Happy Spring

• We had an enjoyable visit with some family members this last week.
• Elder Jaster drove to Carthage and brought the metal fence around the Jail back to Nauvoo and painted it. It is a tedious job. One of his greatest fears came true that the equipment he would operate might be a paintbrush, ha!
• It was a wonderful opportunity to actually be in the Red Brick Store on the 168^th anniversary of the organization of the Relief Society. Our mission sisters did the reenactment of the first Relief Society.
• Elder Jeffrey R. Holland from the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and his wife visited with us. He told us that because of the tears of faith, the silent yearnings of the heart, devotion, patience, humility, righteousness and faithfulness that Mercy will trump Justice.
• I worked in the greenhouse this week transplanting seedlings. Our sweet granddaughter had her poem “Little Flowers” published in the March issue of The Friend. Congratulations, Boston! We’re so proud of you. We’re going to hang your poem up in the greenhouse here in Nauvoo so all those little seedlings will know what they have to do to grow.

Little Flowers

Hey little flowers,
Hey little flowers,
Just start growing.
There is nothing to be afraid of.
The sun is shining,
The water is coming,
Soon you will grow
Into a beautiful flower.

Boston G., age 8, Utah

Nauvoo Notes: “Apparently it is necessary for us on occasion to be brought to a white-knuckles point of anxiety so as to be reminded, when rescued, of who our Rescuer is. Neal A. Maxwell

Loving Our Mission

March 10, 2010

The Church is True

• Picture of a wonderful missionary sister I had the opportunity to work with who has 15 children.
• Elder Jaster and I worked at the Blacksmith shop together. He gave his first tour and I made my first horseshoe.
• The brilliant stars against the night sky here are really something – More than even beautiful!
• Went to our first Farewell Breakfast to bid departing missionaries goodbye. So sad.
• Had time to put a turkey in the oven but no time to eat it. Grabbed a leg and ran. Have an idea of how our kids felt when we got after them for having bad manners.
• Often see semi trucks loaded with corn going to the grain elevators nearby. It’s loaded onto barges and taken down the Mississippi to New Orleans and shipped overseas. The Mississippi is beginning to thaw.
• Elder Hinckley and his wife visited. He said there are 3,900 senior missionaries and the church has call for 6,500. They are 2,600 short. He said, “We so desperately need more couples.”
• Elder Hinckley said his father, President Hinckley, had a sign that said, “DOn’t quIT.”