I thought it would be a piece of cake to be able to write on my blog every night. Surely you wouldn’t be so busy on a “Senior” mission that I wouldn’t have any free time. Richard fed me a line, there seems to be no free time, I am meeting myself coming and going. Yesterday, I changed my clothes no less than four times. I know the neighbors think we are totally crazy. Rush, in looking one way and rushing out looking another. Saturday I got up and went over to Jann and Jill’s and we did some crafts. I taught them how to make the necklaces, and then we moved on to the scarves.
I have to mention how blessed I am to be able to call these two wonderful women, my mostly life long friends. I first met them when I moved to Kansas City as a little country bumpkin. Their family was so good to mine. I have been blessed to keep in touch with them all of these years and periodically we get to see each other. Jann came to be with Jill for their birthdays. They are twins by the way. I was blessed enough to help them celebrate. They treat me like a pseudo sister and I am grateful. Ran home and cleaned my house baked some cookies, and then met them at the temple at 4 o"’clock. We went through a session at the temple and then President Condie let Kyle take us all through the temple. We even climbed past the bell tower, into the clock tower, and up to touch the bolts that the Angel Moroni is hooked on with. We could see all over the Mississippi River and it was beautiful. Nauvoo really is a peninsula, so, so pretty. Too bad we weren’t allowed to take our camera. They even have false bird distress calls that play up there so the other birds won’t build nests.
From there we went to Fort Madison to the Tri-State Rodeo!!! I love rodeos! I can’t believe how many people were there. It was really quite good and so much fun. But let me tell you, walking into a crowd of thousands being the only four people with a missionary badge on and dresses (with no bling I might add) is a little bit uncomfortable. Needless to say, our section wasn’t too rowdy. We did the wave and it went around the stadium 10 times with everyone standing up. The announcer said that was a record.
Dropped the American flag in………………………………………………………..
Large and in charge cowboys. (Did I mention I LOVE COWBOYS?) Their relatives probably ran the Mormons out, but Oh, Well………………
Bucking broncs…and yes, that blur right above the horse is a cowboy that didn’t make it and is about to land on his head!
Bull riders………………………crazy……………………………………………
Mutton bustin’ won by a four year old…………………my favorite…………
Barrel racing………………………………………………………………….
and BEER everywhere. I’m starting to feel like I lead a sheltered life.
On the way home, the bridge had been opened for a barge coming down the Mississippi River. It is the largest swing bridge in the United States A huge barge was coming through and I tried to get a picture. It was so interesting but it didn’t show up very well.
Then on Sunday we had church and we leave by 7:30 and went to Sacrament, then on to Relief Society. From there we served in the Seventies Hall and I think Richard really enjoyed it. We ran home and got dressed and went to Jill’s to eat supper, then ran on to the fireside put on by President and Sister Condie. She was a young girl in Germany during the 2nd World War. Her experiences were amazing and then he has been in church service for years. He was talking about Gordon and Margie, Frances Monson, etc. Quite the people, so many around here with so much service and experience. I worked today at Brigham Young and had 9 tours which is really good for this time of year. I had several non-members and they were all kind and interested. They are not sure what brings them to Nauvoo and then the members were great as well. We are on our way to Rendezvous. I guess we got an assignment to teach RS and Priesthood on the 28th of October. Lesson is on Charity, start praying………………
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