Wednesday, June 29, 2016 – Training Meeting, Aaron and Mira Daniels

We started early with our usual Mission-wide training meeting this morning in Nauvoo. It was a very good meeting. The Mission President, his counselors and all of the site and venue leaders are really ramping up for the July crush of visitors. This has been weighing heavy on Pres. Hall’s mind for the past several months. So the big push is on to be ready. Then President Hall explained that this past week one of the YSSM’s (Young Single Sister Missionaries) pointed out to him that this isn’t anything to be worried about. She said, “This is exactly the way things would have been in Nauvoo in 1844. There would have been 12 to 15,000 residents jamming the streets, going about their daily activities and living their normal lives as if nothing was different. And that’s the way we (All of the missionaries) should approach this coming month. We are all brothers and sisters in the Gospel; we will be just fine as life goes on.”

After our training meeting was over we headed to the parking lot and noticed our Nauvoo FM (Facilities Maintenance) counter parts watering the planters on the grounds of the Nauvoo Visitor’s Center, just like Sis. Johnson does the watering at Carthage. . . Only they use a much bigger watering pitcher than Sis. Johnson’s.

Back in Carthage we did our usual work, nothing interesting to report. Sis. Johnson did her usual cleaning and watering and I worked on the visitor center’s sprinkler system again. I’m still replacing broken sprinkler heads. It’s very interesting, the lawn mower’s tires and grass cutter blades don’t get along well with sprinkler heads! I don’t think I will ever finish replacing sprinkler heads.

This evening we had a special treat at our 8:15 show of “Rendezvous in Old Nauvoo.”  Aaron and Mira Daniels are here to visit Nauvoo for 3 days and they came to our performance. The Daniels are our dear friends from the Hillside Ward in the Mesa, AZ Lehi Stake. After the show we had a wonderful time visiting and refresh old friendships. We love to have friends come to visit us in Nauvoo.