There and Back Again: Week 25 HOLY WEEK!

Happy Easter! He HAS Risen.

This week we deep cleaned some HUGE houses. These homes are for the pagaent and performing missionaries. Did you know that could be a mission? A six month performing mission where you bare your testimony of Jesus Christ through your talents of Acting, Singing, and Dancing. Hmmmm sounds familiar! LOL These houses are SO big we have to change our tactics. So a day before we deep clean, we send a couple of our team over to do inventory and wipe out cupboards while the rest of the team cleans whatever they are tackling that day. That leaves the forerunners free to help us clean the house when we come in the next day. Some of these places have been a bit neglected due to lack of man power and also we have upped our cleaning games when we split off of the Collections Care department. So we are laser focused on just cleaning. On the way to a job I sometimes HAVE to stop and say, "WOW JESUS! You are amazing and creative and the BEST Artist ever." Look at this tree! I am floored by Spring here.

We had a WONDERFUL Easter Week and for the Week End, one of my old roomates from college came to visit with her husband and one of her sons and spent Friday Night. It was SO fun to catch up. She grew up around here and had great stories to tell about being in the "City of Joseph" Pagaent every summer. It was wonderful. That pagaent no longer exists but more are here now.

Throughout the summer, more than 1,100 missionaries and other volunteers in Historic Nauvoo put on a wide variety of live musical and theatrical performances to celebrate the history and spirit of the early Latter-day Saints who lived in Nauvoo in the 1840s. Many performance elements are based on actual people, records, accounts, and journals of the early Church members and leaders. Performances include the Nauvoo Pageant, the British Pageant, and many smaller vignettes, concerts, and shows. These performances invite visitors to experience the joy, hope, and inspiration that the early Saints found in living Christ’s gospel.

Here's the link to cut and paste if you want to find out more. https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/learn/history/sites/historic-nauvoo?lang=eng

We also got an unexpected opportunity to go to Autumn's in-laws, Mike and Bev McConeghey.

On Saturday we spent the morning with my roomate then drove an hour and 15 min to Mike and Bevs and got to do an egg hunt with Autumn's and Aaron's kids (Emmet and Taran) and eat yummy food and be back that night.

We were singing in the Easter Choir and I was teaching sunday school so we couldn't miss Sunday. Love you all! Praying that you know that because Jesus did HIS mission, you can do YOUR mission. Death has lost it's sting. He is RISEN!