Monday the core cast for the Pageant arrived. We rode our bike 7.5 miles. We were blessed to get to feed Amy and Ava, India, Portia and Cole. We went to see Sunset on the Mississippi again. It is better than the first time. Some funny advertisement was included this time. They have so much energy and fun in the Nauvoo performing missionaries.
It is such a blessing to serve. There is nothing like it—a continual reminder to look to Jesus Christ and Live!
Tuesday after our early morning shift, we biked 7.6 miles, we’re inching up😳. We ate with the Thurston and Lewis couples from Cedar City. They made smothered burritos. They were amazing with relish on the side. Wow! And then we played one round of “Five Crowns”.
Wednesday 7:05 prepreparation meeting because of my position at floor 1 chair 2. We’re looking forward to Raymond III coming this afternoon. We rode 7.96 miles today. Riding bikes is my favorite exercise. We got to fe3d Raymond tonight and cute Amy and the four children came by too. This is great!
Thursday we worked at the Arrival Center. It was a crazy day. A bus came in with 70 youth who wanted to be baptized—no appointments. We had just sent a group of 25 over and three families were scheduled soon. I told them that we would process them (meaning, run their recommends, take names and birthdays of those without their recommends and then call the baptistry for permission to send them.) We got permission to send 10 at a time in intervals. Ray walked the first batch over. Then three families came that were scheduled so while I processed them, Ray took another group of unscheduled youth over and returned to take the families over. We were just waiting for a phone call to get in trouble😩.
A Smith family came in from Preston, ID—-yes, they are related to us, third cousins. Yes, we had a phone call, but not what we expected. Not because we sent too many youth over but because someone was turned away by someone and it was perceived that it was us at the Arrival Center. Not us, but no questions were asked so Ray actually received THE phone call.😢so onward, ever onward as we glory in His name🥰. Elder Larry and Sister Larson invited us to ride with them to Carthage for the 180th Anniversary of the martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith. It was really wonderful! The performing missionaries sang for 30 minutes beautiful hymns of the Savior and then Sister Meir spoke and I thought “we’ll, it won’t get better than that”. Then Elder Joseph Monsen spoke and I wanted a printed copy. Then President Meir spoke and he was amazing. Yep, I wish I could hear it all over again! How we love the prophets seers and revelatory from Old Testament-latter-days! How full we feel to know we are Gods children and we want to be like Him. Step by step, then a trip or fall, and get up again. He still loves us all!
Friday 8.22 bike miles. We prepared papers for baptisms for India, Boyd, and Ava which they did at the baptistry today. We didn’t get to watch but we so appreciate their service for our ancestors. We started serving in the temple at 12:20-7:15 pm today. This is our regular schedule except when we go until 9:15 pm but that won’t happen again until pageant is over. The core cast for the pageant came for the 2:00 endowment session so that was so nice to see our friends and some of our new temple friends got to meet Raymond and Jake and Susan so that was a treat for me to hear about or be part of. We were the leaders for the 5:15 endowment session. After the temple we watched some of the pageant rehearsal on stage but left as the temple schedule makes us pretty tired.
Saturday 8.2 miles, 40 minutes, done by 7 am. I had signed up for the ward “Get to Know You” and then didn’t have time to go before temple assignment😔whoops. I wanted to go. 12:30-8:00 pm baptistry—it was a big day!
Sunday—sacrament meeting, actually 5th Sunday meeting—both were wonderful! I was moved to tears. It seems to happen every Sunday😇. No time for emotions. We hurried to our apartment and set out the food I had been preparing all week: 5 cup salad, potato salad, cole slaw, pasta salad, toss salad, baked beans, pizza strips, fried chicken and cherry cream cheese pie and lemon aid Raymond and Boyd came, Susan and Jake and Amy, India, Portia, Cole, and Ava. They sang happy birthday👍❤️ to Ray. They had meetings after and dad took a nap, I cleaned up and put away. At 8:00 we went to “Our Story Goes On” with many of our new temple friends attended. I had warned them to bring Kleenex so everything was just right. Afterwards, many of them came up and told us thanks for telling them about it so they could attend. Susan, Jake, and Boyd were great, of course as were the other participants. It’s a moving story. How we love the Plan of Happiness with the Joys of posterity. There is nothing that even comes close to being part of the family of God and the love He shares with us as we multiply and replenish the earth as families! We thank God for His plan of redemption, change, and eternal life as families!
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