There and Back Again: Week 6

WE LOVE OUR JOBS!!! Elder Cullen is making hundreds, maybe thousands of picket fences to protect young trees from the deer, to put around archeological digs (old basements and foundations), and unsightly other things to make Nauvoo safe and beautiful. He's also repairing an OX cart that got broken from an OX going coo coo. Those guys are STRONG!

Reg says, "The door didn’t close easily so I got to fix it. The Mansion House was the second residence of Emma and Joseph in Nauvoo. It was great to be in this home alone. I was visualizing the Smith family living, working, and entertaining in this home."

I am LOVING my job! I need to take pictures of me doing my job! LOL This is a picture of our rear view mirror on the way to work at 6:50am.. Do you see it's 11 degrees!! Today it was 50 degrees and we went out without jackets! I guess we're acclimatizing. ALSO THIS WEEK we had FOUR performances for Christmas. One on Thursday we had a Caroling in Carthage gig, two on Friday, I had a harmonica performance....OH my! We just started two weeks ago, we were not good, but we were brave. Friday night our Celtic Community choir did an hour performance, then again on Saturday night. Autumn and her boys (Emmet age 7 and Taran age 2) came down Friday to experience the Nauvoo Christmas Walk. There was a wonderfully beautiful and Sacred creation in the Activity center as it was decorated like Jerusalem and as our group walked from "scene" to scene, it would come alive and tell the part of the Nativity and people who saw Christ as a baby or child. It was very cool. The angels are some of my friends from housing where I work. videos and pictures posted below. Having Autumn and the boys here for the weekend was a delightful treat. ALSO, due to the new aquisitions from the Community of Christ.... this week The Collections/Artifacts care department and the Housing Dept separated and we got a NEW boss. Because Housing has never been it's own department we got to work with our new boss to create OUR own way of doing things. It was SO fun to team build, and Sister Barnard and I got to document all of the protocals, procedures, and Inventory lists for each type of housing (Missionary, Guest, Pagaent) We also made a huge list of questions, purchasing needs, and tasks to do. We will NEVER be bored. It was EXTREMELY satisfying to be allowed to work on organization and creating documents so that ANYONE could now start working with us and know what to do. It's all written out. I really really love my job here. I feel My Savior helping me to have energy and strength to do what needs to be done. I spend hours cleaning, DEEP cleaning and organizing and I have joy. That's the fun part. The infamous harmonica performance (we had only been practicing for two weeks! BUT it was a very family like environment..fun and funny) The more professional Celtic Community Choir! I LOVED it. Wish I could post the whole thing

We REALLY loved having the McConegheys here!

My Angel Friends

Just ONE more reason why we love serving here!!