Monday: biked 9.25 miles; walked .67 miles. More cleaning in preparation for exiting the apartment— my dresser drawers, bathroom, finish top kitchen cupboards, cupboards on both sides of oven and get car ready to pack
Tuesday: temple shift 6:15. Came home to bike ride and chain was off, discovered 2 bolts were missing. Drove to Burlington to the bike store, an hour away then back to Nauvoo. Ray fixed the bike and rode 8.4 miles, getting dark.
Wednesday: 7:00 am shift, much nicer. After shift, we rode 8.92 miles, showered and back to the temple to participate with Janet Schultz family group sealing of her Biddle family, then we did a proxy endowment session.
Thursday: 7:00 am shift and we were assigned the leaders of the endowment session—that means, we sit at the front sides, open the doors as we go from room to room,I closed the doors behind the group attending and Ray moves the chairs out of the way in the last room😇. After our shift, we biked 5 1/2 miles—I’ve injured my right foot, the one I jump on the pedal with; it’s bruised and swollen. We went back to the temple for a 4:30 proxy endowment
Friday: 6.31 miles biking but the pain in my inner foot has cut our mileage short. I am using the ball of my foot to power with which Rays says I should have been using all the time. We had our regular afternoon shift with a late Friday 9:00 pm veil. My schedule only went to 7:30 so I got a ride home with Pam Lewis. I’m tired.
Saturday: biked 6.5 miles with my foot wrapped; it’s healing. Served our shift until 5:30 in the Arrival Center because they knew by reservations the temple was going to be busy all day everywhere. It was busy in the Arrival center with recommends that were forgotten, out of date, etc. plus lots of youth, Cedar Rapids stake youth and families to be carded with pink or blue slips and family names to be printed. The whole day was slammed.
Sunday: fast Sunday. We watchedBYUtv devotional, music and the spoken word; our ward doesn’t start until 12 noon. Walked 3/4 mile, keeping my foot wrapped. Shortly after church, we were blessed to be part of an annual special missionary worker devotional in the Assembly Hall. This is this presidencies last one as this year ends their 3 year assignment. Each of the presidency and matrons spoke. It was tender. In between couples was a musical, sister Larsen on piano, sister little on flute and sister Palmer on viola playing “Come thou fount of every blessing” and the second number was President Church’s daughters singing “Window to His Love”. It was beautiful. And the Church’s remarks have been their theme: “ I could quote the prophets and apostles but my message is Love. It feels good and this is what the Lord wants His children to experience “. We had a group temple missionaries in our picture taken in front of the temple and then had dinner with our housemates, Whittiers, who made chicken fajitas that were delicious. I took their favorite—pico with chips. He tested it by the bowl before everyone else came😁👍. Then we left to get the family call. It’s like fresh beating blood to our hearts to see our family! Thanks for being on and for the message on family, thanks Nathan. We love you all. The gospel is true; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is restored with apostles and prophets in these days. We have been urged by our prophet to study the conference talks, read the Book of Mormon, attend church, be intentional in attending the temple, keep our eyes on covenants and prepare for the second coming. This is our day to Love the Lord, keep His commandments, and strengthen and lift each other. Carry on, carry on, carry on!
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