Saturday, July 30, 2016 – Preparation Day, Clean & Wash the car, Country Market

For P-day, “Preparation Day, we didn’t do anything fun. We did work for a couple of hours though. We cleaned and watered the grounds of the visitor’s center.  The sidewalks always need cleaning and if Sis. Johnson hadn’t watered the flowers; they wouldn’t have made it until Monday, our next day to work. 

We worked at home too. Since it’s P-day we did a deep cleaning of our home as well as washed the car. We also did our weekly shopping at the local “Country Market.” We are very fortunate to have a Country Market in Carthage. Nauvoo doesn’t have one.

 

The Country Market chain has more than 100 independently owned stores operate in a dozen+ Midwestern states. They are part of the SuperValu Inc. Company and they favor small towns which is what Carthage is, a very small town of only 2800 people. The Country Market is right across the street from the visitor’s center and our home.

This evening we were about to leave for Nauvoo to perform in “Rendezvous in Old Nauvoo” when I went to get my keys out of my pocket to start the car and the keys weren’t there. They were in the house and we had just left the house, locked and shut the door behind us. A sickening feeling flooded over me as I realized I had locked us out of the house. Thirty minutes and five phone calls later the problem was solved.