September 21, 2015 - Monday in Nauvoo

What a gorgeous morning in Nauvoo!  We were up early and happy to begin this day with our morning devotional and then a wonderful brisk walk around Nauvoo and along the Mississippi River.  We extended our walk to include the river walk and it was wonderful.  The temperature this morning was a cool 50 degrees.  We saw the deer getting their breakfast and the sun coming over the horizon.  Fall is in the air!

Today I was at the Browning Gun shop and mom was at the Post office.  They are right across the street from each other and we both had the early shift.  that was fun to come out and see her sitting in front of the Post Office as we waited for guests to arrive.

Getting ready to open the site for visitors today!

It was a very slow morning and we had very few guests come in.  I gave three tours during my shift and mom had two.  We are in the slower part of the month of September and it will pick up a little next month for school tours and then the winter season will begin in full swing. During those quiet winter months, the missionaries still open the various sites,  and Humanitarian projects are the focus until the spring comes.

Mom and I were off at 2:30pm and we came home and had a lite dinner and then our Family Home Evening.  We even got to speak to some of our children and I love those conversations.  I practiced the Editor twice today and I am grateful for mom's help with that script.  If I ever get sick, I think she could easily fill in for me!

Nauvoo post office, Nauvoo, Illinois 

Summary

First post office located in area known as Venus, near west end of present Parley Street, 1830–1834. Name changed to Commerce post office, 11 Oct. 1834. Renamed Nauvoo post office, 21 Apr. 1840, with George W. Robinson appointed postmaster. Robinson operated post office in Lower Stone House and lived there with father-in-law, Sidney Rigdon.  Rigdon appointed postmaster, 24 Feb. 1841. Robinson and Rigdon moved to second house, which became new post office, on corner of Main and Sidney streets, before Mar. 1843. Joseph Smith and others expressed frustration with inappropriate operation of post office, Nov. 1842 and Oct. 1843. Post office later housed briefly in red brick building at corner of Kimball and Main streets, after 1844. Following Saints’ exodus from city, 1846, post office moved to Amos Davis’s store, located on hill just south of temple. 

Nauvoo Post Office restored from 1842

Nauvoo Map of the flats where the Post Office was located