Sunday, August 06, 2017 – Sis. Hipple – Rendezvous’ New Director, E&S Huffaker

We had a wonderful Fast and Testimony meeting today. The Pageant is over now and “Sunset” is winding down. There are a lot of Senior couples going home in a few weeks and all of the Young Performing Missionaries will be going home soon too. Many of them gave wonderful testimonies including one of the Pageant coordinators, Sis. Beecher. Wow, what great testimonies by her and everyone else. Our Mission President, Pres. Hall was the first to bear his testimony and he set the tone for everyone else who followed him. He bore a powerful and uplifting testimony of Nauvoo, the Prophet Joseph Smith and the restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Equally powerful and significant were the testimonies of our two directors, Sis. Rober and Sis. Moench. Both go home in only a few weeks. Sis Rober is our director of “Sunset by the Mississippi” and Sis. Moench is our director of “Rendezvous in Old Nauvoo.” Both sisters bore powerful and moving testimonies of their work as directors along with special thanks to all those who worked so hard to make this year’s productions successful and full of “The Spirit of Nauvoo.”

And speaking of Sis. Moench going home in a few weeks, her departure necessitates a replacement as the director of “Rendezvous.” Directing “Rendezvous” is no small task. It is a full time job and the director is required to be at every show every night, six nights a week usually from 6:00PM to 10:00PM.  Earlier this week the announcement was made that the new director will be Sis. Hipple. Today after our Sunday services I offered my congratulation to Sis. Hipple on her new calling and I offered my condolences to Elder Hipple on the loss of his wife! HaHaHa. But seriously, Sis. Hipple will do a great job.