A Delicious Week of Dining Out!

Annie Richardson & one of her
30 children She wrote her story
in the book "The Gathering"

This week has been full of fun!
We made a salad for our District  Dinner on Wednesday and kept adding to it as we went to a Teamsters dinner on Friday with the 18 teamsters & spouses,  a birthday Dinner with Julanders, Stokes and our new friends Quirls on Saturday (Kidby's are assigned to    Carthage and were too tired to come) but they came to lunch at our house after church today where we ate the same salad, and then added to it again for our dinner tonight with the Mechams & Hayhursts. (Sis Mecham is Bob Thurgood's cousin).  We're learning to economize our efforts here.  ha!ha!   (At this rate we'll come home husky)

This week Elder "T" has taken people on
Oxen rides one day, Carriage rides another
day, and Wagon Rides for 2 days.  The 5th day he spent helping build a wagon which will
be used as a float for different parades in Nauvoo including the whole town of Nauvoo on
"Bootiful Nauvoo Days" (a gala Halloween Celebration).  On each of these rides there are 2 teamsters and we take turns between  being the Narrator and driving the team.  Sister "T" likes to step to the door where she's serving to wave and blow kisses to Elder "T" as he drives by.

This week Sister "T" has given tours at the
Print Shop, Visitors Center, The Seventy's Hall,
The Wilford Woodruff Home, The John Taylor
Home and today with Elder "T" at the Lyon Drug

Spring in Nauvoo!

Store.  At the Seventy's Hall a couple came who had just returned from the World Wide Conference of the Community of Christ Church.  He said they were instructed at the Conference to "never again refer to (us) as 'Mormons' or 'LDS' because that's not what they are."  He said they instructed them
to call us "the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints"  His wife is a member of our church.  He said "We've lasted for 42 years!" and they looked very much in love.  They were headed on a vacation along the pioneer trail west visiting sites to Salt Lake City.  We feel a friendship between the two religions  as we share tours at this sacred Historic Site.


It's been very enlightening to see how many members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter day Saints visit here.  This whole week we had a group of 20 touring (2 adult couples with 16 girls ages 9-16) they had just moved to Oklahoma from the Colorado City area about 8 months ago.  We have come to realize that this is their history too.  Those little girls were absolutely enamored with the horses,  Elder "T" himself took them on one oxen ride, one carriage ride and 3 wagon rides.  Each morning they were at the barn to watch the horses be fed and groomed and harnessed.  They said they were a school group & next week they will bring the boys.

How we love this work!  The Restored Gospel is True.
Come see us!