Saturday, July 16, 2016 – “The Promise”, Dinner at Hotel Nauvoo, Historic sites, “Rendezvous in Old Nauvoo” with Gurr’s

This afternoon we met up with the Gurr family for the 2:00pm show of “The Promise” put on by the YPM’s (Young Performing Missionaries). It was wonderful. The YPM’s do a great job in all of their shows here in Nauvoo.  And they are truly remarkable young people. There are 42 YPM’s and they perform in 10 different shows during the two months they are here. All day, every day, they move from venue to venue performing different shows.  Each show requires them to memorize all of the songs, dance routines and dialog. And, even more remarkable, when they first got here they only had two and a half weeks to rehearse before they started performing.  Like I said these young people are really remarkable.

Next we were off to tour two of the old historic homes in Nauvoo. The Heber C. Kimball home and the Wilford Woodruff home. After the tours, Adam & Ruth Gurr treated us to dinner at the all you can eat buffet at the Hotel Nauvoo. Mmmm Goood!

The Gurr’s last stop for the day was to watch Sis. Johnson and I perform in “Rendezvous in Old Nauvoo” at the Cultural Hall. I handed my camera to Ruth and she took pictures of Sis. Johnson and I performing. These are the first pictures we have of us live on stage. In the past I’ve only been able to post pictures of our rehearsals.  So, thanks to Ruth’s skill with my camera, we finally have live shots of us on stage during our performance.