Thursday, October 26, 2017 – Pumpkin Carving, Lyon Drug & Arbor Cleanup, Deep Cleaning, Dinner at E&S Beecher’s

Let the pumpkin carving begin! Today bus loads of students as well as local residents and Senior Missionaries came to the FM Compound “B” Building to start carving about 500 Jack-o-lanterns for this weekend’s “Boo-tiful Nauvoo” Festival and Parade.

 The fateful day arrived. . . We took all of the annual plants out of the Lyon Drug Herb Gardens. That included all of the beautiful Marigolds, Caster Bean plants and Gourd vines on the arbor. A killing frost is forecast for this weekend so their days were numbered anyway.  But WOW, they sure were beautiful while they lasted and it was a genuine pleasure to walk the paths of the gardens of Lyon Drug and enjoy the beauty.

This afternoon after work we were back at the chore of deep cleaning our home in preparation for our trip home next Monday. Today’s cleaning included the master bedroom and the kitchen. Sis. Johnson has been deep cleaning every day after work this week. There is still a lot to do but we are making a dent.

This evening we had a delightful dinner at the home of Elder & Sis. Beecher. They are in our Rendezvous cast and we’ve come to know and love the Beechers for their example of hard work and dedicated missionary service. They are great and we will miss them when we leave. The Beechers are the Nauvoo Pageant Coordinators and they put in tireless hours every day preparing, screening, selecting and scheduling volunteer pageant cast members.