April 22, 2015 - Wednesday

Wednesday has been our permanent preparation day since we arrived here in the Nauvoo Mission in February 2015.  Mom and I look forward to our day off together where we always start each day with our morning devotional and exercise.  We then we attend the mission training meeting that takes place each Wednesday morning at 7:45am and follow that by a temple session right after that meeting.  We then get a few hours to do laundry, shop and take care of car washings, etc. 

However, over the next two weeks the temple is closed so that gave us another 2 hours of prep time together.  And we took great advantage of that time!

After getting up early for our meeting this morning, we headed to Keokuk for a few groceries.  We headed home to unload them and to check out a barber here in Carthage.  When we were in line to check out at the grocery store in Keokuk, mom struck up a conversation with a couple who we found out work at the Kibbe Museum here in Carthage and they recommended "Brownie" at the Carthage barber shop.  It was a great recommendation and here is the haircut pictured to the left.... what a pathetic picture but what a great haircut!  However, I know that all my grandchildren will love the picture!!

Mom and I took a ride to Quincy this afternoon, and had a fun outing together knowing that we had some extra time today.  We looked over their mall and got a few things at Sam's Club, and then headed home for lunch.  I was able to do a little clean-up on the van and then we got to sit in the sun on the front lawn for a few minutes before heading to Rendezvous for the play tonight.  

As you can see, it has been a very quiet day. You can probably tell that this was a slow news day today.......  By any chance did the self portrait give it away?  I thought I was pretty discrete about it ....

Well, we will have some better news tomorrow!  We will be back to work and greeting the visitors coming to the Visitors Center.  We are grateful to be here in Carthage working with so many wonderful visitors!  And we hope to see many of our family and friends here in the coming months!!!

Thank you for checking in with us tonight!