knife. The YPM's (Young Performing Missionaries) have arrived and can be heard about any time of day practicing the music for the performances. The pageants begin July 8th. There are 2 this year: The "British Pageant" and the Nauvoo Pageant. There will also be about 10 vignettes going on through the week besides Rendezvous and Sunset by the Mississippi. Some of the vignettes are put on by the core cast from the pageants and some by the YPM's.
The brass band has also arrived and is now practicing with us for Sunset. Except for not being able to hear ourselves think it is quite exciting to have them here. Their director is a retired college director from BYUI (Ricks).
This week I have been at the
Lucy Mack House (the prophet's mother) where I learned about her steadfast support for Joseph and her unfailing testimony of the truth of the restoration inspite of losing so many of her sons for the cause.
Cultural Hall which had 16 different uses in the time the Saints were here, including theater, Masonic Hall, school, courtroom, dance pavilion, banquet hall, for funerals, police department, church, and last but not least a place to build wagon boxes for the exodus. After the saints left the hall, in 1851, was sold at sheriff's auction for $4.38 It now, having been restored, has a quilt display from pioneer times on the second floor, and is where we perform Rendezvous, on the first floor. There are 3 casts which rotate through the days of the week putting on the play every night but Sunday. If there are enough tickets given out the cast of the evening puts the show on twice. In the summer the YPMs put on a cute show earlier in the day, "Just Plain Anna Amanda".
Today I went to the site called the Pendelton Log School House, where we tell of the importance of education and living healthy.
Tuesday was P-Day. We went to Keokuk for groceries and "stuff".
I always promise to write sooner than later but someday soon will have to suffice. Love to all.
Sister Boyle.
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