Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016 – Corn stalks, Endowment Session

After our usual Wednesday mission-wide training meeting Sis. Johnson and I went to cut corn stalks. Sis. Johnson is on the “Boo-tiful Nauvoo” float committee. She and several other sisters will be decorating the Mission Float for the Boo-tiful Nauvoo town parade.

Ever Halloween the town of Nauvoo has a parade down the center of town. Every year the church has a horse drawn float decorated for Halloween. There will be pumpkin carving at FM and the whole town is invited. Last year there were over 500 Jack-O’lanterns carved by the town’s people as well as the Senior Missionaries. The commercial district will be completely decorated for the season.

Sis Johnson is excited and eager to help decorate the float. It will have up to 40 stalks of corn in bundles of 4 or 5 stalks all over the float. We had to pick the corn stalks now because they won’t be available much longer. Within the past two days the harvesting combines have started harvesting the corn in the area and all over central Illinois. The farmer’s field we picked from rents the land from the church and each year he lets us cut all we need.

This afternoon we went to the Nauvoo Temple with Grandma & Grandpa Burk. The temple is a special place and we enjoy serving there.