Happy belated Thanksgiving! We had a great week and enjoyed celebrating the holiday with our mission friends (see the picture below). We missed having turkey dinner with our family and are grateful for those who made sure that they were well fed and taken care of! That's one of the blessings of serving a mission, everyone looks after our kids very well!
Our
mission is excited about the upcoming “Light the World” campaign and have been
focusing on Light for the past little while.
We are set apart as missionaries to bring Light to the world and are
dedicating ourselves to doing just that.
During the winter evenings we are going to focus on activities that will
serve the local community of Nauvoo. We want
to strengthen our relationships with the people who live and work here. We want them to know that we love them for
who they are and want to serve them. President
Lusvardi has plans to involve us in more community service, not necessarily
large projects but simple ways that touch hearts.
This
coming Saturday, Dec. 1st, and then again on the 15th, we
will sponsor a “Christmas Walk”. It’s a
mission tradition to light the Christmas tree in the Visitors’ Center, have a
live nativity, Christmas stories, wagon rides, and some refreshments. It will be fun to welcome the community. We are participating in the inter-faith Messiah concert that will be held on Dec. 8th. When I say “we” I mean other
missionaries. I’m not singing in it…I figure
they have to have people in the audience :0) December will be full of activity
and service.
We
invite you to take a look at the “Light the World” website with all kinds of
videos and downloads: https://www.mormon.org/christmas/downloads?lang=eng
Each
week has a different focus: Light the World, Light your Community, Light your Family
and Light your Faith. Find ways that you
and your family can Light the World.
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| Our Thanksgiving dinner party... Us, Elder & Sister Robison, Elder & Sister Thatcher, Elder & Sister Munns and Elder & Sister Pinette. |
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| A visit from our Riverton neighbors - the Sanchez family. It was such a pleasant surprise to see them get out of their car right in front of the John Taylor home! |
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| Sterling Jack, one of Scott's former students with two of his daughters, who just happen to attend Bingham High School. |
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| The sunset at the Smith Family Cemetery. |
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| On Thanksgiving we had the opportunity to serve together at the home of Brigham Young. We love being there and sharing a bit about Brigham Young's life, his dedication to the gospel of Jesus Christ and his testimony of the prophet Joseph Smith. |
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| I love the story of Brigham Young's wife, Mary Ann Angell Young. I think what I love most is her cheerful, determined attitude, even when things were rough and others thought the situation was bleak. She always looked heavenward and her faith never faltered. Emmeline B.Wells said she was "ever cheerful and buoyant". I love that :0) |
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| Nauvoo is beginning to look a lot like Christmas. The historic homes are individually decorated inside and out. Here are the Christmas decorations in Heber C. Kimball's home. |
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| Browning Gun |
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| This is what welcomed us home on Sunday night after our District Meeting. |
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| The running of the horses...this was early last week, before the snow came. |
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