As usual this last week and a half has
gone quickly. Out P-day is now on
Wednesday, so I will try to update my blog on Wednesday instead of
Saturday.
On Monday March 30th Sister
Barbara attended the annual Prairie Burn here in Nauvoo – Elder Ray was home in
bed so he only got to see the pictures. Everyone gathers for The Burn, local
folks, visitors and missionaries, to have
hot dogs and trimmings, and watch the Nauvoo Fire Department set fire to
an acre plot of un-mowed prairie grass.
It is beginning......
too hot.......
then it is over....
It is amazing how quickly it burns and one can only speculate how
frightening it would be for those long ago pioneers who faced such
dangers. It took about four minutes from
start to finish to burn the grasses, and believe me, it was scorching HOT when
the fire got to across the street from where most of us spectators were
standing. The crowd quickly moved back.
Elder Ray is feeling better and the
illness that was going through the community has reached its peak and I don’t
think any new cases are being reported.
Fortunately I missed this one.
We continue to give tours at the sites,
and are feeling more comfortable in doing them.
the drug and herb shelves.
We are less confident of our songs we sing (sometimes just pretending!) in the Rendezvous in Old Nauvoo one hour production. I have performed three times and Ray twice. Monday night we joined the practices for the Sunset On the Mississippi production. Less singing more dancing. I know you are laughing as you try to imagine us old folks doing these things. We may not be the oldest missionaries here, but there are only a couple that are older.
There are three casts made up of the
missionaries and each do two night of Rendezvous
and two nights of Sunset. Both
productions are performed every night except Sunday, but in different
locations. So each cast winds up doing plays four nights a week.
Six new missionary couples arrived last Friday,
and are the new newbies, and we are so glad they are here. Yesterday I worked four different sites with
Sister Thomas and we had to give tours at all of them. More missionaries are coming in this Friday
and the next, and when they are all trained we will not have to work more than
one site at a time.
It is Spring break for lots of folks and
there were about 60 people here yesterday from Atlanta, Georgia alone. Summer brings about 3000 a day when the
pageants are going on.
You can go to: http://www.historicnauvoo.net/ and find out what all is going on this summer. There are the two
pageants in July plus other things, so you will have lots to see and do when
you come.
We are loving meeting people from all over the
world, and telling them about Nauvoo, and the love those Saints had for the Savior and his Gospel
that brought them here.
We may trip once
in a while (especially on these long full skirts!) but we are still
running!
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