August 22, 2016 - Monday in Nauvoo

Here we go!  Our last P-day in the mission field.  And how did we spend it?  We got up early this morning and had our morning devotional and prayers.  Then at 5:30am we set out for our 4 mile morning walk around Old Nauvoo.  We got home about 6:45am and got ready for our trip to Quincy to have our car serviced for the 4,500 trip home.  

It is interesting to note that our journey to Nauvoo began in November 2014, and took us from the Provo, Utah, MTC to Laoag, Philippines, back to Rigby, then back to the MTC on February 16, 2015, and then here to Nauvoo where we arrived on February 19, 2015.  The distance we traveled to get here?.... 22,500 miles!  So the 4,500 mile trip home seems like a piece of cake... right?

We had a safe trip to Quincy where the appointment for the car was 10:00am.  It took about 45 minutes and then we shopped at Sam's Club for a few items to carry us through this last week.  We then came home and mom and I had our breakfast for lunch meal since we missed it yesterday.  Mom had some laundry to finish and then we left for the 4:30pm Rendezvous rehearsals that we are helping with.  I am grateful that we can help our Rendezvous director in the transition from new missionaries learning the parts that the old missionaries are vacating.  That has been fun and very interesting for me!

At about 6:00pm tonight we got an email from our Stake President releasing us from our mission effective August 31st.  We will be traveling for about five of six weeks before we get home and he thought that it would be best for us to be released here in the mission field!  There are so many experiences we can't wait to share when we get home!

And then we snapped this picture of the sunset tonight as we were leaving Rendezvous;

It was so much more awe inspiring in person!

After our Rendezvous play I got to return a phone call from one of my grandsons who was just checking up on me and making sure I WAS coming home to rough him up!  Thank you for the call Bobby!  It is so fun to hear from these precious grandchildren!! 

I had some additional pictures that I was hoping to post here, but they are taking forever to download!  We have had a wonderful day and we appreciate you checking in with us tonight!