News from the Nauvoo Homefront

The commemoration of the organization of the RS is on March 17. I am looking forward to this! It is a big event here in Nauvoo. I have been asked to take a part in the little play that will be put on in the Red Brick Store. It will be on March 17 and we will present it three times during that day/evening. The upstairs room in the store won't hold very many people so that is the reason for the multiple presentations. I am excited to be a part of it. There are some very talented sisters in our mission. One sister wrote the script and another sister composed a song just for the occasion.

Elder Richard Hinckley is touring the mission this weekend. He will speak to us Monday morning during our combined preparation meeting. Elder Holland will be in Nauvoo for the Nauvoo Stake Conference the weekend of March 14. The missionaries have been uninvited to the meetings! The stake president is afraid there won't be seats for the stake members if all the missionaries come. Elder Holland will speak to the missionaries in a special meeting that Sunday evening. We love hearing from the General Authorities who visit Nauvoo.

We were invited to attend a Coordinating Council meeting with the area authority and stake presidents in the St. Louis area. Since the meeting was early this morning, we were given permission to spend the night in St. Louis. Ah, a good choice of restaurants for dinner, a motel room with a TV and 50* temps! Oh, the things that make us happy as missionaries!?!

"Our Story Goes On", the pageant outreach program, is going to be presented in the St. Louis area this next summer. We were there to familiarize Presidents with the program, give some ideas on organizing and answer questions. We felt like it was a great opportunity for us to get the ball rolling for this event.

We have been seeing a lot of cardinals around recently. They are such a pretty bright red and they have a very distinctive song. Red cardinals are kind of a "signature" of Nauvoo.

The best news I have for this week is that we can now see grass in our yard! This picture was taken 1 1/2 wks ago. This week we had temps in the high 40's and we had a lot of melting. Now instead of snow in the driveway we have mud!