opening this Saturday and we've
been practicing our dancing and singing! Yup! It's true... Kent will be dancing and singing on stage with Trudy and missionaries! He'll also perform rope tricks! Our Young Performing Missionaries arrived and have really given us all a shot of energy! We get to perform with them the first two performances (Saturday and Monday). Come see us if you want a good laugh!
Grandma did the best!
The Sisters areneeded in case an Elder is unable to work. We have just enough teamsters to fill our needs.
Last week Sister Thurgood served at the Family Living Center and was taught to make Nauvoo Bread in a brick Beehive Oven and because it was her first experience she got to take home one of the loaves for Elder Thurgood to eat. A fire was made inside the oven & burned for 2 hours, then the coals were removed and freshly made bread put inside on an inverted cookie sheet. It was beautiful! All visitors to the FLC get to taste the bread.
The next night we were honored to share it with Elder & Sister Hinton (Randy's parents) who had just arrived to serve their Nauvoo Temple Mission. We sure enjoyed having them over for dinner! They brought us a bottle of their homemade peaches & applesauce.
When our next batch of missionaries arrive we will have 270 missionaries here... we will be 25% of the residents of Nauvoo!
It was a thrill for us to be in the Women's Garden with all the tulips! Sis Thurgood helped build it. Years ago when the idea for this garden was formulated in honor of Relief Society, the Sisters were invited to donate to build it. They suggested 25 cents, which was the amount it cost to join the first Relief Society. We sat together in this beautiful garden and remembered the first Relief Society which came from a couple of friends wanting to help with the Nauvoo Temple. Margaret and Sarah decided to invite a few neighbors over to form a sewing club to make shirts for the men working on the temple. They asked Eliza to write a constitution which she presented to Brother Joseph who was shown that the women of Christ's ancient church were organized and that the women of the Church in our day also needed to be organized as part of the Restoration of all things. He did that for them (and us) in the top of the Red Brick Store here in Nauvoo. Relief Society members were suffragists for women's rights and invited to speak all over the world to win the right of the vote for women. Because of their efforts Utah and Wyoming became the first states to allow women to vote. During the Great Depression "Singing Mothers" groups in white blouses and black skirts sang all over the world and on KSL radio to give hope and cheer. In the late 1800's R.S. sent women to medical schools in the East. Deseret Hospital was run by the first all-female board of directors in the USA. RS women in Primary became concerned about the care of children and started Primary Children's Hospital. Sisters started the "Wheat Project" and it was used to help feed the survivors of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake as well as feed victims of WW I and WW II. The sisters raised money, bought and sold on the stock market and started church programs like the medical, social and welfare services. They had one of the first women's magazines in the world published for 50 years. Women pioneered the genealogy movement to gather family names, traveling back East for that purpose, writing articles for newspapers and magazines and lessons and organizing the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers. At the Worlds Fair in San Francisco in 1915, hundreds of RS Sisters saved money to attend just to visit the International Congress of Genealogy exhibit and see Sis. Wells (the RS Pres) receive a bronze medal for efforts made by the RS in Genealogy work. Women were sent to New York, Chicago and Denver for training in social work and a social services lesson was given every month in RS. The women started a 50-year Deseret Silk Association Industry in Utah. The women raised the silk worms, fed them mulberry leaves, spun the silk and weaved the cloth. I am so honored to belong to the Worlds largest and longest standing Women's Organization!!!
Tug boats are starting to push barges up and down the Mississippi outside our window. This is 870 semi-truck loads of grain. 3 barges wide and 5 barges long pushed by a 6,000 hp tugboat! FUN!
Last week Sister Thurgood served at the Family Living Center and was taught to make Nauvoo Bread in a brick Beehive Oven and because it was her first experience she got to take home one of the loaves for Elder Thurgood to eat. A fire was made inside the oven & burned for 2 hours, then the coals were removed and freshly made bread put inside on an inverted cookie sheet. It was beautiful! All visitors to the FLC get to taste the bread.The next night we were honored to share it with Elder & Sister Hinton (Randy's parents) who had just arrived to serve their Nauvoo Temple Mission. We sure enjoyed having them over for dinner! They brought us a bottle of their homemade peaches & applesauce.
When our next batch of missionaries arrive we will have 270 missionaries here... we will be 25% of the residents of Nauvoo!
It was a thrill for us to be in the Women's Garden with all the tulips! Sis Thurgood helped build it. Years ago when the idea for this garden was formulated in honor of Relief Society, the Sisters were invited to donate to build it. They suggested 25 cents, which was the amount it cost to join the first Relief Society. We sat together in this beautiful garden and remembered the first Relief Society which came from a couple of friends wanting to help with the Nauvoo Temple. Margaret and Sarah decided to invite a few neighbors over to form a sewing club to make shirts for the men working on the temple. They asked Eliza to write a constitution which she presented to Brother Joseph who was shown that the women of Christ's ancient church were organized and that the women of the Church in our day also needed to be organized as part of the Restoration of all things. He did that for them (and us) in the top of the Red Brick Store here in Nauvoo. Relief Society members were suffragists for women's rights and invited to speak all over the world to win the right of the vote for women. Because of their efforts Utah and Wyoming became the first states to allow women to vote. During the Great Depression "Singing Mothers" groups in white blouses and black skirts sang all over the world and on KSL radio to give hope and cheer. In the late 1800's R.S. sent women to medical schools in the East. Deseret Hospital was run by the first all-female board of directors in the USA. RS women in Primary became concerned about the care of children and started Primary Children's Hospital. Sisters started the "Wheat Project" and it was used to help feed the survivors of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake as well as feed victims of WW I and WW II. The sisters raised money, bought and sold on the stock market and started church programs like the medical, social and welfare services. They had one of the first women's magazines in the world published for 50 years. Women pioneered the genealogy movement to gather family names, traveling back East for that purpose, writing articles for newspapers and magazines and lessons and organizing the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers. At the Worlds Fair in San Francisco in 1915, hundreds of RS Sisters saved money to attend just to visit the International Congress of Genealogy exhibit and see Sis. Wells (the RS Pres) receive a bronze medal for efforts made by the RS in Genealogy work. Women were sent to New York, Chicago and Denver for training in social work and a social services lesson was given every month in RS. The women started a 50-year Deseret Silk Association Industry in Utah. The women raised the silk worms, fed them mulberry leaves, spun the silk and weaved the cloth. I am so honored to belong to the Worlds largest and longest standing Women's Organization!!!Tug boats are starting to push barges up and down the Mississippi outside our window. This is 870 semi-truck loads of grain. 3 barges wide and 5 barges long pushed by a 6,000 hp tugboat! FUN!
