Thursday, October 20, 2016 – Family Living Center, Nauvoo Conservation, Elder Hacking & BYU Football

Our whole work day consisted of cleaning the grounds around the “Family Living Center.” Sis. Johnson and I dug, weeded, pulled, pruned, raked and hauled. It was windy and cold, quite a contrast to last Monday when it was in the 90’s. Today it was in the 50’s but with the wind if felt colder than that. 

After lunch we talked to Elder Walker and he invited us to the second story “Conservation & Artifact” room. Elder Walker works at FM like we do but in his free time he volunteers to work in the “Conservation & Artifact” room.

 

Elder Walker worked in Nauvoo as a student of Archeology in 1968. Back then the restoration of Old Nauvoo was just getting started and he was involved from the beginning. Back in the early days of the restoration of Nauvoo they didn’t know how to preserve the artifacts like they do today. Elder Walker’s task today is to remove all of the old artifacts from their old storage containers and put them in new “Acid Free” and airtight, baggies and boxes. He spends most of his time on the computer categorizing and cataloging everything in storage. It is a huge undertaking but Elder Walker thinks it will finally be done in a few months. 

The upstairs room we were in was full of artifacts, one of a kind treasures, relics and construction materials from the 1840’s in Old Nauvoo. He showed us three boxes full of Red Nauvoo bricks that had been laced together in a “herringbone pattern” on the floor of the original Nauvoo Temple baptistery. He pulled one out and let me hold it. He said, it’s awe inspiring to think that Prophets of God walked on this very brick. You can say that again! Everything in the room was “Awe Inspiring.”

 

Last Tuesday evening when Sis. Johnson and I met with Elder & Sis. Hacking, Elder Hacking commented to me that he really missed watching BYU football since he’s been on a mission.  I invited him to come over to our house to watch the game live on line. He didn’t hesitate to take me up on the offer.

Last Tuesday evening when Sis. Johnson and I met with Elder & Sis. Hacking, Elder Hacking commented to me that he really missed watching BYU football since he’s been on a mission.  I invited him to come over to our house to watch the game live on line. He didn’t hesitate to take me up on the offer.