Hallelujah! Mom and I completed our work week and now we have both Saturday and Sunday off to watch conference! It is so important for us to see these sessions and to feel the influence of the Holy Ghost as we see the Church leaders directing the affairs of the Kingdom in these wildly crazy days! We plan on going to the Nauvoo Visitors center and watching the proceedings on the big theater screen tomorrow and Sunday. I am not confident that our internet service will fully function through all the sessions!
We were up early this morning for the monthly mission breakfast. Each month we have these breakfast meetings and watch as various missionaries wind up there service and prepare to head back to their homes. I have included some pictures of this mornings activities here;
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| 19 missionaries heading home this week! |
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| Each group prepares a skit as their last stage performance. |
This can be a very emotional time for those leaving and for those saying good bye! I was thinking how fun it would be to be heading home with them, and seeing those precious family members again! But we are so very grateful that we have the privilege of serving here together. And we will enjoy our time here with so many wonderful missionaries to meet and serve with!
Today, mom had to work the full day in the Riser Boot Shop and I had a split shift of opening, going home for three hours and then coming back to close the Browning Gun Shop. Here are some pictures of mom at the Riser Boot Shop;
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| Let the day begin! |
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| Here are some of the many tools of the shoe trade in the 1840's! |
From Church history, we read;
"With the rapid influx of immigrants eager to build homes, cultivate the soil, set up businesses, or practice their trades, Nauvoo quickly became a bustling and productive community. This was in stark contrast to the rest of Illinois, which was suffering under an economic depression. In Nauvoo there were many small shops and factories: sawmills, several brickyards, a lime kiln, a tool factory, printing offices, flour mills, bakeries, tailor shops, blacksmith shops, shoe shops, a carpenter’s and joiner’s shop, and cabinetmakers’ shops. These shops sprang up everywhere and anywhere in the city, since there were no zoning laws. Nauvoo craftsmen produced matches, leather goods, rope and cord, gloves, bonnets, pottery, jewelry, and watches".
What was interesting about the Riser Boot shop, they did not make left or right shoes! This site is not seen by many of the guests here in Nauvoo, which is rather surprising.... but what a necessary product in this frontier town!
Then tonight, mom and I joined our friends, Elder and Sister Skinner, and did some family sealing's in the temple. We always have a wonderful time working in the temple and this was a great way to prepare for tomorrow's General Conference!
"With the rapid influx of immigrants eager to build homes, cultivate the soil, set up businesses, or practice their trades, Nauvoo quickly became a bustling and productive community. This was in stark contrast to the rest of Illinois, which was suffering under an economic depression. In Nauvoo there were many small shops and factories: sawmills, several brickyards, a lime kiln, a tool factory, printing offices, flour mills, bakeries, tailor shops, blacksmith shops, shoe shops, a carpenter’s and joiner’s shop, and cabinetmakers’ shops. These shops sprang up everywhere and anywhere in the city, since there were no zoning laws. Nauvoo craftsmen produced matches, leather goods, rope and cord, gloves, bonnets, pottery, jewelry, and watches".
What was interesting about the Riser Boot shop, they did not make left or right shoes! This site is not seen by many of the guests here in Nauvoo, which is rather surprising.... but what a necessary product in this frontier town!
Then tonight, mom and I joined our friends, Elder and Sister Skinner, and did some family sealing's in the temple. We always have a wonderful time working in the temple and this was a great way to prepare for tomorrow's General Conference!
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