End of January

 Today we are experiencing an ice storm - freezing rain. When I got up at 6 am it was just starting to rain. By 7 it was coming down pretty good and when Buck went out at 7:30 our walk was a skating rink. We got a call that there were no church meetings today and so we are at home trying to find things to do. A perfect time to make a post here. I will add a few pictures -




Geese taking off from the field

 

Joseph's Creek -just below our house

Buck ready for Sunday in the laundry/office/spare roon

HORSES JUST FED AFTER A DAYS WORK

Elder and Sister Christensen at our New Year's Eve Party.
Elder Christensen has ALS and they are going home February 6th. We will miss this great hero.

This was our New Year's Eve Party - there were four groups and our group had a really nice dinner and program. Was lots of fun.

Can you think of a better place to have a supper and program?

 The oxen pulling their stick - getting a new yoke soon - this one is really starting to pinch and they are not impressed. They are growing so fast. I had someone on the wagon ride last week that had been neighbors to the farm where they were born and told us the story of how they came to be donated to Historical Nauvoo.

Getting the wagons and carriages ready for the Exodus Commemoration which will be held on February 2nd - this coming Saturday. The first Saints actually left on the 4th of February. The Exodus continued through September. Just a few days after the 19th of February the river froze solid and many were able to cross on the ice instead of relying on the river barges. Sometimes 300 wagons would be loaded and lined up waiting to cross the river. Between 11000 and 13000 people were part of the Exodus.

 Elder Dahl in the Barn posing for this great picture. Elder Dahl is from Star Valley, Nevada and is a great missionary and friend.

 

 

 

The eagles are here for a few months. Two weeks ago yesterday I went to Carthage and as we drove along the river, we saw about thirty different eagles. They are really magnificent birds.

 

Our District - we had spagetti supper on the 20th and then we had our meeting at our house. Elder and Sister Ward - their third or fourth mission to Nauvoo. Elder and Sister Munhoz from Brazil - she works so hared to learn and express herself in English. Sister Fowers and Sister Moses who mostly work in FM and love and care for the flowers and grounds in Nauvoo. We love all of them

And the best place to end for this entry - the temple - January 2013

 

 

Merry Christmas from Nauvoo 2012

Am going to try to post here and will make it our Christmas wishes to all of our friends and family.

So far this is not going so great - I had visions of making a really great Christmas post!

 

Fabric tree in Family Living Center

 

 Dolls on the tree made from weaving string

 Decorated carriage

In Family Living Center

 

      At the Brickyard

Wilford Woodruff living room

The oxen are growing and ready for Christmas

They don't really like their picture taken

And it is getting dark

But I get to have pictures before we put them away

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We wish all of you a very Merry Christmas. We are hoping for snow but it damp enough to be cold even without snow. We love being on a mission. We love all of you and hope that this Christmas season will bring you love, peace and happiness as you celebrate the giving of the greatest gift ever given - the one perfect gift.

Elder "Buck" and Sister "Martha" Nunn



Sunday - October 28 -

I think I am going to have to visit John and Lily in the Phillipines to learn how to really do a good job on this blog - but Since that is not likely to happen for a very long time, I guess I will just have to try to do the best that I can here.

August 2012 -

Sunset show - Nauvoo Brass Band, Young Performing Missionaries and the Senior Missionaires

 

 

 An 1840's suffergette (sp?)

The pageant came to a close, the young performing missionaries left and quite a few of the senior missionaries went home. The weather cooled down so it seemed that things were a little bit less hectic - but wow - did we miss the energy of all those who had left.

 Pageant is awesome - don't know what the spots are - its not rain and we sure did need it - Didn't get any until Hurricane Issac left the Gulf and spilled some moisture up here. I couldn't believe how a few days of rain changed everything back to green again.

 Now I am having a hard time to upload some more pictures - lets see.....

 summer time teamster group - now there are only 8 and some of those only work 1 day a week.

 

 

More sunset - melodrama

 Elder McGwen- the awesome drummer

Elder Thompson - served with Clay Neilson



Sister Hurren - French horn such a great YPM

The young oxen - Elder Nunn has been training them and they are growning like crazy

Elder Hoopes - such an example - had to return home to treat bone cancer - we hope he will be back

A Barge coming up to draw bridge at Fort Madison where we often go to shop

Our Mission President and Wife

Everyone is involved

 

 See how they have grown


Fall colours - more to come

Becky with one of the teams after the carriage ride - we were so excited to have them come in October. George and Wendy visited us the end of August and John and Lily also came so we have felt very blessed with family visits. Can't wait until more of you can visit

 

Rendezvous Again

Mississippi Wide - in the middle of Lake Cooper at the end of Parley Street

Center of our beautiful Nauvoo

Replica of the wagons and barges the people used as they began their westward trek

On my day at John Taylor's home I picked up lots of Ohio Buckeyes which are a type of chestnuts - you can't eat them. We also do have chestnuts that you can roast, black walnuts, pecans and persimmons. I've learned alot about trees in Nauvoo and they turn so beautiful in the fall.

 

Our next door neighbors tree

The American Queen - a River Paddleboat -a cruise is on my bucket list

Can you believe the colours - the last couple of days have turned much cooler and with a little wind so that many many of the leaves are falling off. I have to admit that I am still excited to see the winter here.

Last night we went to "Bootiful Nauvoo". The missionaries and others carved over 500 pumpkins and lined main street of Nauvoo and then they had a small parade at 6 pm. There are lots of people come and everyone walks up and down the street after the parade and looks at the pumpkins. The missionaries also made kettle korn in a big caldron and passed it out in bags to everyone. It was really fun.

 

Now for the writings without pictures. Nauvoo is an awesome experience. We meet the greatest people who come here everyday and they come from everywhere. I am working three days a week in the Lands and Records office where we research the records of those people who lived in Nauvoo when the Prophet Joseph Smith and then Brigham Young were here. We prepare the files so that people can find where those people lived and also put their records on CD's so that their descendants can take those records home with them. The other two or three days a week I work everywhere else. Recently I have been in the Wilford Woodruff home, the John Taylor home, the Lucy Mack Smith home, The Log School House, narrated on the wagon ride (I love that - even when its cold),esterday at the Brigham Young home andworked with Elder Nunn at the Brickyard. It is the greatest experience to tell the stories of the Saints and to feel of their faith and spirit and my own testimony has grown so much.

The week after General conference, was a Mission presidents seminar here and we had some of the Seventies here to train Mission Presidents. They also spoke to us. It was and is so exciting to know how the Lord's work is going forward in all of the world and to be a part of it.

Elder Nunn drives horses and works in the Blacksmith shop. On Sundays we work together in other places. He loves all that he is doing. He has also learned that he is quite the bass singer and we are singing in the mission choir. We are learning a new part - one of the vignettes in Rendezvous and I can still memorize - just not as well as once I could. We need to do some practicing now so guess I will close this for now.

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