The rest of the week

It was hard to top the British Pageant but Thursday night we went to the Nauvoo Pageant and it was wonderful too. Stories of early days in Nauvoo and how the people transformed a swamp into the beautiful City of Joseph. And it IS beautiful and we do LOVE Nauvoo!!  It’s a good thing we serve in the temple every day or this would feel like just one long extended vacation!  I’m so glad we can do something to earn our keep.  We also went to the Youth of Zion and Nauvoo Brass Band (first time for dad, 2nd for me). It is SOOOO GOOD.  They do it out in the open on Main Street so it’s up close and personal. We will be going to it several times. I can’t think I’ll ever get tired of hearing or watching them. I asked a band member how many songs they have to learn - about 100!!  I also took dad across the street to the tin smith shop (Sylvester Stoddard’s - perhaps an ancestor of some other wonderful Stoddard’s I know -????). And then through the “post office” and John Taylor’s home, and then to the little log home of brother Pendleton that was also used as a schoolhouse (basically a very small home where a few children would sit on the floor and be taught their lessons by brother Pendleton).  Dad and I also wandered down modern day Nauvoo’s business street - lots of tourist souvenir shops. I bought a couple of books of course. I told dad I’m getting as bad as Tyler with my book obsession. Other than that I have spent my time on the computer searching for ancestors and trying to unravel riddles. I’m collecting names for the kids to do baptisms when they’re all together in a couple of weeks - so put that on your schedule some time after Island Park.
Church today was great again.  I’m feeling quite at home in our little branch - at least in primary!  This evening we are going over to another missionary couple’s apartment so dad and brother cook can reminisce about their days as Irish missionaries😊. Life is good. No complaints. No worries.

 No problems ( I even got the car air conditioning to work again).