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WONDERFUL, UPLIFTING Sabbath
What a joy it is to be so spiritually fed in our AMAZING Nauvoo Missionary Ward!! The Spirit was SO INCREDIBLY STRONG, and even though I needed to go back to our apartment to pick up my missionary tag, I was still a bit early :)) Peter needed to be at the Visitor's Center by 7:30, which he almost was, and I wasn't really ready with my makeup and hair, but also realized when he went in, that I needed to return back to the apartment to get my name tag. So, at least I was able to make myself more presentable and got to the parking lot by 7:50 a.m.
We had a Beautiful Spirit in our meetings, and had a great treat of being able to hear Elder Wessman play his oboe, with a young performing missionary accompany him as they played "Oh How Lovely Was the Morning." Elder and Sister Wessman will be returning to Utah the first week of June and are as good as they get here!!
I got to meet a Clark cousin who's from Farmington, Melanie Steinhaus (sp?). I think we're third cousins, and she is a descendant of Timothy Baldwin, son of Ezra T. Clark.
The thing I have to remember is to bring a sweater, since the A/C works very VERY well!
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Wonderful WONDERFUL Week at Wilford & Phebe Woodruff Home
Peter and I have been TREMENDOUSLY blessed to have begun this week, Sunday, May 22, afternoon! This home is such a HUGE BLESSING to be able to serve in, where we have learned much and felt the Spirit each and every day we've been here. The Spirit is especially strong as we have born witness to the faith, dedication and commitment of Wilford and Phebe Woodruff to our Savior, Jesus Christ, and the building up of His Kingdom on the earth, wherever and whenever they were asked to serve! They perservered through many trials, afflictions and separations all for "Christ's sake." As we have taken people through the Woodruff home, we have had our testimonies strengthened of the truthfulness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and that through small and simple things, great things come to pass.
An interesting experience for me was when Brother Aaron West brought some sister missionaries into the parlor, who are performing sisters here for just a few months, he had a couple sisters read quotes from a narrative representing Eunice Woodruff Webster, Wilford Woodruff's sister. Prior to the readings, as they were going to act out Eunice Webster, he instructed the sisters to strike out the last sentence of Eunice's script, which mentioned always following the Prophet. That was because of the fact that Eunice and her husband, Dwight Webster, didn't follow the prophet but went down the wrong path of the Strangites. I raised my hand and mentioned that Wilford Woodruff was very upset about that, to which Brother West responded, "I don't know that story." I had remembered listening or reading about that in Saints, Volume 2, Chapter 2. It was especially troubling to Wilford Woodruff that his own sister and brother-in-law were apostatising from the Church, since he had baptized his sister about 10 years earlier, after he served a mission to the Fox Islands, off the coast of Maine.
Suffice it to say, after the sisters and Brother West left, I simply didn't think it was a great idea for Eunice to be portrayed in the Woodruff home at all because of the path she and her husband chose to follow. So, the happy ending to all of this is that Sisters Weed and McCarthy came by Friday morning with the GREAT news that no one will be portraying Eunice Woodruff Webster!! Yeah Yeah Yeah!! Instead, the beautiful young sisters portrayed Phebe Woodruff in a WONDERFUL, SPIRITUAL manner to our guests on this Blessed Friday in the sacred space of the Woodruff home, where we've been privileged to serve!!
Whether or not the choice was made not to portray Eunice Woodruff Webster in the Woodruff home because of my comment to Brother West, I'll never know. However, at the very least, I'm grateful that I made the comment because of not liking the fact that an apostate would be represented in such a sacred, holy place. There are too many wonderful things to be said about Phebe and WIlford's faithfulness to needlessly take up time portraying the less faithfull woman, who Wilford himself was "incensed" with, as Eunice and her husband fell away. What a happy note to begin our day today!!
Yet another very happy, fun and unusual things happened with the beautiful young sisters is that we thought an older man was coming in for a tour, but invited us to pick out a drink from the back of his pickup truck :)) He had driven to the Nauvoo Temple yesterday and before going back to his home in Muscatine, Iowa, wanted us to pick out a soda, Gatorade or other zero sugar drink, which we did! He didn't even want to tell us his name, nor did he want us to thank him, which I did anyway in English and then Spanish. Then Peter thanked him in Swedish. That was a wonderful, unexpected and fun experience for all of us!!
In essence, we've had a VERY VERY Wonderful week in the Woodruff home and I'm looking forward to serving there again sometime soon!!
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WONDERFUL NAUVOO!!
We arrived in Nauvoo on April 18 and have been LOVING each and every day here!! We live on the bluff, on Parley Street, less than a mile from the Gorgeous Nauvoo Temple!! We can easily walk there in 15 minutes and are now finishing up our second week working independently at our second site, the Sylvester Stoddard Tin Smith shop. Last week we really enjoyed working at the Print Shop and John Taylor.
This week has been very hot and humid, but the Tin Smith has excellent air conditioning, which REALLY works GREAT!! We've had people from tour groups and individuals tourists, most of whom are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We've really LOVED giving people information about the Stoddards, how tin was used on the Nauvoo Temple and then a demonstration of how a tin skimming pan was made.
We've recently had a COVID outbreak, with 12 missionaries getting the virus. So, we've tried to be careful and got our second booster on Tuesday evening.
We've met so many wonderful missionaries young and old!! Our preparation day varies every week, and we work every day except our PDay, including from 12-5 each Sunday at a historic site.
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