Nauvoo
week 20 (25 April – 1 May 2016)
We
have gotten a couple of weeks behind. As soon as we returned from our trip to
Springfield and Chicago, we were supposed to be going to Adam Ondi Ahman. Brother Dunn who is doing that tour called us
and said he had to cancel it because of bad weather in Missouri. That was a letdown as we were looking forward
to going, but he has rescheduled it and we will still be able to go.
On
Monday, they called an impromptu pot luck and we also received our new
schedules for now and thru the summer.
We kept the same schedule we had before except they changed us from
Saturday morning to Saturday evening shift.
So we are off on Mondays and have Tuesday and Wednesday evening shifts,
and morning shifts on Thursday and Friday.
We also go two hours earlier than we have been. We are coordinators of the Baptistry on
Tuesday and will be assigned four couples (team) to work with thru the
summer. Wednesday evening we are Initiatory
coordinators. Everyone who has worked
through the summer keeps telling us how busy we will be! We look forward to that. We also look forward to having all of our
family come through those months. They
also gave us instructions for welcoming the new couples who were to arrive on
Thursday and Friday of that week. The
Presidency had prepared fruit baskets for all the new couples and had a little
bit of food to put in their fridge. We
received thirty two new couples who will be here for six months. We had been given two of the couples to host
and help get situated.
Our
two couples are Elder & Sister Gentry from Logan and Elder & Sister
Dalling from Sugar City, Idaho. We had
talked with them on the phone for a couple of times before they came to answer
any questions they might have. They both
arrived on Thursday evening. We helped
them take their belongings into their apartments. They are both wonderful couples, and it was
great to meet them in person.
On
Saturday, our assigned branch (Mount Pleasant) had their ten year anniversary
celebration. They had the rooms set up
with different activities and lunch for all who came. Several of the Nauvoo Site Missionaries had
come and brought some of the various things they do in the activity center in
Nauvoo. They were making ropes, they
brought a loom to show how they made rugs, and they had all kinds of children’s
games from that time period and gingerbread cookies that they bake. It was well attended by the branch people,
but they were hoping for more nonmembers to attend.
Saturday
evening we had a dinner with all of the Temple Missionaries at the Stake
center. They had us all stand up and
introduce ourselves. It will take some
time to learn all of the new couple’s names, thank heavens they all will be
wearing tags like us which will help! We
had a great time and had the opportunity to talk to some of the new couples to
learn more about them.
The
most important thing that happened on April 30th was Ashtyn’s
Birthday. She is 15 now, we can’t
believe it! She will be getting her
learners permit soon so look out when she starts driving! We love her dearly and know that she has a
bright future ahead of her.
On
Sunday, we met with the Site missionaries in their Sacrament meeting at 7:50am. The Site Missionaries then go to the Nauvoo Visitor’s
Center to have their Sunday School and Priesthood and Relief Society
meetings. Tom had been asked to teach
the Sunday School lesson for all the Temple Missionaries and he did a fabulous
job. So many of them came up and
expressed how much they enjoyed it. We
then had a combined Priesthood/Relief Society meeting, where the Nauvoo Stake
President (President Church) talked about the good we could accomplish if we
would serve in other wards and branches throughout the Stake. So they will be assigning the new couples to many
of the wards and branches as we were when we arrived. They will love it, I’m sure.
After
the block the new couples were set apart at various times in the Temple. Then at 2:30 everyone had a lunch at their
home for the new couples that we were hosts of.
Like I mentioned before the Gentry’s and the Dalling’s are great and we
had an enjoyable time getting to know them better.
At
4:30pm we began some training in the Temple, we had the privilege of starting
the training in the Assembly Hall (this requires permission from President
Monson).
Everything
is so beautiful and green here.
Yesterday it got up to 85 degrees!
We love you all and thank you for your love and prayers. Thanks for being so special.
Love,
Mom
& Dad/Nana & Papa/Elder & Sister Shaw
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