At this morning’s FM prayer meeting Elder Swain
was presented an FM keepsake flag as a parting gift from Jordan Bodily, FM’s
Director. Elder Swain has held down several positions at FM and has done a
great job and given many hours of tireless service. Elder Swain and his wife
will be going home next Monday. Well done Elder & Sis. Swain, and thank you
for all of your hard work and dedicated service to the mission.
We finished our work week doing the same thing
we’ve done all week, transplanting seedlings. Today we transplanted Zinnias.
I’ve always liked Zinnias. Back in Arizona I always grew them in my flower
garden and we used them in the floral designs. I especially like Zinnias
because they are one of the few flowers that can tolerate Arizona’s blistering
summer heat.
Sis. Johnson was asked
by Sis. Hopkin to make a floral centerpiece for this afternoon’s “Re-enactment”
of the organization of the “Female Relief Society” in Nauvoo in 1842. Of course
Sis. Johnson was delighted to make the flower arrangement. It turned out very
well. In fact there were some left over flowers and Sis. Johnson put them in
small Mason jars for the window sill in the Red Brick Store. She ended up using
every stem of flowers.
After the Re-enactment was over Sis. Hopkin gave
the large centerpiece to Sis. Hall the Mission President’s wife. She also gave
all of the small window sill flowers to each of the sister’s that had a part in
this afternoon program. A nice tribute to all of them for their hard work,
practice and excellent job of portraying those early saints that formed the
original Relief Society of the church.
Tonight for our
performance of “Rendezvous in Old Nauvoo” we had a huge turnout of guests.
There were two tour bus loads of youth and leaders from the Little Rock
Arkansas Stake in attendance so that required two shows. The second show
started at 8:15pm just fifteen minutes after the first show got out. Sis.
Johnson and I played “George & Agatha” and this is our first time to give
two performances back to back on the same night. Actually, we liked it because
in the second show we were able to correct all of the mistakes we made in the
first show.
The youth and leaders from Little Rock and all of
the other families in attendance were a great audience, they laughed, cried,
clapped, cheered, tooted and hollered. Sis. Johnson commented that this was the
first time since she’s played Agatha that the audience CHEERED as the doctor,
played by Elder Rober, said, “We’ll take care of her. I’m afraid we’re going to
have to take her away!”
After the final show Elder Lindeburg made a special
presentation to our director, Sis. Lowe. Elder & Sis. Lowe are leaving for
home next week. Elder Lindeburg made the presentation on behalf of all of the
cast members that have been under Sis. Lowe’s patient training and watchful
eye.
Elder Lindeburg rescued
part of the trunk of the huge Ash tree that was cut down a month ago (See Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017). The old Ash tree stood as a sentinel beside the
Cultural Hall for 110 years. It had to be cut down because it became decayed in
the center and posed a hazard. But Elder Lindeburg used a slice of the trunk to
fashion a clock face, sanded, finished and polished it. It was a beautiful
gift. Thank you Sis. Lowe for all the hours you put in teaching us to be good
performing missionaries so we can share our love of the Savior and the message
of the restoration of the Gospel Jesus Christ.
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