First Sunday

We went to church here in Nauvoo. Sometimes they have 2000 people in attendance it was a wonderful meeting - good people everywhere you go.  It’s so easy to love the missionary couples. Everyone of them comes over to meet and welcome us. They come from all over and from every temple. All strangers, but we feel immediately connected to them in this great work. There is nothing more wonderful than temple service and the good good people who do it.
Soon after church we were back in the temple for four more hours of instruction, training, and counsel from the temple presidency and matrons. It was all wonderful. After that we went  with Karen and Glen to what is called the Trail of Hope. You walk down the very street that the pioneers walked on as they left Nauvoo. The young performing missionaries are stationed all along the trail telling stories in the words of the pioneers who were leaving Nauvoo. It was so touching. Some places had singing and instrumental music that were part of that particular pioneer’s story. It was all so well done! At one point on the trail you could look back and see the temple all lit up and so beautiful. How hard it would have been for them to leave something they had worked and sacrificed so much for. I felt such a love for the temple here already. I can still hardly believe I have the blessing of being here-  immersed in temple service and in the history I love so much.

This is Parley Street - the wagons rolled down this street to the river.