Wednesday, September 27, 2017 – Mission Training Meeting, YSSM’s Assignments Outbound, More Flowerbeds Pulled and Weeding, Sis. Johnson Stung two more times!

This morning’s Mission Training Meeting was excellent. Two of the YSSM’s (Young Single Sister Missionaries) taught us all about the use of the mission’s “Teaching Center” computers and program. We were taught how to log on, understand the instructions, recognize all of the icons and know their functions.

The Teaching Center is a wonderful missionary tool and it is something only missionaries are able to use. In fact there are only a few missions were it is available and Navuoo is one of them. On LDS Chat rooms from around the world people interested in learning about the church log on and they are connected with missionaries in the Teaching Centers.  They can have their Gospel questions answered or have a free Bible or Book of Mormon hand delivered to them. If they like, follow-up contacts can be made by phone, text messages or email as well as through the chat room. 

All of the Senior Missionaries in the Nauvoo Mission are encouraged to use the Teaching Center in the Visitor’s Center or they can us the same system on their own PC’s at home. One of our Seniors said he often gets up in the middle of the night unable to sleep so he logs on to the Church’s Teaching Center System and fields questions from around the world where it isn’t in the middle of the night.  It was pointed out that those on the Teaching Center are told to “go by the Spirit and you will know what to say; you are missionaries of the Lord!” D&C 100:6 “For it shall be given you in the very hour, yea, in the very moment, what ye shall say.”

The YSSM’s serve 18 month mission but only serve here in Nauvoo for two of the busy summer season. For their first six months they are here in Nauvoo, then the next six months they go “Outbound” to regular proselyting missions somewhere else in the US. Then for the last six months of their mission they return here to Nauvoo and finish their missions during the busy summer. Those YSSM’s that are going “Outbound” received their new assignment  and in today’s Mission Training meeting  it was a thrilling moment as each companionship of sisters announced to us were their “outbound” missions would be. They are going all over, to: Arkansas, North Dakota, Ohio, Michigan and Georgia. They leave October 18^th. Good luck and God’s speed Sisters. You will be a tremendous asset to the new missions you are going to! You are great missionaries.

We got a lot of work done even though our workday was a little short because of Mission Training Meeting this morning. We pulled more flowerbeds and we weeded and cleaned more historic sites.

 Sis. Johnson is asking “Why me?” today while we pulled the flowerbeds at one of the historic homes she was stung twice on the leg. The two sting points were close together and the big swollen red spot on her leg was about as big around as a tennis ball! OUCH!!! She doesn’t know what stung her but she went home and put some Benadryl cream on the sting and took a liquid antihistamine to prevent an allergic reaction.  By the end of the day she was much better. The redness and swelling were all gone.