March 22, 2015 - Sunday

This has been a very busy Sabbath Day for both mom and me.  We both taught the lesson in Priesthood and Relief Society and I had the privilege of assisting in blessing the Sacrament this morning.  Then mom and I drove to Carthage with Elder and Sister Wright who had the assignment to work with us today.  It was a beautiful day with a brisk wind that gave us a chill when we went from the Visitor's Center to the jail on our tours.  The hours for the Carthage Visitor's Center today was 12:30pm to 5:00pm.  We had a light turnout at Carthage today and gave tours to about 60 visitors.  We had one family that came and their mother was one of the actors in the Cokeville Miracle Movie we saw this evening for our "sociable",(another term for fireside).  

Both mom and I felt very good about our lessons and we were well supported by the spirit.  Our assigned lesson was Chapter 6 in Teachings of the Prophets, Ezra Taft Benson.  If only more people would have listened and acted upon his counsel and teachings back in the 60's!  We are so very grateful to associate with such good people here in the Nauvoo Mission.

And the fireside was amazing.  TC Christensen, an LDS film maker, was there and is the one who put the movie together.  The release date is June 5th in the Utah Valley, and if it does well, he will release it in Arizona and Idaho.  I guess they have test areas where it will most likely be well received and then the area expands into other markets.  Mom and I both felt it was an excellent yet very intense movie.  We do not recommend that any of our grandchildren go and see it.  Probably 18 and up might be able to best handle the intensity as it involves those precious elementary children and a madman and his wife.  However the message was excellent.

It has been a good day and we are preparing for a busy week of moving to Carthage this week.  We have both Wednesday and Thursday off this week to move and get resettled there in our huge home in Carthage.