Monday, August 21, 2017 – Clouds Lightning and Rain, Indoor Projects, Women’s Garden & Visitor’s Center, Eclipse of the Sun

We got to work today under threatening cloud that followed through on their threat. Lighting crackled and danced as thunder boomed all around the FM compound. We had to scramble for shelter as we watered the outdoor benches. 

We had to find indoor projects until the rain stopped. Elder Kyle Johnson, Elder Cantwell and I worked in the greenhouses pulling the dreaded weed, Oxalis. Weeding the greenhouses is a good rainy day project. Sis. Johnson worked in the propagation room washing and sanitizing pots that will be used next winter and spring.

Once the rain stopped Elder Kyle Johnson and I were off to the Women’s garden, the Visitor’s Center, the Cultural Hall and Old Main street to blow the sidewalks and cleanup after the wind made a mess of things. Elder Cantwell went with Elder Coleman to water the planters and flowerbeds at the Visitor’s Center and on Main Street. The Rain probably wasn’t enough so they had to finish giving everything a good drink of water.

After work today we were treated to the Solar Eclipse that the rest of the nation enjoyed. Here in Nauvoo we were supposed to be at 95% eclipse. Unfortunately, just before the eclipse reached its maximum here, big black ominous clouds rolled into Nauvoo and completely blocked out the sun.

Sis. Johnson, Elder Kyle Johnson and I used special eclipse approved sunglasses and we got to watch most of the eclipse. When it got to about 90% that’s when the clouds moved in and the show was over for us.