The Scoop from Nauvoo

It is Sunday again What a great day it has been!

Our Sacrament meeting begins at 8am. If you are not there by 20 min. to the hour you are in the rec
hall on the hard chairs. As summer goes on we will have more visitors and will be even more crowded. 
Tonight the Young Sister Missionaries put on a "Sociable".  The theme was the atonement. They sang and testified and sang and sang while they played, and danced to a gospel song (ballet), testified. Then they had a violin accompaniment with a vocal solo.  It was all amazing.  The young people here are all so talented.

The Young Performing Missionaries have been here three weeks. They practice from early morning to late in the afternoon, eat and then go perform, "Sunset". There is a brass band and then singers and dancers. Most of the kids could sing or dance or both when they got here. Now they are doing everything.

Saturday was the opening for the shows but not the p YPM's Put on "The Promise", ( a history of life  in Nauvoo, funny and sad), Anna Amanda, (a vignette about a pioneer girl, with puppets too), and then they have a big part in "Sunset" with us senior missionaries. They work very hard.

The band plays in "Sunset", they have their own horse drawn carriage to take them around town playing and they get out and play in Old Nauvoo walking around stopping here and there. It almost gives the place a Disney Land feel.  Of course a lot of what they play is songs like "There is Sunshine in My Soul Today" or  "We Are As the Armies of Helaman" or "Oh How Lovely Was the Morning".

We went down and took some more beautiful pictures by the Sarah Granger Kimball house today. Peonies everywhere. Also took some of the Women's Garden.  I will try to post them in the next day or so.

Goodnight everyone.