Wednesday, October 04, 2017 – Zone Trg Mtg, New Grove Hauling limbs, Pull More VC Flowerbeds

This morning we had Zone Training Meeting. Once again it was a very good and instructional meeting put on by our Zone Leaders, Elder & Sis. Hughes.  Once again Elder Hughes concluded the meeting with a very good spiritual thought and message. He said, too often we kneel beside our beds and pray earnestly, fervently and even pleadingly for answers to our problems. But, if we would just look over on our night stand and read the Conference issue of the Ensign and our copy of the Scriptures, we would find all of the answers to life’s problems. A point well taken!

Our work day started in the New Grove again. This morning continued the process of cleaning up the New Grove. We hauled away a lot of the “Rogue Tree,” limbs and weeds.  It started to sprinkle on us so everything was wet and a little messy but after we stopped for our mid-morning break the whole area looked a lot nicer. There is a lot of work left to do but we will keep after it. This morning was a good start.

The rest of the day, before and after lunch we were back in the flowerbeds of the Women’s Garden and the Visitor’s Center. We finished pulling the flowers and plants in the last of the flowerbeds in the Women’s garden. There is a little left to do, like remove Richard Hancock’s prize banana plant and a few others but the Women’s Garden is finally pulled and ready for Tulip bulbs. Maybe in the next week or two we’ll be planting those.

We also pulled more of the flowerbeds in the front of the Visitor’s Center. These big beautiful show pieces of flowers have adorned the Visitor’s Center all summer and they’ve been a wonderful “Welcome to Nauvoo” invitation to all of the visitors who come and visit this very special place.