Saturday, August 30, 2014

Our Days in Nauvoo August 24th - 30th 2014



Hello Family and Friends,

I can't believe that August is over tomorrow!  Where did the summer go?  Nova has already started school and our Idaho kids start this next week.

Sunday, August 24 – We enjoyed church today.  We are glad the Davis’s are back - and the trip doesn’t seem as long as it used to.  They asked Linda Davis and I to substitute a Primary class as we walked in.  We taught the 7-8 year old class.  It was fun.  It was great going to singing and sharing time.  
            
Monday, August 25 – One of our assignments at the temple this morning was to be an endowment patron so that was a treat.  We don’t have any more of our own family names but there are lots of workers here who have names.  The Johnson’s made reservations for our apartment at the Ivy Bake Shop in Fort Madison for FHE.  Our little FHE lesson was on how the Lord puts us where we are supposed to be and how important it is to have sufficient faith.  We have had a great day.
           
Tuesday, August 26 – We got up early and walked to Horton Lake with Paul and Linda Ricks, wonderful temple missionary friends from Rexburg.  We talked way more than we walked but it was a great way to start out the day.  We went to the Family Search Center and got a few questions answered.  The temple was really slow today.  One session only had ordinance workers as patrons. 

 
             
Wednesday, August 27 –  The temple was slow again this afternoon and we were supposed to be #2 on the 5:00 session and ended up as patrons.  I always enjoy doing that.  The temple missionaries were invited to a site RS meeting on nutritional eating.  The sister who presented it does only raw foods.  It was really interesting but I'm thinking almost impossible to do.

Thursday, August 28 -  A slow morning at the temple.  We were scheduled to be patrons at 8:00 and I love doing sessions.  It's a good thing because we have done sessions 8 days out of the last 14 temple days.  Too bad we haven’t had our own family names to do.  I think this is what they do a lot during the winter months.  We came home and moved the furniture around in the apartment.  I think I will like it better.  I’ve wanted to do it for the last 4 months.  Joanne Robison, a temple missionary, taught an art class tonight, teaching us to use the right sides of our brains. We drew pictures from color book pages but the picture we looked at, as we drew, was upside down and we drew upside down on our paper too.  It was very interesting.  I couldn't help but think about how wonderful Mckenna draws and all the little girls in our family who love art.  I thought it was a one-time class but it is going to be every week. However they are adding a 6:00 session at the temple every night this next week and our teacher works in the afternoons.   Our last sessions have been at 5:00 PM.  They are adding  6, 7 and 8 PM sessions on Friday nights starting next week in hopes that the later times will work better for people to come.
           
Friday, August 29 - Today was our p-day and we didn’t have anything planned and I had hoped that I could go the whole day without putting nylons on.  I did run some letters to the post office but dropped them off at the box so I went in levis.  But we ended up going to buy groceries this evening so the dress and nylons went back on.  I don’t think I’ve gone a day here without being in a dress.  We did get quite a bit done here today though.  I have been writing letters and Dad has worked on getting our social security set up.  We had to wait in the car at Walmart in Keokuk for a major rainstorm to pass.  We have had lots of rain the last few days. 
           
 Saturday, August 30 – Our temple assignment this morning was the Arrival Center.  We were busy there and it was fun.  We had 2 bigger groups come for baptisms and a few small walkins.  We had a wedding with lots of children and wedding clothes to change into for pictures.  We had one couple with 2 little girls that took turns going over to the temple.  We had 2 groups come that weren’t members and wanted to watch the temple video.  It was fun.  We have invited our apartment to come tonight at 6:00 to watch the movie “Heaven is for Real.”
There are a lot of green lilies growing in the Mississippi River.  They have a pretty yellow flower on them but you can't see it very well in the pictures.  The water isn't deep where the lilies grow and it is surprising how much of the river has these lilies.  








Here is another picture of the field of praire grass that they let grow so people can see how tall it gets.  I think I sent a picture in June with Heather and Quinton standing in front of it.  If you look close, the temple is in the background.


I guess my challenge for this week is to try to go to the temple.  We are blessed to have 2 so close and it is sad to me that this beautiful temple in Nauvoo is so empty.  We are depriving ourselves of the needed blessings that come from our going.  

We love you all and miss you!!

Love, Mom and Dad / Grandpa and Grandma / Elder and Sister Hall


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