Sunday, September 25, 2016 – F&T Meeting, Carthage Visitor’s Center, District Meeting

This morning we were on our way to church a half hour later than usual. Of course. . . that was because we now live in Nauvoo, not in Carthage and our commute to church on Sunday morning is only 3 minutes instead of 33 minutes.

This afternoon we were assigned to be tour guides in the Carthage Visitor’s Center. This was our second time to get to give tours in Carthage. And, it is a real pleasure. We enjoy the people, the tours, and the church history that makes Carthage such a sacred and hallowed spot. Today Sis. Johnson did all of the tour commentary and I got to fill in as needed and bear my testimony at the end of each the tour. Sis. Johnson does an excellent job of bringing the spirit of the Lord to the tour. Everyone knows and understands by the end of the tour just why the Carthage Jail is so special to us as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

One of our tours had two couples that weren’t members of the LDS faith. This doesn’t happen very often and it was a special time for us, as tour guides, to share our faith and testimonies of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. After the tour was over I got to talk to one of the couple for fifteen minutes about our church’s history, our beliefs and in particular about Joseph Smith’s first vision. These opportunities are rare and I enjoyed speaking to the visitors. I know they felt the spirit very much.

Tonight we had our monthly District meeting. Since we are no longer in Carthage we are in a new

District here in Nauvoo named the Samuel Smith District. Elder & Sis. Jensen are our District leaders. We work with Sis. Jensen daily at FM, she’s the main secretary and receptionist at FM. District meetings always include dinner and tonight’s dinner very yummy and it was special because today was Fast Sunday and we broke our fast at the Jensen’s home. The dinner was great, the meeting was great and the company was the best of all. We are already good friends with all of the members of our new district.