Monday, Aug. 22, 2016 – “Rendezvous in Old Nauvoo,” Departing Missionaries, Elder & Sis. Hyte

We are performing in “Rendezvous in Old Nauvoo” twice a week now and tonight we only had one show at 7:00pm. Tonight was a bittersweet performance by some of our cast members. Some of them performed their last show because they are going home the first of next month. In fact the mission will send home 14 couples in the next three weeks.  One of the sisters in tonight’s show had to sing her part through tears she was so emotional; this was her last performance. 

In “Rendezvous” there are several vignettes where husbands and wives play opposite each other. Almost all of the vignettes have been played by couples that have been doing the same part for most of their missions. In the past few weeks new couples have been rehearsing to take their places and by next week some of them well start to perform their new parts for the first time.

“Rendezvous in Old Nauvoo” tells the story of the last few months in the city of Nauvoo in 1845 and the hard choices the Saints had to make as they prepared to leave their homes, their farms, their town and their beautiful Temple. Acting, singing and dancing in “Rendezvous” is one of the ways we missionaries testify of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ, the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon and the inspired mission of the Prophet Joseph Smith. Sis. Johnson and I love this opportunity and we love performing and serving here.