Sunday, July 20, 2014
Sunday July 20 -The Pageants have been going since the 8th. The weather has been beautiful. It did rain one night on the Nauvoo Pageant. They are well done and wonderful to watch. The British pageant is such a treat with all the British and Scottish accents, the folk dancing and reminders of our heritage.
So here is a typical week in Nauvoo for a single sister site missionary.
Sun. 8 am
Sacrament meeting at the chapel. Super talks by senior missionaries and Young Performing Missionaries. Dismiss. Hurry to Visitors Center for Sunday School and Relief Society. Lessons taught by missionaries.
Come home from church. Eat dinner and get dressed in site clothes i.e. pioneer dress, slip and apron and name tag, always the name tag. Today is a white apron. Some times it is a colored apron. I get to serve at the Lucy Mack Smith house 12:15 pm to 5. You remember Luck Mack Smith is Joseph Smiths mother. She lost all but one of her eight son's before she died.
My companion Sis. Layne on the other hand has the day off. This is the first Sun. we haven't served together.
Sister Olsen (S.Sis. Miss. age 82) wants to have folks over for supper. Sister Layne will take pot luck at 5 pm. I will come in pioneer dress as soon as I get off.
7 pm Sociable (Fireside) put on by BYU Synthesis Band and Contemporary dancers.
Awesome. Very spiritual.
Come home. Check the e-mail. Go to bed.
Mon. 7:30 am Get up. Catch some breakfast. Have a prayer with companion. We don't always say morning prayers together. Depends on who's going where when.
Today I have late shift 11:45 am to 6 pm. so I go out to work in the yard. Mow the edges the big mowers didn't get the day before and add some dirt to the sand the flowers have been trying to grow in. Notice the zucchini I planted is growing a baby, (squash that is). As I finally get this ready to post we have harvested two good sized zuccinnis and the cucumbers are about 2 inches long.
Also growing in our 1 1/2 ft. by 10 ft. garden along the garage are, carrots, cucumbers, green onions, cosmos, & zinnias (2).
Come in, shower get ready, go to serve at Family Living Center. There I will talk about making candles and the light of Christ, making fabric and yarn and having patience while making a fine finished project, and making bread in a brick oven, which bread is like the words of Christ which words are also the bread of life. I also get to sew on rug rags which will be used on the looms to make rugs for the floors in the restored houses.
Tonight at 6:15 pm we need to be over to the outdoor stage just East of the Visitor's Center where we will perform in the variety show known as "Sunset by the Mississippi". We put this show on with the young performing missionaries while they are here. When they leave we will cease to put on Sunset.
Tues. is preparation day. This month we don't have a performance in the evening so we can go farther for a road trip. So far we have gone to Springfield to the Lincoln Museum, to the Mark Twain home town of Hannibal, Mo., to Kalona, an Amish/Mendonite town which is all about quilts, and this week we are going to the Duncan Indian Mounds, East of here.
Wed. is 8 am training meeting. Part of the meeting is a wonderful talk about unity and harmony and how it is the way things should be in nature, in our lives, in our bodies, in our mission.
After training I am to serve at Lucy Mack Smith C shift (8:45 to 12 ) and then come back at 3 pm and work until 6pm. Sister Layne is at the Brigham Young House shift A, which is 8:45 to 3 pm. We generally take some lunch with us.
Be at the Cultural Hall by 6:30 In performance dress, to warm up and be ready for Rendezvous performance. We will do two shows back to back: one at 7:00 pm and another again at 8:15 pm. Some nights I have a speaking part and some I do not.
Thurs. Go to the Post Office on the B shift, 11:45 am to 6:00 pm. Here we tell about how the mail worked in the 1840's here in Nauvoo. Letters with no envelopes, no return addresses, no stamps, and which have been cross written.
Perform Sunset again at 6:15.
Fri. Go to Heber C Kimball's house on the A shift (8:45am to 3:00pm). Here we tell about he and his great grandson, Dr. Leroy Kimball who was actually the one who got the whole "Restore Nauvoo" ball rolling.
Heber C. was a great missionary and could likely have converted your English relatives.
Sat. Spend the day at the Nauvoo Visitors Center, greeting guests. The shift today is from 7:15am to 1:00pm We will spend the time telling what's available to do in Nauvoo, showing them around the Visitors Center, and helping them get plans made for what to see while they are in Nauvoo. There are a couple movies to see, and the play, The Promise is put on by the YPM's at the VC, but they must make a plan of when they want to see the other plays and go on the Carriage and Wagon Rides. Those require tickets which must be reserved at the tickets and tours desk.
Rendezvous again tonight.
And then it is Sunday again. Whew the week has flown by
Sun. 8 am
Sacrament meeting at the chapel. Super talks by senior missionaries and Young Performing Missionaries. Dismiss. Hurry to Visitors Center for Sunday School and Relief Society. Lessons taught by missionaries.
Come home from church. Eat dinner and get dressed in site clothes i.e. pioneer dress, slip and apron and name tag, always the name tag. Today is a white apron. Some times it is a colored apron. I get to serve at the Lucy Mack Smith house 12:15 pm to 5. You remember Luck Mack Smith is Joseph Smiths mother. She lost all but one of her eight son's before she died.
My companion Sis. Layne on the other hand has the day off. This is the first Sun. we haven't served together.
Sister Olsen (S.Sis. Miss. age 82) wants to have folks over for supper. Sister Layne will take pot luck at 5 pm. I will come in pioneer dress as soon as I get off.
7 pm Sociable (Fireside) put on by BYU Synthesis Band and Contemporary dancers.
Awesome. Very spiritual.
Come home. Check the e-mail. Go to bed.
Mon. 7:30 am Get up. Catch some breakfast. Have a prayer with companion. We don't always say morning prayers together. Depends on who's going where when.
Today I have late shift 11:45 am to 6 pm. so I go out to work in the yard. Mow the edges the big mowers didn't get the day before and add some dirt to the sand the flowers have been trying to grow in. Notice the zucchini I planted is growing a baby, (squash that is). As I finally get this ready to post we have harvested two good sized zuccinnis and the cucumbers are about 2 inches long.
Also growing in our 1 1/2 ft. by 10 ft. garden along the garage are, carrots, cucumbers, green onions, cosmos, & zinnias (2).
Come in, shower get ready, go to serve at Family Living Center. There I will talk about making candles and the light of Christ, making fabric and yarn and having patience while making a fine finished project, and making bread in a brick oven, which bread is like the words of Christ which words are also the bread of life. I also get to sew on rug rags which will be used on the looms to make rugs for the floors in the restored houses.
Tonight at 6:15 pm we need to be over to the outdoor stage just East of the Visitor's Center where we will perform in the variety show known as "Sunset by the Mississippi". We put this show on with the young performing missionaries while they are here. When they leave we will cease to put on Sunset.
Wed. is 8 am training meeting. Part of the meeting is a wonderful talk about unity and harmony and how it is the way things should be in nature, in our lives, in our bodies, in our mission.
After training I am to serve at Lucy Mack Smith C shift (8:45 to 12 ) and then come back at 3 pm and work until 6pm. Sister Layne is at the Brigham Young House shift A, which is 8:45 to 3 pm. We generally take some lunch with us.
Be at the Cultural Hall by 6:30 In performance dress, to warm up and be ready for Rendezvous performance. We will do two shows back to back: one at 7:00 pm and another again at 8:15 pm. Some nights I have a speaking part and some I do not.
Thurs. Go to the Post Office on the B shift, 11:45 am to 6:00 pm. Here we tell about how the mail worked in the 1840's here in Nauvoo. Letters with no envelopes, no return addresses, no stamps, and which have been cross written.
Perform Sunset again at 6:15.
Fri. Go to Heber C Kimball's house on the A shift (8:45am to 3:00pm). Here we tell about he and his great grandson, Dr. Leroy Kimball who was actually the one who got the whole "Restore Nauvoo" ball rolling.
Heber C. was a great missionary and could likely have converted your English relatives.
Sat. Spend the day at the Nauvoo Visitors Center, greeting guests. The shift today is from 7:15am to 1:00pm We will spend the time telling what's available to do in Nauvoo, showing them around the Visitors Center, and helping them get plans made for what to see while they are in Nauvoo. There are a couple movies to see, and the play, The Promise is put on by the YPM's at the VC, but they must make a plan of when they want to see the other plays and go on the Carriage and Wagon Rides. Those require tickets which must be reserved at the tickets and tours desk.
Rendezvous again tonight.
And then it is Sunday again. Whew the week has flown by
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