The temple is closed for two weeks. We miss being in there already. Our first fun activity was watching them get set up to replace the Moroni that had been hit by lightning. It was a freezing day - about 10 degrees! So we kept going from the car to outside and back again. It took forever for them to get the cranes all set up and in place so after about 4 hours we decided we had to move on to our trip to Springfield. I would have liked to see it all but we got a good taste of the enormity of the job. I am continually impressed with the great efforts that are made to maintain near perfect conditions in the temple and around all of Nauvoo. Dad and I had another turn at cleaning the temple and to think how every single night it is vacuumed and dusted and polished - makes me think I should improve on my sporadic home cleaning! Also, we have friends here serving a facilities management mission- those missionaries take care of all the landscape, mowing, weeding, planting, raking, snow shoveling, etc. now THAT is a mission of real service! It makes the temple feel like hardly a mission at all - just one big blessing!
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