January 29, 2016 - Friday in Nauvoo

Happy 7th Birthday Maddie! You are such a precious girl and we hope you had a great day today!  We got to talk to our Maddie this morning to wish her a happy birthday and she was looking forward to her birthday party this evening with her cousin girls and girl friends.  We found out that the boys had a nachos and Monopoly party at Bob and Mary's! 

Mom and I were up early this morning.  It was a beautiful morning with no wind.  The temperature was in the high 20's, and it was a very comfortable morning walk for us.  We had our morning prayers and devotional and we were on our walk by 6:15am.  The moon was lighting up our path this morning and it appears that it is getting lighter earlier in the morning.  What a great way to start each day!  

Mom was asked to be a narrator on the wagons for this summer.  She is pretty excited about the prospect and I will get lots of pictures of her in action!  She will tell the stories of Nauvoo and the brief history of many of the historic sites.  She had asked to be considered for this a few months ago.

I served at the Brickyard today and mom served at the Log School House.  They are less than a block from each other so I got to walk her to her site.  I had the Brickyard up and running by the time my companion came in.  The Brickyard is always a busy place to be.  I don't have time to read or do anything else while we are at this site, except to make bricks and give tours!  Today I gave 1 tour to two people... our only visitors!  It has been a pretty quiet month of January, and February will be much of the same!

Mom had a missionary and her husband come into the school house today from our mission, Elder and Sister Orme.  We had shown her the precious blog book that we got yesterday while we worked with her at the Visitors Center.  She is determined to do the same thing!  Only they have 6 weeks left on their mission!  But I was grateful to see them inspired to do something similar to our book during the remainder of their time here.