We just completed our first Sabbath Day here in the historic town of Nauvoo. Our mission to Nauvoo will last 23 months and with the introductions we have received since Thursday, this will be a significantly magnificent experience for mom and me.
Our Sunday services began at 8:00am this morning. However, we arrived almost 30 minutes early to meet and greet more missionaries. (This will come as no surprise to our children!) The feelings of love and kindness were amazing. Every missionary is so happy to be here, at least the ones we have met.
We are currently the newest missionaries and will be serving the longest. We are here for 23 months and are scheduled to return home in January 2017. The group leaving before us is scheduled to leave in August 2016, so you see we have some time on our side to learn and grow together. Most are serving for 18 months, and some are serving for 12 months or less.
In the Sacrament meeting today, there were two couples assigned to speak. One couple goes home in two weeks after serving 18 months, and the other couple has been here about 6 months and will leave in about 12 months. Both couples spoke with great love for the work and we felt privileged to be in attendance. We also had a choir and violin accompanists that expressed such talent through music that left us in awe. After the meeting, I could not help but appreciate that we understood every word and that we felt the powerful affects of the Spirit.
The Sunday School class and the Priesthood and Relief Society Classes were all so very instructional and filled with the testimony of truth as well. The missionaries here have been so kind to us and have made us feel so welcomed. We have been blessed with a wonderful mission presidency and they and their wives have been extra kind and loving to us and have made us feel so welcomed and a needed part of this mission.
Sister Lasher and I then went home to enjoy lunch together and then we took 7 different site tours to get acquainted with the information and the feel for these historic sites. Then, to finished our day, we attended a fireside on the Prophet Joseph Smith, by a local historian, Craig Dunn. He has completed a wealth of information on the Prophet's last days and his martyrdom. I was fascinated with his 90 minute presentation. He has done his homework on the Prophet and I came home to view some additional information about the Prophet. Take a look at this information about the Prophet's last recorded dream by googling; "Josephs last dream". I had not heard this before and it is quite interesting.
A person once asked the Prophet who he was and he answered; "Noah came before the flood, I came before the fire". As we look at the world today, that statement is prophetic, and we have no need to fear if we are living, fully, the Gospel of Jesus Christ and working on improving our discipleship every day. That is what I want to do and what I am committing to do with my sweetheart from this day forward. The entire chapter of 3 Nephi 21offers even greater insights to what lies ahead!
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I like that quote "Noah came before the flood, I came before the fire". Very interesting!! What a fascinating place to be to learn more about Joseph smith and the early saints! I'm excited to hear more 😊!
ReplyDeleteIsn't that a marvelous quote? There is a great need to be better prepared for those things to come, but we will not be left comfortless or alone to face these challenges if we are trying our best to follow the Prophet and work on better developing those Christ like attributes that will serve us best in the things that are coming.
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