May 25, 2015 - Monday - Memorial Day

We started off this Memorial Day with our morning devotional together and enjoyed a nice start to the day.  We had the assignment to clean the jail and went over about 6:30am with a light rain falling.  By the time we got done cleaning, we decided the rain was not coming down hard enough to prevent us from taking a shortened walk.  The air was fresh and we enjoyed the time together.

We had to be at the Visitors Center earlier today, at 8:30am.  The summer hours began today and we open at 9:00am and close at 7:00pm, Monday through Saturday, and the hours remain 12:30pm to 5:00pm on Sunday's.  There were no scheduled tours today but we got there early just to be ready.  However, the guests were slow coming in on this Memorial Day, and by 3:00pm we had only seen about 50 visitors.  Not quite like yesterday's 433 for sure!

Sister Hansen is part of our Carthage team and plays the piano.  She has given concerts in Canada and is quite accomplished in her abilities to play the piano.  It is such a treat to hear her play.  She reminds me so much of Mary.  We had a group of Primary aged children come in and we were not quite ready to start their tour, soooooo, Sister Hansen gathers up the children and takes them to the piano room, and begins playing a medley of Primary songs.  The children immediately respond to her playing and I could not help but take an action shot of the children's response!

She played two Primary favorites.  "Families Can Be Together", and Popcorn Popping on the Apricot Tree.  The children sang and played right along with her.  

Then, tonight we had our Rendezvous performance where I made my big debut for the 8:15pm show.  My vignette only plays at this time so the 7:00pm show was just a warm-up without Pa and Jimmy!  When I finally got to my part I was very surprisingly calm.  The part went well and Jimmy was such a great participant!  Marie and Jimmy are two Young Performing Missionary parts of dozens of parts these college kids perform.  They are absolutely amazing and what a pleasure it was to kick off our summer season with them!!

It has been a wonderful day and I felt the prayers of all our families tonight!  That sure helped me remember my lines!!  Thank you so much!  Now, where are those audition offers............ I might win an Oscar.... you can never tell!