Another Wednesday mission training meeting today! We were both up and going early this morning. Mom continues to arise at 4:00am and get a jump start on her day. I was up at 5:00am, and this was after we had a late night last night with the Visitors Center focus group meeting...
The mission training meeting centered around the Visitors Centers as our new president is adjusting the influence of our focus here. He has opened up the General Handbook, and the Visitors Center, and Historic sites guidelines, and is teaching us the correct principles. It has been a refreshing course correction.
Our assignments, today, took mom to the John Taylor home and I served in the Brickyard. I was grateful for this quiet day and the opportunity to work at the Brickyard. I spent the first part of the morning making bricks for the grandchildren. All 20 of the bricks have been personalized! Here is an action shot or two;
The mission training meeting centered around the Visitors Centers as our new president is adjusting the influence of our focus here. He has opened up the General Handbook, and the Visitors Center, and Historic sites guidelines, and is teaching us the correct principles. It has been a refreshing course correction.
Our assignments, today, took mom to the John Taylor home and I served in the Brickyard. I was grateful for this quiet day and the opportunity to work at the Brickyard. I spent the first part of the morning making bricks for the grandchildren. All 20 of the bricks have been personalized! Here is an action shot or two;
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| The "Grandpa" Brick-maker! |
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| Putting the finishing touches on some very special bricks! |
The goal for the mission is to have about 20,000 bricks for the summer crowds. Part of the special visitors to Nauvoo this summer will be two of our families, and two families from last year! We are so grateful for the extra efforts that our family members, and our friends, make to come and see us!! And they will have the finest bricks available with their names on them!
I gave one tour of the brick-yard today. It was for two temple missionaries. They were both speaking in Church on Sunday on repentance. The brick making process gave me some ideas for their talks. When the brick maker would prepare the clay, he would make sure the straw and grass and pebbles were removed from the pug mixture. Any foreign object like that would cause the bricks to crack in the drying and firing process. That extra effort to purge these foreign objects gave the final bricks that perfect finish. It was a sweet presentation. I also felt impressed to let them know that I had a testimony that since Joseph Smith was and is a Prophet of God who holds the keys of this last dispensation, that he personally approves all missionaries coming to Nauvoo, including those working in the temple.
In addition to our work today, we got word that we will be moving into our new house around March 1st. The housing coordinator came by the Brickyard to let me know that it is a new rental added to their housing list. It has 2 bedrooms and an office, (for the photo equipment), one bathroom and a good size living-room and kitchen, and a garage!. Perfect for our summer family guests to come and stay with us. We are so anxious to see family members that we have not seen for over a year!
Today marked the one year anniversary of mom and I leaving the MTC and stopping by Amy's house for lunch on the way to Nauvoo. Friday will be our one year anniversary of being here in "The City Beautiful". The last half of our mission here promises to be busy and very exciting!
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