Friday, September 23, 2016 – Work in Nauvoo and Carthage, Passed Inspection!

Sis. Johnson and I put in long hard days of work today. This time I worked in Carthage and Sis. Johnson worked in Nauvoo with Richard Hancock. Richard is our new boss, he is FM’s Horticulturalist. Also working with Sis. Johnson and Richard was another Senior couple, the Nagel’s. Together they cleaned up and took apart flower beds at several locations including the Lyon Drug and the Memorial to the Pioneers at the end of the trail of hope. They pulled some of the ornamental grass from around the Temple grounds and took them back to the greenhouses for propagation for next spring’s planting.

I spent my whole day watering and cleaning at the Carthage Visitor’s Center and mowing at the Bushnell House. Either Sis. Johnson or I will be coming back to Carthage about twice a week to clean, water, rake, prune and mow.

 

While I was at Carthage, Sis. Hopkin, came by our old house to do an inspection. Her job is to see that every Senior couple that moves out of a house, leaves it “Better than they found it.” Thankfully, all our hard work “Deep Cleaning” yesterday paid off, we passed with flying colors.

 

Next, two Sisters from FM’s “Conservation” department came to inspect our old house. Their job is to inventory every single item in the house and verify that everything that was there when we moved in is still there when we moved out. Since all of the mission houses are furnished, they had a very long check list of things they had to find. They had to count all of the furniture, pots & pans, plates, bowls, cups, cooking utensils and even every knife, spoon and fork.