Our Days in Old Nauvoo

We seem to have settled into a nice Summer routine. Our schedules come out on Fridays and for the past month ours have been about the same each week. It's a schedule that we like. We are the assistant site leaders for Pioneer Pastimes so we are assigned there 3 days a week. That is really fun. Ron is NRI (Nauvoo Restoration Inc.) one day a week and that means that he is painting things, or fixing things, or sandblasting things, or build things (like a temporary dressing room for the performing missionaries next to the Visitor's Center). Then he has one day a week as a teamster. Usually he does the oxen rides which he really likes and last week he got to drive the wagon with the Nauvoo Brass Band. The horses pull the wagon all through Old Nauvoo and up into Nauvoo. They stop and play a couple of songs at various places. The band kids are wonderful and he had a great time with them. I have 1 or 2 days a week helping Sister Hardy in the kitchen. She prepares a wonderful lunch for the young performing missionaries and their leaders (50 people) Mon-Fri. I love learning from her and it's fun to be with her and the kids. Every couple of weeks I'm assigned a day in the gardens. This is great also. It's fun to visit with and learn from other sisters as we're pulling weeds and making Nauvoo beautiful. On Sundays we're assigned somewhere together. Today we were at the Brickyard.

We are the site leaders for Nauvoo on the Road and so a couple of times a month we head out. Yesterday we went to an event in Quincy, IL. We had 2 other couples with us and 2 young single missionaries. We had a great time and it was a good day.