Tuesday, August 01, 2017 – Weeded the “Village Inn,” Sarah Granger Kimball, Oral Surgery

We started our day at an apartment complex where missionaries live called “The Village Inn.” No one knows why it’s named that but it is right across the street from the State Park in Nauvoo and the country side there is very picturesque. However the landscaping has been neglected lately and the flowerbeds were full, I mean REALLY full of weeds. 

This apartment complex isn’t on our list of responsibilities so we were completely unaware that there was a problem.  It took us a couple of hours to clean the main flowerbed in the parking lot. It took so long because we had to dig out the trees and bushes roots and all. We couldn’t just cut them down and poison the trunk. When we finished, the flowerbed looked much better.

Our next stop was to clean the flowerbeds at the historic home of Sarah Granger Kimball. It was here, in this home that the original idea of a Women’s Society was conceived by Sarah Granger Kimball 175 years ago. The Prophet Joseph Smith took the idea to the Lord and through divine inspiration the Female Relief Society of the Church was established in 1842.

We had to leave work early today because I had an appointment with the oral surgeon to have a tooth extracted. The root was cracked and it has been bothering me for a while. The doctor we were referred to is in Burlington Iowa, only 30 miles to the north so it wasn’t a long drive to get there. However our trip was delayed about 20 minutes as the barge traffic on the Mississippi River at Fort Madison had the “swinging truss bridge” closed while two barges went by in opposite directions.  It was an impressive sight though.

The Oral Surgeon’s name I went to in Burlington was Dr. Jason Thompson DDS. I was surprised to find out that he attends the Burlington Ward and he is on the Nauvoo Stake High Council! Before the operation I enjoyed talking to the doctor and getting to know him. Our boss, Richard Hancock, is also on the Nauvoo Stake High Council. 

The tooth extraction went very well and was completely successful without any problems. After we left the Dentist office we drove a few block to the Super Walmart store and had my prescriptions for antibiotics, mouth rinse and pain medication filled. While we waited for the Rx to be filled Sis. Johnson and I did some shopping for my all liquid/soft food diet I’ll be on for two weeks.