tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548047190213372212024-03-14T06:17:52.085-07:00What's Nauvoo?Amy Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10475701177816461147noreply@blogger.comBlogger92125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854804719021337221.post-12559315731774752642015-10-11T21:40:00.001-07:002015-10-11T21:40:11.983-07:00Highlights from Nauvoo<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Following is a synopsis of our mission in Nauvoo as reported in sacrament meeting on October 11, 2015.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">I’ve been
asked to speak to you on </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">inspiring and
faith promoting experiences</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> that we had while serving a mission for the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I could go on and on with that
topic but for your sake I’ve selected five examples.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">As I speak,
I invite you to ask yourselves, “What
lack I yet?” What one thing does the Savior want you to change to help you
in your life long quest of preparing to meet God? You may be inspired by something I say, or simply by random
thoughts that come to you which (if they draw you closer to Christ) are the
soft sweet </span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">whisperings</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> of the Holy Ghost.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">The first experience I want to share
with you is evidence of just how directly we can receive revelation and
guidance from the Holy Ghost. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">During the
pageant season in Nauvoo, there are a number of detractors who plague the community with their outward objection to
something. I never really figured them out--why they want to bother us, but
they are there every year, and we do our best to keep them from antagonizing
the guests.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Anyway, the
first summer we were in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Carthage</st1:city></st1:place>,
I had an angry soul come on one of
my tours. He was harmless until while in the debtor’s cell I began telling the
events surrounding Joseph and Hyrum Smith’s martyrdom. When using Joseph’s name
for the first time, I heard him scoff loudly. Assuming I had misspoken in some way, I looked at the man to
address what was wrong. As I did, the Spirit withdrew and my mind went completely
blank. All I could do was silently pray and ask for assistance and knowledge on
how to respond. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">I received
an answer immediately with distinct instructions…"don’t look at him". The delay was only a few seconds and I obediently
proceeded first talking to one side of the room, skipping over the angry guy
and addressing the group on the other side of the room. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">However, with
every sentence that I said after
that, I heard a loud obnoxious groan. Fortunately, I was blessed to be able
to completely ignore his annoying sounds. The man left before I was finished so
the other guests were able to hear my final summation and testimony without his
commentary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;"> Through this experience, I learned that there
is both good and evil in the world,
and the Lord will not abandon us when we’re doing His work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
second experience I’m going to relate stood in stark contrast to the first. Again while serving in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Carthage</st1:place></st1:city>,
an older gentleman came to visit the jail. He looked down trodden even broken
from the onset. In talking to him, I learned that he was born and raised in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Carthage</st1:place></st1:city>, and this was
his first visit to the jail. That’s all I knew about him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Elder
Johnson and I were giving the tour together this time, and it gave me time to
observe his reaction to the information. I had a feeling that I should bear testimony of Christ and the
power of the atonement. As I did, I noticed him in the corner literally sobbing.
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">I didn’t
know this man, I hadn’t served him long or even individually, but I felt deep
love and abiding respect for him. I saw this man through God’s eyes and I loved
him. I understood that Heavenly Father
loved him too and that he needed to know that through the atonement of
Christ, he could be forgiven of whatever plagued him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">I also
realized how much all of us are loved even the angry mob that took Joseph’s
life. The atonement is for everyone and it is the healer of all wounds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Third, in
our last interview with our mission president, President Gibbons, asked us what we learned that surprised us or that
we were not expecting. So that’s
what I want to tell you about next.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">When first
called to Nauvoo, I was excited to learn
more about Joseph Smith. In fact, many historians call Nauvoo, Joseph’s
city, Joseph’s temple, Joseph and Hyrum’s final resting place. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Our first
assignment was to serve in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Carthage</st1:place></st1:city> as I
mentioned earlier. This is where the old historic jail still exists and where Joseph
was killed. For months, we studied everything
we could get our hands on concerning the events that led to their deaths and
the aftermath. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Everyday we
related this information to guests. Every day we bore testimony that Joseph was
a prophet of God because over and over we felt the Spirit confirm that fact.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
surprising part was that through it all,
I came out feeling the love of who? ...not Joseph Smith but Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">The story
goes on…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">...After four
months in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Carthage</st1:city></st1:place>
we were asked to serve in Nauvoo.
There are about twenty- five different sites there each with different stories
to tell. As I read and studied the material to present, again I was enthralled
with the opportunity to come to know these great people who were willing to
sacrifice their lives and homes for the gospel’s sake. <span style="background: lime; mso-highlight: lime;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">It was
inspiring to think of their faith and
sacrifice and wonder if I could follow their legacy if the need arose.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Again,
however as I studied and pondered the circumstances and stories of these great
people, I came away feeling ….<b>the Savior’s
love</b>… and the undeniable fact that the Savior lives and loves each of us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">In essence,
I came to understand that the reason
for the shift is that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is not
Joseph’s church nor is it any other man or woman’s church regardless of the sacrifices they made for it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">It belongs to the Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">. He
is the chief corner stone. It is His
priesthood and His Church that have been restored upon the earth. He
personally directs the affairs of this church through apostles and prophets
starting with Joseph Smith and it continues today through President Monson.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Therefore, no
matter where missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
are asked to serve, it is the Savior, Jesus
Christ, who they will ultimately come away knowing and having a stronger
love and testimony of as they embark in His service.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Fourth, while
working as a Nauvoo Site missionary, we had to learn to collaborate. With hundreds of thousands of guests each year, it took
teamwork and cooperation to help so many people have a good experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">President
Uchtdorf gave an excellent example of how to do this in conference a few years
ago. (See <a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2008/10/lift-where-you-stand?lang=eng">Lift Where You Stand</a>) He compared cooperation to the lifting
of a grand piano. The most effective way he said, is for many people to
stand close together and lift. It doesn’t really matter who stands where but
they need to do their part and all do it at the same time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
adversary uses derision to block our
ability to work effectively together, and we have a t<span style="color: #222222;">endency
to, among other things be clumsy in our relationships with others even gossipy,
selfish, and judgmental.</span> So it is
important that we fight those tendencies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">In <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/38?lang=eng">D&C 38:27</a> Christ says, “If ye are not one, ye are not mine.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">One missionary in Nauvoo had three simple rules:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Don’t let yourself be offended –just refuse to
pick it up, don’t judge others unkindly since you really don’t know all the
circumstances anyway, and be forgiving--in your mind and also in your heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">When I find myself needing an attitude
adjustment, it helps me to remember another of <a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2012/04/the-merciful-obtain-mercy?lang=eng&query=stop+it">President Uchtdorf’s talk</a> not to judge others for sinning differently
than you do. Maybe, you would never do what so and so did, but you are
certainly doing other less than perfect things that so and so would never do. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">When we are judgmental, we block the Holy
Ghost from being able to communicate with us. When we see others through God’s
eyes, we invite the Holy Ghost to be with us and guide our thoughts and actions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">I exhort you to catch yourselves when you are feeling critical of others and just…….stop it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Have you heard of the <a href="http://www.duq.edu/about/centers-and-institutes/center-for-teaching-excellence/teaching-and-learning/pygmalion">Pygmalion Effect</a>? The Pygmalion Effect was discovered in the
1950's when an experiment was done. Teachers of youth were told that certain
children were brilliant. Truth was, these children were chosen randomly, but
the result was after years of teaching the selected children outperformed the
other students in response to their teacher's optimistic view of their
potential.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Thus we see that if we treat others
as if they are already the people they can become, we can all be more
successful. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Choose to see the best in others. Treat them
as they may become and not how they currently are. Find their strengths and
focus on those. Love, nurture, empower and then you'll be one with them and the
Savior will claim you and be at your side. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Fifth and last, I’m going to talk about some
of our trials. However before I do, you
have to know how much fun we had. Our mission was a great opportunity to
develop our talents and skills which included giving presentations to both large
and small groups, singing, performing, and playing the piano. All of our prior
skills were enhanced as a missionary. A fun side of both of us came out that we
didn’t even know we had. While being relaxed and serving others, we could put
away the worries of the world and just enjoy the guests. I could tell from
another room when Brother Johnson was giving a tour because I heard laughter. Guests
told me often how they enjoyed his tours. Life was very different, not mundane
but full of variety and adventure, and everything we did had purpose and felt
productive. As a side benefit, we met many wonderful missionaries that will
most likely be lifelong friends.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Now that
you know that, I can say that It was <b>not always
easy and fun</b>. While in Nauvoo, we had to be okay with many things that we were
not used to like being told where to live, when to move, what furniture and
supplies we can borrow and what we couldn’t, what sites to work at on what days
and what hours, what meetings to attend, and how to assist at those meetings. Basically,
our time was not our own. All responsibilities were considered mandatory. As
missionaries, we joked that the only exceptions might be eating and sleeping. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Time and
time again as we chose to be obedient
and not let the circumstances bother us, our hearts were softened and we
felt surprisingly comfortable with the demands. For example, for the evening show
Rendezvous in Old Nauvoo, we were asked to take the roll of George and Agatha—the hen pecked
husband and the lady with no filter on her brain—the one role I hoped I’d never
have to perform. Fortunately, the Lord qualifies those who he calls and as we
put our hearts into the rolls, we found a new way to make it fun and rewarding.
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Some of our
trials we describe as the refiner’s fire. As we were asked to do things that
we’d never done before there was of course a learning curve. Sometimes we
excelled and other times not so much.
It’s never fun to have your weaknesses exposed, but it was and still is
a necessary part of the process.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;"> Whether it’s trying to develop our talents,
communication skills, or interpersonal relationships, we must first see our
short comings from someone else’s perspective before we can take measures for
improvement. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">There is a
scripture in the Book of Mormon found in <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/ether/12?lang=eng">Ether12:27</a> that sums up the solution: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>give<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>unto
men weakness that they may be humble; and my<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>grace<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is sufficient for all men that<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>humble themselves before me; for if
they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>weak things become strong unto them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Even
though it was painful, I am grateful for the opportunity to learn that in our extreme
humility the Lord is always there to comfort and strengthen us and give us
motivation to hang in there.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Ultimately,
we loved being a tool in the Lord’s hand
which happened as we got out of our comfort zone, and willing did what we were
asked to do … say what we were inspired to say—and have a good attitude about
it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">We
sometimes reminded ourselves that anything we were asked to do was far easier than what was required of the
early saints in Nauvoo. That thought became a great motivator.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Being rooted in the gospel of Christ is a life long
process. We can never retire from it. I will be eternally grateful for my
experience as a full time missionary. I shudder to think how close we came to
not going at all or cutting our mission short. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">I, like
most of you like to see the end from the
beginning. This time, we had to trust the Lord that things would work out
as we left our business and home in the hands of others not knowing for sure
how it would work out. There were trials along the way, but the Lord inspired
and directed us and others and the
holes that opened up in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Arvada</st1:place></st1:city>
were consistently filled. But, we had to trust the Lord and His time table. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">What
wonderful lessons to learn in 18 short months. How else could we have learned
these principles so quickly and so thoroughly?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">I stand
before you today a different person than
I was 18 months ago being filled with the knowledge that God lives. His son,
Jesus Christ, is our advocate with the Father. Christ is the light, the life,
and the hope of the world. His way is the path that leads to happiness in this
life and eternal life in the world to come. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">He has indeed
removed the sting of death. The
atonement is real and powerful enough to bring us back into Heavenly Father’s
presence if we will simply choose His path for we are loved by Diety more than
any of us are capable of or can imagine. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">I went on a
mission hoping to bring the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ to others, and
the greatest good I accomplished was
in strengthening my own testimony. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">I invite
you to think about my initial invitation to you and consider what you have been inspired to do
differently and then…act on it. Allow the Spirit of God to work within you
and move you to a closer relationship with Him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Amy Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10475701177816461147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854804719021337221.post-16599933345067149772015-10-04T20:42:00.003-07:002015-10-05T02:25:28.267-07:00Young Sister Missionaries, Happy Birthday, Farewell Nauvoo, Winter Quarters, and Home<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
We had the young sister missionaries and the Udalls over for one last dinner.</div>
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It was Elder Johnson's, Elder Udall's, and Sister Schenk's Birthday.</div>
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Goodbye little house.</div>
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Motivation for leaving was a desire to reunite with family and friends.</div>
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Love the face, Zoey.</div>
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Mia is so grown up. She's off to kindergarten already.</div>
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Last week I told you a bit about Council Bluff or Kanesville as the Mormon's called it. Now I'll tell you about a place called Winter Quarters which is located west across the Missouri River from Council Bluff.</div>
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Council Bluff was a holding area while the Mormons ferried across the Missouri River to Winter Quarters. Ferrying large rivers in the 1840's was a big deal that took valuable time. The pioneers wanted to head for the Great Salt Lake early spring and needed to have the river crossing behind them. The main problem with crossing the Missouri River was that land outside Iowa Territory was occupied by the Native Americans.</div>
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Brigham Young plead with the Federal Government for assistance. This time, the Feds helped to negotiate with the Indians and granted the LDS pioneers use of the land named Winter Quarters for a two year period.</div>
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A temporary but large community emerged quickly. (It grew to about 4,000 population in 1846 with 800 cabins, huts, and cabins with about 3,000 people who stayed in Kanesville east across the river.) As one group of saints left, another moved in to take their place. Many of the journals comment on the horrible conditions in Winter Quarters. Their weakened and exposed condition made many vulnerable to scurvy and many other diseases born of malnutrition. The disease infested the community giving the pioneers added incentive to move further west quickly.</div>
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By 1848 the Mormons relinquished Winter Quarters as agreed and the saints who had been asked to stay behind to help with the migration moved east to Kanesville. At that time, 350 houses and 3,000 people lived in Kanesville. By 1852 there were 5,000 residents. It became a springboard for migrants.<br />
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For more detailed information see <a href="https://www.lds.org/ensign/1997/09/winter-quarters-church-headquarters-18461848?lang=eng">Winter Quarters Church Headquarters</a><br />
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For protection against the Indians, the wagons were pulled into large circles. Brigham Young stressed the importance of treating the Indians kindly. The Mormons had relatively few problems with them.</div>
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Next to the Winter Quarter Visitor Center is a cemetery full of pioneers who died here. At least 1,000 died in the camps between 1846-1848. Brigham Young said, "God would have a tested people, but they would be redeemed in the fire of their wilderness afflictions."</div>
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Below is the Winter Quarter's Temple. It was closed for cleaning on our trip home so we were unable to attend it. Isn't it beautiful?</div>
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<span style="color: red;">These early pioneers pulled together for the temporal preservation of all. The interest of the whole prevailed over the interest of the individual. I invite you to unite with your family and friends. If we are not one, we are not Christ's. (See <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/38.27?lang=eng#26">D&C 38:27</a>) We, if are not Christ's, have not charity. (See <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/26.30?lang=eng#29">2 Nephi 26:30</a> and <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/1-jn/5.2?lang=eng#1">1 John 5:2</a> and <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/1-jn/4.7?lang=eng#6">1 John 4:7</a>) If we have not charity, we are nothing. (See <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.46?lang=eng#45">Moroni 7:46</a>)</span>Amy Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10475701177816461147noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854804719021337221.post-15225698427022022022015-09-28T18:31:00.000-07:002015-09-28T18:53:51.301-07:00Counsel Bluffs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
After a short visit to Chicago and getting a "grandkid fix" we headed west following the saints in 1846.</div>
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Remember, I told you about the muddy spring of 1846 that slowed the saints drastically? Initially, the Mormons were hopeful of getting to their far west destination by the fall of that same year. However, it took four months just to get across Iowa. (In case you were wondering, Iowa was a territory until December of 1846 so it was considered outside of the United States at that time)<br />
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When the first Mormons arrived at Counsel Bluff in June which is about 327 miles from Nauvoo, it was obvious that they would not be able to travel the last thousand miles before winter. Lewis and Clark originally named the place since it was here that negotiations with native Americans over land acquisition were discussed on the bluff. The Mormons named the place Kanesville but would only last for a few years since they eventually left the city and migrated to the Great Salt Lake Basin.<br />
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Crops were planted all along the trail as well as crude housing built and left for the travelers that would follow. The logistics of getting people, wagons, animals, and supplies across rivers were slow and tedious. The Mormons set up four more ferries to accommodate the travels. Originally, there were only two ferries and the owners charged outrageous prices. About four thousand pioneers spent the winter across the Missouri River from Counsel Bluffs which made the trip to the Salt Lake Valley the following April more practical.<br />
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It was here in Council Bluffs that Brigham Young returned to in December of 1847. All of the apostles met him here and sustained him as President and Prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Brigham led the church as President of the Quorum of Twelve not as Prophet for three and a half years after June 27, 1844 when Joseph died.<br />
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Families suffered and many died in their sacrifice.<br />
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Originally, Counsel Bluffs was only a stopping spot for thousands of wagons. Cabins were built across the river in Winter Quarters but not here. The white spots in the background are wagons (not sheep if you were wondering).<br />
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Later, a community emerged, but all temporary for others to use at a later time.<br />
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In December of 1847, Brigham needed to be sustained as Prophet and President of the church as I mentioned above. There was not a building large enough to gather all the members who wanted to attend so 200 men worked for 18 days and erected a log cabin made of Cottonwood trees. We were told that Cottonwood trees are really good for two things...burning and nothing else. The cabin held about 1,000 people for the event but obviously didn't last long after that.<br />
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The tabernacle was reconstructed in this century. I forgot the date. It is similar to the original but not at the same location exactly. The missionaries serving here showed us where the original one was just across the street in the parking lot of a near-by church.<br />
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Check out the expression on Brigham Young's face below who is represented by the guy in the middle. Don't you think the caption ought to be, "Brigham, why not ask for directions?"<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Invitation:</span><br />
<span style="color: red;">How much are you willing to sacrifice for the gospel of Jesus Christ? Life goes so amazingly fast. It's true that the older you get, the faster it seems to go. I invite you to look at your priorities and adjust your decisions to bring you happiness in this life and eternal life in the next. That time will be here before you know it.</span><br />
<br />Amy Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10475701177816461147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854804719021337221.post-6011624556978335032015-09-21T05:39:00.000-07:002015-09-21T06:37:21.154-07:00Nauvoo after the Mormon's, Sisters take the title, Dinner with President Gibbons, and The Historic Post office<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Have you ever wondered what happened to our little town after 1846 when the Mormons left Nauvoo? We took a tour given by the Nauvoo Chamber of Commerce. </div>
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I know, I know...it's a bit late since we're leaving soon, but we took it none-the-less. </div>
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The reader boards below are displayed in the Nauvoo town square.</div>
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You may have heard that Nauvoo was the wine capital for a number of years. </div>
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In fact, in 1860, Nauvoo claimed to have 425,000 grape plants. </div>
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Would you have wanted to be given the job of grape plant counter? Me either.</div>
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Just so you know, the women have been beating the men at Canasta whenever the Udalls and Johnsons have a minute of diversion. You can't see the score below, and I can't remember what it was, but rest assured we beat them soundly...again.</div>
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It is traditional that when missionaries have reached their expiration date as I call it and head home, the Mission President's wife cooks a fine meal for them before they go. It was delicious. </div>
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It's a pretty large group leaving don't you think?</div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Historic Post Office</span><br />
<span style="color: red;">I was in the historic post office on Friday. I haven't served there much obviously because the morning was filled with a comedy of errors. First, while dusting the chandeliers, my duster melted to one of the chandelier light bulbs. When do bulbs the size of Christmas tree lights give off enough heat to melt the duster?</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"> Sisters Anderson and Wood came to my rescue. But the problems didn't end there...</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">The sisters went back to the John Taylor home. Sister Brinley, my companion for the day, and I were outside socializing. I shut the door to keep the air conditioner from coming on too much. That sounds innocent enough don't you think? Well, the post office has one of those weird door knobs that has to be unlocked while the door is open. If one neglects to force the dead bolt open before shutting the door, then you are stuck inside.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"> You either need the key which is outside as shown in the picture above. Or you need a special gold key that is inside every building...somewhere. I had to wait for Sister Brinley to return to her <u>post</u> (no pun intended...well maybe it was) and instruct me where the gold key was located.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Sister Brinley and I talked up a storm as we were at this site from 9-5 with only a few tours to give.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"> I don't think I've reported on the post office before. See below for the cost of postage. Keep in mind that a skilled man's wage those days was about a dollar a day. Ouch, if you have many letters to send.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"> Since the cost was so high, it was common to use cross writing when sending a letter. Cross writing is show below. First, the page was filled with writing on one side of the paper from top to bottom. Then the page was turned sideways and filled again on top of the original writing. Sometimes, the page was turned diagonal and filled a third time. A blank sheet of paper held under the words to be read was helpful but not a cure-all. For this and many more reasons, I feel happy to live in my generation. Yea for the internet!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">In the 1840's they still used wax and a stamp to seal the letters.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">The picture below shows a mail bag used for transporting the Federally owned property.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"> A typical post office was often located in a corner of a home or business with cub-be holes like you see below. If mail wasn't picked up (and because mail could be sent COD, this was a regular occurrence) unclaimed mail would be sent to Washington DC and eventually destroyed. Is it just me or does that make you twitch to know all those stories and real life events were destroyed?</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">In reading through the notes I've taken the past 18 months, I came across a few quotes that stood out. Some of them are paraphrased below. I invite you to scan through for something that might be of benefit to you, and then of course act on it. Gems of advice aren't much good if you don't do something about it.</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: blue;">We lose out on opportunities for growth because we do not listen to the Holy Ghost. We need to relinquish our will in favor of the Lord's will. In <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/28?lang=eng">2 Nephi 28:30</a> it says we learn line upon line until we have learned great wisdom. After we accept revelation, we are given more. When we receive revelation we should thank God for His trust in us.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue;">President Hinckley said, "Life is to be enjoyed not just endured. Things aren't as bad as you think. It will all work out." </span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue;">Concerning the fads in the world--some of them are harmless. Some of them can start us on a path to destruction. To know the difference, listen to and obey the prophets.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue;">Never let a problem to be solved be more important than a person to be loved.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue;">We will all suffer pain but it is our choice whether we continue to suffer or not.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue;">There's no sense in saying that you trust Christ if you don't take His advice.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue;">There is no agency(choice), without some risk.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue;">Brigham Young said that we can build a kingdom faster than the adversary can tear it down because the foundation has been laid.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue;">Sweet feelings of love in our heart are often companions to adversity.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue;">No one can be lying, stealing, or involved in sexual sin and feel the Holy Ghost.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue;">Salvation is not a cheap experience. We must all step into Gethsemane a little and experience sin and opposition to be saved.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue;">As we come to know Christ as opposed to knowing <u>about </u>Christ, we feel and have confidence and trust in His love.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue;">Be of good cheer both in good times and bad.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue;">Why would Joseph Smith lie about seeing a vision when all he received for it was persecution and eventually death?</span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue;">Many churches help men be better. Many teach love, peace, patience, service and forgiveness. No other church except the LDS teaches principles and temple covenants that save men in a celestial state with husbands and wives together linked to their family.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue;">No sacrifice is too great for the blessings of an eternal marriage.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue;">Be humble, faithful, and good then you can have the Holy Ghost with you. Learn what the Holy Ghost feels like to you--it varies between individuals. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue;">You can't teach others what you don't know yourself.</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: blue;">Should a woman have a baby after 35? No, 35 children is enough.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue;">Having a memory is really overrated. You don't have to have a memory to become one.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue;">Not to spoil the ending, but everything is going to be okay.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue;">There has not been one case in the history of mankind when a husband has been shot while doing the dishes.</span></li>
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Amy Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10475701177816461147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854804719021337221.post-87752211161457594052015-09-13T16:22:00.001-07:002015-09-13T19:30:54.311-07:00Homecoming on October 11, 2015, In our last few weeks, we are revisiting some "lasts"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">You are all invited to 6490 Quail St. in Arvada, Colorado on October 11th 11 AM to here us report on our mission in Nauvoo. We'ld love to have you join us.</span></div>
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One more get together with the group that came with us to Nauvoo.</div>
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A gathering of all the sister missionaries both young and not so young to honor the young sister missionaries who will be leaving in a couple of weeks. Remember, they are called to another mission in the United States for six months. That way they spend two summers in Nauvoo to help accommodate all the guests but aren't bored stiff during the quiet Nauvoo winters.</div>
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A close up to demonstrate that I was there.</div>
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One more trip to Amish country. I finally got a picture of the sign warning drivers to share the road with Amish buggies...</div>
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...as well as the tail end of a buggy. Amish people don't like their picture taken so it's been tricky getting the right shot.</div>
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Another rodeo. At least I don't have to say it's my first rodeo. :)</div>
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We finally made time to visit across the river from Nauvoo at a place called Montrose where the Mormon pioneers retreated to after leaving Nauvoo for a few weeks in 1846.</div>
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Methodist, Mike Foley, whose family date back to this area for several generations has been studying archaeological evidence as to where the Mormon pioneer settlements and trails were. He uses divining rods to get his bearings and determine where to look. From what I understand, these metal rods react to empty space made by wagon trains differently than non-compacted terrain. Your body becomes polarized and acts as a magnet in some way. I've probably said that all wrong but hopefully, you got the idea. When I first tried using the divining rods, my body responded oddly causing the rods to swing away from each other rather than crossing each other. I suppose I've always been known as a little off. :)</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">He also uses diaries, letters, and journals of early settlers to gather clues. Below is a shot of the temple that is on the last bluff before the pioneers headed west and left the temple behind for the duration of their lives. The temple you see is the same size and location as the original one, so this would be the view that many writings described.</span></div>
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We also went to a cemetery that Mike thinks is on the outskirts of a place that Joseph Smith had originally named Zarahemla after a city in the Book of Mormon. This town would have been established in the early 1840's and then abandoned in 1846, when Nauvoo was abandoned.</div>
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It was a beautiful, quiet, little place.</div>
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Pioneer Pastimes is about to close down except for weekends. There were some Canadian geese making themselves at home yesterday when we went to set up.</div>
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I guess I'm not as imposing as I thought. My attempts to scare them into the air for a better picture failed miserably and they mostly ignored me.</div>
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We also took a tour through Carthage Jail today. The experiences we relate in Carthage will remain with us forever I think. It was like we never left.</div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Invitation:</span><br />
<span style="color: red;">Today after our church meetings, we watched a film entitled Remembering Nauvoo. We'd seen it a few times last summer, but wanted to see it one more time. With it, we saw the short clip <a href="https://www.mormon.org/easter">Because He Lives</a>. I invite you to watch it yourself. All of what we do is really for one purpose alone...to spread the good news of Jesus Christ. Do you want the good news to bring you happiness in this life, and eternal life in the world to come? Come and learn for yourself.</span><br />
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Amy Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10475701177816461147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854804719021337221.post-32285870962251654882015-09-06T19:15:00.000-07:002015-09-07T02:54:51.784-07:00Bugs, Beautiful Nauvoo Summer, Farewell Breakfast for us this time, Grape Stomp, Dinner at the Stone House<span style="color: red;">Invitation:</span><br />
<span style="color: red;">When we reach out to communicate with God, it's called prayer.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;">When Father in Heaven reaches out to communicate with us, it's called inspiration or revelation.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Check this out. <a href="https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2012-01-012-patterns-of-light-spirit-of-revelation?lang=eng">Patterns of Light</a> </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Will you think about this for a minute? Many churches teach religion, but in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, restored truths are taught. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">What is our loving heavenly father trying to communicate to you? What changes does your He want you to make to bring you closer to Him? Will you strive to make those changes now?</span><br />
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Every time we work in Pioneer Pastimes we spend a half hour or so sweeping away spider webs and bugs from the play area. Check out the praying mantis below. They grow them big here.</div>
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The web on our rear view mirror below appeared after just a couple of hours this week and reminded me of another time of horror for all arachnophobes. We were in a hurry as usual and after hastily climbing in the car, I rolled down my window in order to see better. Well, to my terror, I noticed too late why the window was hard to see through. There was a spider web that filled the whole opening where my window had been. Determining what size spider was needed to create such a web, I quickly rolled up the window and moved a little closer to Elder Johnson. Yuck...my skin is crawling in remembrance.<br />
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Now that Nauvoo has slowed down and we're considering the fact that we'll be heading home way too soon, we're taking notice once again of the beautiful surroundings.<br />
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Most unforgettable to me will be the Nauvoo temple quietly looming behind almost every site.<br />
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Our farewell breakfast this month included 42 missionaries. It's the biggest group I've witnessed and it's a bit sad that we are numbered in that count. We've never seen time fly so quickly and we'll be home in a month.<br />
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Elder Johnson got to play the piano for Farewell Nauvoo--the song we sing every farewell breakfast. He did great.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> The great Grape Stomp.</span> Remember last year I reported a 5K that the city of Nauvoo hosts each year? Well, its that time again.<br />
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I found a group to walk with this time. (It included all the sisters below with the exception of Elder Johnson)<br />
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Elder Johnson took first place for his age group. I'm pretty sure he wasn't the only runner. :)<br />
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Sister Saline walked with us and took first place for her age group.<br />
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Actually, we had numerous winners from the missionary pool.<br />
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We had almost as many winners as we had participants (seven out of fourteen). There was probably 150-175 who participated from the surrounding communities so that's pretty good don't you think?<br />
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Summer is not over yet. At Pioneer Pastimes, the temperature reached 99 degrees yesterday. It only reads 98 below, but it had been 99 several times earlier in the day. It was an exhausting way to recuperate from the morning race. We're not complaining though...The weather is suppose to drop dramatically by the end of this week.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">Here's a bit of <span style="font-size: x-large;">interesting history</span>. As the Mormons left Nauvoo and headed west away from the mobs that hated them so desperately, they were not as prepared as they had hoped and planned to be because of the early departure the first of February instead of spring. Thus, once they got across the Mississippi River and a month or two between them and their enemies, a muddy spring slowed their progress. However, since they were a bit safer from the mobs, they used the delay to earn money for supplies for their travels.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">The following is taken from a National Historic Trails guide published by the US Department of Interior referring to this time in Mormon history:</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">The pioneers comforted and helped each other along: those who had food, bedding, and shelter shared with those who had none; those with musical or literary talent tried to cheer and inspire the camp. Their hardships brought the people together, forging their faith, group identity, and sense of destiny. The spirit of these Mormon pioneers rings in the lyrics of their now-famous anthem, "Come, Come, Ye Saints," written one miserable, muddy night in south-central Iowa by emigrant William Clayton, in honor of the birth of his son.</span><br />
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Above is a picture of the church and stone house built and used by Mormon pioneers as they made their way west.</div>
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<span style="color: red; text-align: center;">Remember, I told you about a hotel in Bentonsport that was built by the Mormons when their trip was delayed? Well above is another building called the stone house built by the Mormons and used for many years by pioneers passing through. The building was remodeled a few years ago and we ate an Amish cooked meal in it last night.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">The Amish are some of the sweetest people I've met--anywhere. We've become pretty good friends with the Bontraeger's who catered the meal. (Amish don't like their pictures taken so we respected that.) They are the owners of the Sunrise Bakery. See their website at <a href="http://villagesofvanburen.com/directory.html?item=1455">Sunrise Bakery</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">We enjoyed tasty home cookin' in a historic building renovated with current styles. How fun that this old building is still getting good use.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;"> See President and Sister Gibbons below</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red;"> What an amazing man and sweet wife. We can't say enough about them.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">Guests are sparse now-a-days after our Nauvoo sites accommodated over 55,000 guests in the past 12 months.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red;">Did I mention that we had almost 11,000 guests at Pioneer Pastimes for the month of July 2015? The numbers may seem a little off, but keep in mind that if guests leave and then come back, we count them again. What we don't count is how long they stay. Sometimes they play with us for hours.</span></b></div>
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We took one last <span style="font-size: x-large;">trip to Hannibal, Missouri,</span> this time taking some of our friends with us who hadn't yet been there.<br />
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We also went to the cave where Mark Twain had explored as a child. </div>
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Many historians think that this is the cave that inspired many of his books. </div>
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You'll be relieved to know that we saw no sign of Injun Joe.</div>
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We also stopped in Quincy on the way home and showed the other missionaries the monument that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints erected in gratitude for the hospitality that the residents of Quincy showed the LDS people in 1839. The good people of Quincy, Illinois literally saved their lives after the Mormon Extermination Order in Missouri. </div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Important to note that it was in Quincy that the whole country was blessed only a few decades later. Remember the Abraham Lincoln/Douglas Presidential debate in Quincy was when the tides turned in Lincoln's favor. What would have happened to America had Douglas been at the helm during the Civil War? </span><span style="text-align: center;">I shudder to think about it. </span></div>
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The game of Fox and Geese was a hit.</div>
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<span style="color: red;"> So, here's a fun story. Sister Sharon Watkins came to Nauvoo with us April 2014. Her first husband died many years ago when Sharon was expecting their first child. Her married life after that has been a rocky road to say the least. Her assignment here in Nauvoo as a missionary has been public relations the past half year or so and her office was right next to a widower, Elder Larry Nicholl who has been in charge of computer support for all missionaries. </span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">(How would you like the job of computer support for hundreds of senior missionaries? Did I hear you say that would be your worst nightmare? Hmmm! You're probably not alone in your sentiments.)</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"> Anyway, you might have guessed, the two became good friends and then fell in love. They got married yesterday just a week after Sharon was released as a missionary. Elder Nicholl owns a home here and they will continue their life living here in Nauvoo. Rumor has it that Sharon will most likely continue her public relations... not as a missionary but perhaps, in politics. We'll see where these two go. I suspect they will have a big influence on the community here as both of them are well known and loved.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"> They were pulled in a buggy up to the women's garden where the guests waited.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"> A couple of Sharon's granddaughters were flower girls. (Check out their cute pioneer dresses...They were custom made by someone named Sister Amy Johnson. Remember I made pioneer dresses for Pioneer Pastimes? Well, you never know what other uses might pop up. )</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"> They were not married in the temple since both of them had been sealed to their first spouse.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"> There were plenty of guests. This picture gives you a taste.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Whenever there are five Sundays in a month, the adult men and women meet together instead of splitting up for the last hour of church. I took a few notes today.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">See <a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/10/come-join-with-us?lang=eng">Why Would Anyone Want to Join Such a Church?</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">My questions for you:</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">1. Do you believe in Jesus Christ?</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">2. Do you believe that Christ was resurrected and is alive today?</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">3. Do you believe that Christ is capable of restoring His church as it was originally organized with apostles and prophets and proper Priesthood authority?</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Well, it happened! Christ Himself came to earth and restored His gospel beginning with Joseph Smith. Of course, it's not all about Joseph Smith...It's all about Christ. Everything in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is about our Savior. Come and find out for yourself.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">What is the "doctrine of Christ"?</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">See <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/31?lang=eng">2 Nephi 31-32</a> and <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/11?lang=eng">3 Nephi 11</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Will you take the next step to finding Christ?</span><br />
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We had a little breakfast commemorating our sewing days together. The first of the group leave this week. The rest will follow within the next couple of months. From left to right, Sister Hatch, Udall, Jones, Toomer, Wilkes, Dalton, Boyle, and me. What a team we were.</div>
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Our Nauvoo friends, the Shaws, were going to bring dinner over last night and we were going to provide dessert and a little lesson for the kids. The main cook, Stephanie, and mother of the group is expecting a baby and found herself too sick to perform any major tasks. So Daddy pulled out frozen pizza and sheepishly brought the family over without his wife. After pizza, we taught the kids about how every member of the family is important, and has an impact on the others. For an object lesson, we had the kids help us make cookies. Then we secretly took a portion of cookie dough and added extra salt. We compared the terrible results of the one spoiled cookie to how negative behavior can affect the whole family. On the other hand, cooperative work can bring about yummy cookies. Of course, cherry pie and chocolate ice cream added a nice touch to the cookies.</div>
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<span style="color: blue;">For preparation day this week we went to <span style="font-size: x-large;">Bishop's Hill, Illinois</span>. Bishop's Hill was founded in 1846 the same year the Mormon's left Nauvoo heading for the Salt Lake Valley. Eric Janson is the founder. He along with about 1,500- 4000 Swedes left Sweden in search of religious freedom. They wanted to be able to read the Bible and worship in their own way rather than what was being forced upon them in Sweden at that time.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"> Only about 600-700 people actually settled here. Of the original group, some died while others got distracted and settled elsewhere. The town was run as a commune with all property and belongings considered community owned. In 1861, Eric was shot by a disgruntled husband whose wife refused to leave the commune. Two years later without their leader, the commune failed and the property and belongings were equally divided by its occupants.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">The similarities between Bishop's Hill and Nauvoo were striking to me. Both Eric and Joseph claimed to be inspired by God which created enemies with other religious organizations. They were born about the same time (1808 and 1805). Both Eric and Joseph left their native land and inspired others to follow. Both Eric and Joseph were fairly young when they were killed--Eric 42 and Joseph 38. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"> Bishop's Hill like Nauvoo is deemed a historical site and restored as a museum town. Too bad Bishop Hill doesn't have a crew of 250 volunteer missionaries to keep it up and make it beautiful. Despite that fact, it was a darling little town.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"> The difference is that there is no such thing as Jansonism anymore while there are almost 16 million members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 185 countries around the world. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">By small and simple things are great things brought to pass. I served in the Sarah Granger Kimball home where the Relief Society women's organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was first inspired. A small group of women wanted to organize their efforts in helping to take care of the poor and assist in building the temple. Today it is the oldest and largest women's suffrage organization in the world providing service to millions world wide.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Which brings me to another point. Today in church, we studied in Acts <a href="https://www.lds.org/bible-videos/videos/peters-revelation-to-take-the-gospel-to-the-gentiles?lang=eng">Peter takes the gospel of Jesus Christ to the gentiles</a>. God loves all his children and all have or will have the opportunity to accept or reject His gospel plan. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Sometimes, it seems otherwise. There is a great deal of pain and suffering around the world. We don't usually understand the workings of deity. Young Sister Uata quoted a poem today at church:</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">I asked God to take away my pride, and God said "NO".<br />He said it was not for Him to take away, but for me to give up.<br /><br />I asked God to make my handicapped child whole, and God said "NO".<br />He said her spirit is whole, her body is only temporary.<br /><br />I asked God to grant me patience, and God said "NO".<br />He said that patience is a by-product of tribulation,<br />it isn't granted, it's earned.<br /><br />I asked God to give me happiness, and God said "NO".<br />He said He gives blessings, happiness is up to me.<br /><br />I asked God to spare me pain, and God said "NO".<br />He said suffering draws you apart from worldly cares<br />and brings you closer to me.<br /><br />I asked God to make my spirit grow, and He said "NO".<br />He said I must grow on my own, but He will prune me to make me fruitful.<br /><br />I asked God to help me love others as much as He loves me,<br />And God said "Ah, finally you have the idea"!</span></div>
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For preparation day last week, two of the young sister missionaries wanted to go with us to Springfield, Illinois. We stopped at the Illinois capital building before going to the Abraham Lincoln museum.</div>
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We also enjoyed the Lincoln museum. What a great man... loved his sense of humor. During one of the presidential elections, Lincoln was accused of being two-faced. His reply was, "If I had two faces, why would I use this one." He has a point. :)</div>
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We went to Olive Garden for lunch, but forgot to take a picture so this will have to do. (Eating at franchise restaurants is a real treat when we're isolated in small town America.)</div>
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Robert and Ruann Crumpley from Arvada came to Nauvoo. They report that Colorado still exists. </div>
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Is that true? We miss all of you, but it won't be long now.</div>
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My sister and three of her children came to Nauvoo.</div>
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We went on an oxen ride with them. Amazingly, all this time has passed before we finally took time to experience this part of Nauvoo.</div>
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Below are a few of the reader boards that accompany the oxen ride.</div>
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Since we worked at Pioneer Pastimes in the morning, we had a few hours in the afternoon to take the Beckstrands touring through some of the sites.</div>
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Elder Johnson hasn't lost his touch at the barrel making demonstration.</div>
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This view is outside the Jonathan Browning Gun Shop. I didn't get the best picture, but if you look close, you'll see the temple peering above the trees. In the front you see the fenced off grave sight of little Emma Eliza Browning. Emma died here in Nauvoo, but what comfort Jonathan and Elizabeth Browning found knowing that with temple blessings, their family can be sealed together beyond the grave and into the eternities.</div>
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We got a picture of one of the steepest stairs in Nauvoo below. Lucy Mack Smith, mother of Joseph Smith, was given this home in 1846 before the saints left Nauvoo. She was too crippled to endure the long trip to the Salt Lake Valley and remained in Nauvoo for most of her remaining years. She was forced to leave during the Nauvoo War in the fall of 1846, but returned a few years later when the enemies stopped harassing them.</div>
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Rope making... fun for all.</div>
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Nauvoo blossoms as big as a child's smiling face.</div>
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This is the grave sight of Lucy Mack Smith and her husband Joseph Smith Sr, parents of Joseph Smith Junior. Note the Mississippi River and beautiful blossoms in the background.</div>
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The trip wouldn't be complete without including Carthage.</div>
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We ended the day with lunch from one of our favorite franchises. Elder Johnson and mine was Panda Express. The Beckstrands chose KFC.</div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Invitation:</span><br />
<span style="color: red;">In Sunday School today, Mormon's all around the world studied the story of Saul who later changed his name to Paul in the New Testament. Remember the story? </span><br />
<span style="color: red;">See <a href="https://www.lds.org/bible-videos/videos/the-road-to-damascus?lang=eng">Acts 22:6-16</a> or <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/acts/22?lang=eng">Acts 22 (scripture form)</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"> I was struck with the thought of how alarming it would be to wake up one day and realize that you had been working passionately for years on the wrong team. It seems obvious to me that Saul truly thought that Christ and His followers were wicked blasphemers who should be eliminated from off the face of the earth. We know the rest of Saul/Paul's story of course and many of Christ's teachings are recorded from Paul's teachings as he embraced the gospel of Jesus Christ and worked just as passionately to defend His word.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">So, my invitation to you is to learn for yourself which is the Savior, Jesus Christ's gospel and work to be on His team. It doesn't matter what choices you've made up to this time in your life. There is enough power in the atonement to heal and change even Saul so why not each of us. </span>Amy Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10475701177816461147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854804719021337221.post-82916017468309948612015-08-09T20:07:00.000-07:002015-08-10T05:34:06.775-07:00The LDS Church's Stance on Marriage and Why?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
To start with, here are some jokes to cheer up your week:</div>
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<li>Did you know you can keep track of your age by checking your underwear size? Little Luke said his shorts read 4-6 years.</li>
<li>When Grandpa reported that he was 62 years old, his grandson asked, "Wow! Did you start at one?"</li>
<li>After swatting mosquitoes in Nauvoo without success, one youngster suggested as the sun set that the swatter might as well surrender ... the mosquitoes were now coming out with flashlights.</li>
<li>One kindergartner reprimanded her teacher after an oral inquisition of reporting what various colors were and then replying, "I think you should figure out some of the colors yourself."</li>
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We had a rather different lesson for our missionary training meeting this week. We talked about the concerns the church has on the country's new definition of marriage and how we can field answers to questions. Following are some of my notes which are also mixed with some of my own observations.</div>
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But first I have to tell you that knowing my topic for you this week, I looked for opportunities to take pictures of families playing together. </div>
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I fear that I got a little carried away with families galore in Pioneer Pastimes.</div>
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Not to worry...I only gave you a taste of what I took, but aren't they cute?</div>
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So here is the deal...Laws and commandments given by Father in Heaven are for the purpose of leading His children back into his presence. Of course, being with Father in Heaven is the ultimate joy for us as well. We are taught in <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/130?lang=eng">D&C 130: 20</a> "<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">There is a </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">law</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">, irrevocably decreed in </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">heaven</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;"> before the foundations of this world, upon which all </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">blessings</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;"> are predicated—"</span><br />
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The laws of God are not our laws. They are God's and no one despite their office or status in the world is authorized to change them. Marriage between a man and woman is ordained of God and t<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">he family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"> See </span><a href="https://www.lds.org/topics/family-proclamation?lang=eng&cid=PA0414-02">Family Proclamation</a><br />
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This is not dangerous doctrine to society. The church is 100% behind all citizens around the world having equal housing, equal opportunity for employment, equal healthcare and equal probate. See <a href="http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/top-church-leaders-counsel-members-after-supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-decision?cid=HP_TU_6-30-2015_dPAD_fMNWS_xLIDyL1-A_">Response to Supreme Court ruling</a><br />
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Never-the-less, men and women complete each other. They are different and complimentary. They contribute differently but equally. Men and women complete or perfect each other. By design, they need each other in order to bare children. Scriptures support that neither gender by itself can progress to its highest potential in the eternities after our life on earth. Families are indeed forever.<br />
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Same gender marriage contradicts the gospel plan which includes offspring. Our eternal destiny has marriage and family at the heart. That concept is key in why the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opposes same gender marriage.<br />
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There are possibly some very devastating ramifications that could follow the passing of the recent Supreme Court decision on marriage.<br />
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<li>The school curriculum throughout the country could change in an attempt to "educate" our children with disregard to individual family morals and values.</li>
<li>Laws may be established limiting free speech in regards to different opinions about same gender attraction including social media. (As you know, loss of jobs has already resulted from individuals expressing their disapproval. Can we possibly tolerate laws that punish rather than protect freedom of speech in this regard?)</li>
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The family is under attack by a frontal assault with great momentum. One of the first examples was passing no fault divorce which states that no proof of mental or physical abuse was needed in order to obtain a divorce. This doesn't sound too bad on the outside, but think about it. Truly, it was done for individual interests not societal interests. The ramifications are that divorce and broken homes are now rampant and that's not what is best for innocent children.<br />
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Obtaining a divorce easily was only the beginning, of course. I won't take time to list the other laws passed that are devastating to children and families, but look at the results:<br />
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In 1960 5% of children were born to unwed mothers. In 2015 40% of births were to unwed mothers. Remember, children of single parents have a drastically higher potential for poverty. (I missed the statistic.)<br />
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Childhood psychological disorders have increased 1000% in the past 50 years.</div>
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We are also taught "<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">Wherefore teach it unto your children, that all men, everywhere, must </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">repent</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">, or they can in nowise inherit the kingdom of God, for </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">no </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">unclean thing</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;"> can dwell there</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">, or </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">dwell</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;"> in his </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">presence</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">;" </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">. <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/moses/6?lang=eng">Moses 6:57</a></span><br />
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If you were learning the rules to a game, wouldn't you want to know how to win? Men and women are not the game makers in this case. So, learn the rules, follow them as best you can, and watch what sweetness and goodness follows. I can think of no greater joy than what I've experienced as a mother and grandmother as well as nurturing my relationship with my husband.<br />
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God is a God of love. For those with same gender attraction, please know that you are just as loved. There is a way for you to return to your Father in Heaven and receive all that He has. However, the way I understand it, it doesn't include following after your own lusts. None of us can change the rules. All of us must learn to control our appetites and passions, but I believe you will be judged fairly and lovingly. Certainly, we can treat each other with kindness and civility even though we may disagree.<br />
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For more information check out this talk <a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04/why-marriage-why-family?lang=eng">Why Marriage Why Family</a></div>
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What a fun surprise...one of my former seminary students, Sherilyn McGinnis found us after Sunset by the Mississippi last night to introduce her new husband, Devin Cobia who was a Young Performing Missionary last summer. Sunset is now officially over so we celebrated by playing card games with the young Cobia couple.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">As I was reading the Book of Mormon this week another principle jumped out at me. See <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/12?lang=eng">Alma 12:8</a> </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">In summary, Zeezrom had become a bitter enemy of the Church of God. He was convincing people that it is impossible to know of things to come. Therefore, no one can know that Christ would come into the world. As Alma and Amulek taught Zeezrom how they had come to know these truths, Zeezrom began to ask questions. Therein lies the principle. How many times do the scriptures--both the Holy Bible and the Book of Mormon tell us to "ask and ye shall receive"? The Lord won't pour down knowledge and understanding unless we ask for it. It's as simple as that.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">So the invitation is for you to think about what you don't know about heaven and earth, about your purpose on earth, and the nature of God. What don't you know or understand that has become a stumbling block? Then, will you ask in sincere prayer for the answers?</span>Amy Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10475701177816461147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854804719021337221.post-27519766013104666382015-08-03T05:35:00.000-07:002015-08-03T05:35:41.976-07:00Goodbye Breakfast, John Deere Factory, Relatives, Pageant is over!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
July's Goodbye Breakfast was so big, we held it in the Women's Garden at the Visitor's Center.</div>
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We said "goodbye" to all the Young Performing missionaries, as well as the pageant core casts.<br />
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We held it a few weeks ago and some of them aren't leaving for another week, so it seemed strange to all of us to hold it so early in the month. However, many of them are leaving tomorrow and the rest will follow in a week.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">John Deere Harvester</span><br />
For Preparation day this week, we went to Moline and took a tour at the John Deere Factory<br />
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Can you believe the size of this animal? It's as big as a house and can harvest 38 acres an hour. I didn't mis-speak...38 per <b>hour</b>!<br />
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We weren't allowed to take pictures inside the factory, but after lunch we stopped by this candy and ice cream shop.<br />
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Don't worry...we just smelled the candy. We might have eaten a little home made ice cream, but just a little...okay a pint.<br />
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My sister, Becky Connell and some of her family came to Nauvoo. They tried to camp, but with two small toddlers, the moms and babies decided to sleep at our house. We were happy to oblige.<br />
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Nauvoo summer: check out these platter size blossoms. We had to get a picture just so you'd believe us. Did I ever tell you that summer here is beautiful?<br />
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We spent a little time at the Country Fair held before the pageant every night, but my camera battery died so I didn't get many pictures. They provided games of all types as well as dancing and family fun. It was actually better equipped than Pioneer Pastimes. My only regret was not getting more ideas on camera.<br />
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The pageant finished up this week. There was close to 3,000 guests every night the past four weeks.<br />
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One evening, the core pageant cast performed what they call, "Our Story Goes On".<br />
What talent...it was incredible.<br />
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Our numbers in the sites will drop dramatically when pageant is finished. However, we had 10,693 guests at Pioneer Pastimes in July alone so it won't be dead--just not as crazy. I'll keep you updated on number of guests for all of Nauvoo after our training meeting this week.<br />
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In a nutshell--We did it! What a marvelous experience.<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Invitation:</span><br />
<span style="color: red;">I'm still reading the Book of Mormon in Spanish alongside an English version. Consider these ideas:</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">There is a story in the book of Alma which tells about the conversion of Amulek. Amulek said, "</span><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 25.2000007629395px; margin: 0px 1px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4 </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">And behold, I am also a man of no small</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">reputation among all those who know me; yea, and behold, I have many kindreds and</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">friends, and I have also acquired much riches by the hand of my</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">industry.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Alulek then tells of his conversion. </span><span style="color: red;">See the rest of the story in </span><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/10?lang=eng">Alma 10:6,9, 20-21</a><span style="color: red;">.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Ultimately, it is the Holy Ghost that confirms truth--right? There is no other way to know the things of God for sure. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">So if the holy Ghost has confirmed to you that the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ has been restored, will you choose to believe it and change your life because of it?</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Amulek said in verse six that he knew much of the ways of the Lord yet he would not know because he hardened his heart against it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Will you soften your heart and know that God lives? He loves you and He loves me. He sent His Son to pay for our sins if we will have a broken heart and a contrite spirit for unto none else can the ends of the law be answered. <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/2?lang=eng">2 Nephi 2:6-8</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Amulek taught that destruction awaits those who will not repent. <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/10?lang=eng">Alma 10:20-21</a> I plead with you for your own benefit--repent, and be healed of your sins through the one who has all power and who loves you.</span><br />
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<br />Amy Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10475701177816461147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854804719021337221.post-38764213518007081072015-07-27T13:03:00.000-07:002015-07-27T14:13:32.149-07:00Tin Shop, Patterns, Angel Moroni, and Visitors aplenty...in fact wall to wall<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
We served at the Sylvester Stoddard Tin Shop the other day.</div>
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Sylvester was one of the pattern makers here in Nauvoo in the 1840's. While giving people a tour, we talk about patterns in our lives.<br />
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We also talk about using the correct pattern and following it carefully to get the desired product. Did you know that Yankee peddlers sold tin products for over 150 years? Me either.<br />
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There are some pretty cool antique tools on display for making tin products.<br />
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Mr. Stoddard was a member of the Nauvoo Tinners' Association who made the 1846 angel weather vane that sat on top of the original Nauvoo Temple.</div>
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Today many of the LDS temples have Angel Moroni on top of the temple except that he is standing up straight and not a weather vane.</div>
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This is the view from the temple of the Mississippi River. I don't think my camera did it justice.<br />
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I'm trying to show you the current Angel Moroni on the top, but all I can get is how huge and beautiful the temple is.<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">My invitation to you this week is to examine the patterns that you are currently following in your life. Will they ultimately bring you deep and abiding satisfaction and happiness? If you were to be taken from this life today, can you imagine that Father in Heaven would be pleased with your actions and desires of your heart? What should you change? Will you do it?</span><br />
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Only one more week of pageant. Can you believe how fast the summer is going?<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">We had the missionaries that we were stationed with in Carthage last summer spend the weekend with us. They went home in the fall of 2014. It was terrific to catch up with their lives and reminisce about old days.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"> Originally, we thought we might have as many as 6 guests. We started with six and then Sunday morning awoke to three more. Actually, we love it---crazy like our own home, but lots of fun.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"> Some of our Carthage friends will finish their 18 month mission this fall the same time we finish so the picture below includes the visitors as well as those currently serving in Nauvoo. What a fun reunion.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"> As I said, "wall to wall beds"</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"> </span>How do you like our tomato plant below? You can think of it in two ways. Either Nauvoo climate is so good that the Johnson's vegetable garden is still alive after two months (the optimistic approach). Or, the Johnson's are so bad at gardens that they can't even get a crop in the rich soil of Nauvoo (the <b>not</b> so optimistic approach).<br />
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Do you see even one tomato? Some animal swiped the one single fruit we had ripening for our BLT.<br />
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Just because it gets ignored most days...shouldn't be cause for concern. After all, we watered it a couple of times. What more do you want? (You should see our neighbor's plant. Looks like a bush with big juicy red and green things.)<br />
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All the way from Houston, Emma & Annie Beckstrand came to Nauvoo with 350 teenagers 14-18 years old from their stake in Texas.</div>
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Oh yes, and Nathan Beckstrand as well.</div>
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It's always fun to have company. Nauvoo is a testimony building place for all ages, but soooo good for youth who are searching for truth. You can't help but notice a group that size.</div>
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<span style="color: red;">Two of the Young Sister Missionaries came with us on our preparation day. We took them to Iowa. It was interesting enough to do it two weeks in a row. That says a lot.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"> Young Sister Missionaries find fun a little differently than we do.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"> We ate at the Old Mill again where the LDS crossed the Des Moines River after a delay due to heavy rain bringing mud that was impossible to pass through.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"> We walked the bridge again...remember last week? This time I brought evidence of the rusty support beams.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"> Then we stopped at the Indian Museum again. This time the owner was home and showed us around.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;">He hikes and camps all around the midwest to find these specimens of petrified wood, geods etc.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"> What an interesting fellow. He has also been collecting arrow heads since he was seven years old and has them displayed inlay wood that is intricately designed. Beautiful work, don't you think?</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"> He is standing next to his favorite arrowhead below which is in the shape of a snake. "That's a big deal", he says. There were hundreds of arrowheads all around the room. My camera battery died or I would have taken more pictures.</span><br />
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It was finally our turn to go with the Nauvoo on the Road group. We joined the Bloomfield County Fair showing our Pioneer Pastime games, cinnamon cookies, and rope making.<br />
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We mostly played and talked with people old and young. It was a very hot day--in the 90's with high humidity.<br />
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Showing off their old tractors was a big part of the fair.<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Invitation:</span><br />
<span style="color: red;">We had the honor of having Jeffrey R Holland, one of the twelve apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, come to Nauvoo. It was really a family trip for him and not an assignment to speak to us, but he took an hour last week to address us. The sites were all shut down early one evening and Rendezvous and Sunset were moved to 5:30 instead of 7 pm to accommodate him. That's a big deal...right!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Well, anyway it was worth all the trouble. There is something quite amazing about being in the same room with an apostle of the Lord and Savior. Even if he hadn't talked, I think it will be emblazoned in my memory for life. I took a few notes to remember.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">He said that if he could choose where he served as a missionary, of the 405 missions throughout the world, he would pick Nauvoo. He thanked us for giving of our time and money to be here. He acknowledged our sacrifices and compared it to the sacrifice made by the saints in the 1840's. Of course, it's not nearly as great, but it is a sacrifice for all of us and the Lord loves us for it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Elder Holland suggested that most of the early leaders may have known that ultimately, Nauvoo would not succeed, but perhaps they knew that it would 100's of years later. He believes that we are keeping the dream of Zion alive in and through the temple, the sites, the pageants, the performances and all that we do here.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">May I offer you my testimony again? Nauvoo is like no other city on earth. Why? Because it was initially built as a city of God. The first place on earth after several millennium to have a temple where truths are taught and ordinances are performed for the salvation of all mankind... any who choose to accept it whether living or dead. Men, women, and children gave their all including their own life to keep it alive. Now the followers of Christ have returned to honor and celebrate what was started over 175 years ago.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">The gospel of Jesus Christ has been restored to the earth in it's fullness. Will you learn this for yourself? Will you ask in prayer if this is true? </span><br />
<br />Amy Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10475701177816461147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854804719021337221.post-38248614498662129222015-07-12T17:15:00.000-07:002015-07-13T03:46:04.934-07:00The Pageants are Here and so are the monsoon rains! Preparation Day Travels<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
As was said by one Nauvoo resident, Nauvoo has 1,100 people one day and 20,000 the next.--The Pageants are here!</div>
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The audience sits on plastic arm chairs to enjoy the performances. Three months ago, the hill you see below was not there...instead, it was flat which made it hard to see past the guy in front of you. After truck loads of dirt were brought in raising the hill a good 20-25 feet, missionaries worked hard and fast one morning and finished the dirt hill off with newly laid sod. </div>
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It only took an hour and a half to complete the job.</div>
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It's quite amazing to see ambition coordinated--another Nauvoo miracle.</div>
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The Pageants are now off and running. After a week of rehearsing by day, the 20 core cast and dozens of family participants are looking and sounding amazing by night. </div>
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The British Pageant was second and alternates with the Nauvoo Pageant. </div>
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Both are amazingly performed.</div>
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So here is how it works: As I mentioned there are 20 members of the core cast that perform every night for the next five weeks. There are twenty core members for the Nauvoo Pageant, and twenty for the British Pageant. Families apply to be part of the cast. They are selected to come for two weeks. The first week they watch and practice. The second week they perform which means there are new supporting actors each week. How fun is that?<br />
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Yesterday afternoon, the sky opened and dumped a reservoir of water on us. Then just in time for the pageants, the clouds disappeared, and the water began draining away to the Mississippi River.</div>
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These families are making lemonade out of lemons. They must be from Houston or something where this kind of thing is the norm.</div>
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<span style="color: red;">When the Mormons left Nauvoo, they trekked across Iowa and stopped for the winter on the other side of the Missouri River which they named Council Bluffs and is situated 300 miles from Nauvoo. There they built log cabins and prepared for the 1,300 mile trek to the Salt Lake Valley. Before they left in the spring of 1847, they planted crops for those who would follow.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"> On the way to Council Bluffs, they were delayed by mud here at Bonaparte.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Benjamin F Johnson mentioned above is Elder Johnson's great-great-grandfather of whom I've mentioned before.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">At Bentonsport, some of the Mormons were delayed due to mud so they stayed a while and used their skills to serve the community and earn much needed funds to further their travels.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Bentonsport is now a darling little town with an old bridge built in 1892. The bridge was good for bikers and hikers but not much else.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"> There's a fun little store named Iron and Lace in Bentonsport.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"> They make all their own pottery, iron decorations, and rugs. </span><br />
<span style="color: red;">Queen Ann's lace decorates many of the pieces.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"> The owner told us that they use a flower called Queen Ann's Lace to mask the pottery before spraying the color. Then during the firing process, the flower burns away leaving the beautiful silhouette that you see above and below.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><b>This past month (June 26, 2015), the Supreme </b></span><span lang="EN-US"><b>Court <span style="mso-tab-count: 1; width: 6.55%;"> </span>handed down their decision on marriage </b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><b>– 5 to <span style="mso-tab-count: 1; width: 7.62%;"> </span>4. </b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #990000;"><b>One justice had previously performed 4 same sex </b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1; width: 8.92%;"> </span>weddings; one is a lesbian so 2 should have </b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1; width: 10.41%;"> </span>recused themselves – but didn’t.
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<span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #990000;"><b>Making</b></span><span lang="EN-US"><b> SS ‘marriage’ legal throughout the country will have </b></span><span lang="EN-US"><b>a profound effect on religious practice – for </b></span><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1; width: 9.12%;"> </span>LDS too – consider the statement by 1</b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="position: relative; top: -0.45em;"><b>st</b></span><span lang="EN-US"><b> Presidency and 12 apostles June 29th.
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<span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><b>Apostles – in recent months talked about religious </b></span><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1; width: 10.39%;"> </span>freedom - an indication of their/Lord’s </b></span><span lang="EN-US"><b>concern <span style="mso-tab-count: 1; width: 3.92%;"> </span>in anticipation of this decision </b></span><span lang="EN-US"><b>(especially <span style="mso-tab-count: 1; width: 9.05%;"> </span>Pres. Uchtdorf, Elders Oaks, </b></span><span lang="EN-US"><b>Holland, Cook, <span style="mso-tab-count: 1; width: 1.6%;"> </span>Christofferson, and Andersen.) </b></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lds.org/search?lang=eng&query=Uchtdorf+religious+freedom&collection=news">See</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Bambi, is that you?</span></div>
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One evening as we were headed for the car, we saw these two fawns. I caught a couple of pictures before they bounded for cover.</div>
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<span style="color: red;">I love our country and pray that our grandchildren will have reason to love it as well.</span></div>
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When my sister, Becky, and her husband came to Nauvoo to celebrate the Fourth of July, we took one afternoon and went to, Quincy Illinois.</div>
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has this monument in honor of the <span style="font-size: large;">1,600 </span>Quincy, Illinois citizens who took in over <span style="font-size: large;">5,000</span> Mormons in 1839 after the Missouri Extermination Order.</div>
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Rather than erecting a big visitor's center here a few years ago, the church donated a large sum of money to the food banks and charities in Quincy as a thank you to them and then left this small monument. </div>
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You know how I have mentioned in other posts the poverty that exists here in Nauvoo--well, actually the whole mid-west? One day when taking a morning walk, we decided to take pictures of some of the vacant buildings along Mulholland Street (the main street that runs through Nauvoo).<br />
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All of the shops are vacant. Some of them are for sale while others are simply abandoned. We stopped taking pictures after the eight shots above. There were lots more.</div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Today, we worked at the Cultural Hall. I realized that I've never given you any information about it.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">Short story is that it was dedicated in April of 1844 by Hyrum Smith, brother of Joseph Smith just two months before Hyrum and Joseph were shot. It was used for 16 different purposes including plays, concerts, court sessions, doctor offices, funerals, police headquarters, and others. After the LDS left Nauvoo, it was abandoned for five years and then sold at an auction for $4.47. It was used as a residence first and then changed into an apartment building. The third floor was removed some time in that period due to disrepair. It was added back on in 1961 when it was purchased by the Nauvoo Restoration Inc.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"> The cultural hall was originally called the Masonic Hall and the Masons used the top floor. Sometimes the top floor was also used for dances and banquets. There is an old dumb waiter in the back of the building most likely used by the baker next door, Lucious Scovil.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"> Today the hall has been restored to it's originall state and two live plays are performed regularly--Just Plain Anna Amanda, and Rendezvous in Old Nauvoo.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"> Elder Johnson has been practicing the music to Rendezvous. He used the slow time today to practice on the piano on stage. He sounded marvelous--like a pro.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;">Just 19 days after it's dedication, Brigham Young was cast as the high priest in a play called Pizzaro which was a big deal in those times. The director, Thomas Lyne, said later in jest that he was sorry for casting Brigham in the roll because he'd been acting like a high priest ever since.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"> During the winter of 1845-6, the Mormons cleared out all the benches here and used the hall to assemble covered wagons used for the exodus to the Great Salt Lake Basin. Remember, they weren't given much time to prepare so the families set up an assembly line. Wagon parts were made at homes and wherever else they could find. Then they were assembled in the streets until inclement weather forced them inside this Cultural Hall. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Currently, the second floor is a show case for antique quilts.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"> The quilt on the bed below was taken from here to Salt Lake in 1858 and then donated back in 2003 for display.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"> We used the top floor for our Valentines party last February--remember? The floor here is the original. I have yet to show the room to guests with children and not have them dance around the room. You just can't help yourself. :)</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"> If you look close, you can see the Nauvoo Temple out the window below. Well, maybe you can't, but I could when I took the picture.</span></div>
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So I've been thinking more about our dilemma with our Nauvoo neighbors who don't really like us much which I mentioned in our last post. I'm convinced that the solution is to ignore the differences that have separated us in the past and focus on what we have in common. I think that if we had a common enemy--for example a real enemy like foreign invaders--we could suddenly be best friends. With many misunderstandings put behind us, we could all enjoy this sleepy little town that becomes a zoo only one month of the year.<br />
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Speaking of zoo, the pageants start on Tuesday of this week and we are ready for them....we think.<br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-large;">Invitation:</span><br />
<span style="color: orange;">My invitation to you this week is to look at yourself--what can you change about you to make a better world? How can you make that change? What can you do this week? Will you do it?</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange;">Words from Elder Johnson:</span><br />
<span style="color: orange;">We live in a world which requires us to make judgments that are often without sufficient information. We often make judgments about people which can change or redefine our relationships with them. Martha, the sister of Mary and Lazarus, has been judged as having lesser faith than Mary. In reality, Martha had depth of understanding and faith when she encountered Jesus after Lazarus death. A misjudgment of Martha may have caused us not to know the true nature of this wonderful woman. </span><br />
<span style="color: orange;">Good judgment is needed not only in understanding people but also in facing decisions that often lead us away from Heavenly Father. As I look back over my own personal life, I can see many instances in which a slight change of course based on poor judgment would have led me far from where the Lord wanted me to be-decisions like having a family while obtaining an education, being active in all aspects of the gospel, paying tithes and offerings when income was severely limited, and accepting callings at difficult times, which helped me to understand more about sacrifice. Many blessings in life are missed because worldly judgment was applied to what was really a spiritual decision.</span><br />
<span style="color: orange;">Here are four guides for developing judgment in making important decisions. 1) Put your own personal standards in alignment with the gospel of Jesus Christ. 2) Listen to the messages of the living prophet. 3) Cultivate with the Holy Spirit a relationship of listening. 4) Keep the commandments.</span><br />
<span style="color: orange;">When we face difficult decisions and follow these guidelines, we can know how we should judge.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/ensign/2010/05/developing-good-judgment-and-not-judging-others?lang=eng">See Developing Good Judgment and Not Judging Others by Elder Gregory A Schwitzer</a></span><br />
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We're still in June and look at the height of the corn growing in Nauvoo.</div>
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We've seen a about a dozen red Cardinals the past year. This is not one of them of course, but it was a good reminder for me to mention it to you.</div>
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This is the location of where the Nauvoo Expositor was located in 1844 which I referred to in our last post.</div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">The Whys Behind Opposition to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints</span><br />
<span style="color: red;">My head is spinning with information that I've been collecting the past year and specifically the past few weeks. I'm not sure how to put it all into words in a condensed form that still makes sense. So please, bear with me, and I'll try to make sense of why America in mob form would take the law into their own hands and murder. I will also relate it to the Presidential elections of 2012 and my opinion on why conservative Americans were<b> <span style="font-size: large;">so</span> </b>opposed to voting for a Mormon President that they stayed home rather than voting out an incumbent that they were passionately opposed to.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Last week we had the mayor of Nauvoo, John McCarty, come to our missionary training meeting. We've always had a member of our church give the training so this was definitely unique. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Of the 1,100 residents in Nauvoo, I'm guessing that only about 10% of them are Mormon. We were all hoping that Mayor McCarty could give us insight into how to better blend our culture with theirs. It was rather discouraging to hear him report that out of the non-Mormons living in Nauvoo; probably about 60% don't like us very much. Why you ask? Well, despite the fact that crime is incredibly low here, and we buy their stuff giving quite a boost to their economy, we also "block their view of the Mississippi River when the tourists come to town". In other words because we're here, we draw tourists who crowd their streets with pedestrians during the month of July when the pageant is here. In Nauvoo, the medium age is 51.6 with 20% under the age of 18 and 30% over the age of 65. The residents don't want to move, and they just want their small town life back. They don't care about the boost to the economy because they are largely retired or on welfare. My discouragement came because we can't fix anything. We are simply at an impasse.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Another issue is that when the Nauvoo Temple was rebuilt in 2002, it was constructed after the historic temple completed in 1846 just a couple of months before the LDS people were run out. The deal is...the temple is huge! This 54 thousand square foot white lime stone building with round windows and magnificently carved sun, moon, and stars, is a sight to see. Highway 96 runs through the tiny town of Nauvoo. There is one main turn in the road and that turn is where the temple sits. The problem is not the temple itself because it is well manicured and gorgeous, but it drove the property taxes up for surrounding properties. Then in 2007-8 when property prices fell all over the country, they fell here too. Now home values are down, but taxes stayed high. This is certainly problematic for the citizens here with the vast majority of them on a fixed income. Again, we are at an impasse. Only good government could fix the tax problem and that doesn't seem to be a commodity that we have these days.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Interesting phenomena: I learned this week that typically the surrounding communities don't like Mormons, but they do like the LDS people. Hmmmm... If we tell them that Mormons and LDS are the same, will they decide they don't like the LDS either or will they decide that they like the Mormons after all? </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Actually, did you know that the term "Mormon" was a slanderous nickname given to a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints starting as early as the 1830's? Did you also know that the term "Christian" was a slanderous nickname used for a follower of Christ after Christ's death? Obviously, it's all what you make of it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">So here is what I think the problem is. In general, people get an idea or view of something in their heads, and they stick to it regardless of facts that contradict their thinking. Here are a few examples.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">While at the Kibbe Museum last week, I asked one of the workers why there is still so much negative publicity about Joseph Smith. She said, that it was largely because Joseph was trying to use his large legion of soldiers to take over the country. (Even though 175 years have passed with no concrete evidence whatsoever this rumor continues to circulate.)</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">She also claimed it was the "polygamy thing". (Maybe it's me, but after last week's ruling by the Supreme Court, I don't think what members of the LDS faith did in response to the death and carnage left by opposing mobs is outrageous. How else do you have posterity faster than you're being killed off by your enemies? What do you think?) </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I asked an 11 year old at the Kibbe Museum if she had ever visited the Carthage Jail. She said, "Yes, once, and it was creepy". Then she described a pile of bones that was kept in the corner of the jail. (Hmmm... what could she possibly be talking about? Remember we lived there for three months last summer.) </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Some of our friends have refused to read the Book of Mormon because their church leaders have told them that it is evil and devilish and that even reading it can mess up their minds. (Hmmmm)</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">At a political caucus in 2012, we learned astonishing things from our neighbors about the LDS faith. Basically, they feared that a Mormon President would follow Mormon leader's direction rather than make decisions best for the country. Did you know that we're all a bunch of sheep? We also learned that they still think Mormon women are ill treated even abused with impunity. (I think they have us mixed up with some other church.) We heard rhetoric that the Mormons are way out in left field with talk of seeing angels and having gold bibles. (I suppose the parting of the Red Sea sounds pretty far fetched to a Buddhist or a virgin birth sounds ludicrous to a Jew.) </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">In 2012, three million Republicans got it in their head that no way under any circumstances would they ever vote for a Mormon President, so they stayed home on election day or they voted for a white horse candidate who could never win the election. But they wanted to make a point---no Mormon President. Well, they made their point and now the whole country suffers for it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Human nature is fascinating to me. Perhaps, conservative America will save themselves next election and get behind the most likely candidate who can win the whole election. But it doesn't look like collaboration is in their future. I can't think about it....makes me crazy.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"> We went to another little museum here in Nauvoo near Peter's Place. The museum also had copies of Joseph and Hyrum's death masks. People have asked about the death masks and I referred them back to Salt Lake City. Sorry for the misdirection. They are right here in Nauvoo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Commemorating the deaths of Joseph and Hyrum.</span><br />
Every year we honor Joseph and Hyrum on June 27th. Last year I wrote quite extensively about it so I won't say too much this time.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">I will say that it was a very nice program. The most memorable part to me was when President Gibbons spoke. He talked about Christ first. Approximately 30% of the world claim to be Christian but not all of them believe that Christ is the Son of God. President Gibbons pointed out that either He is the son of God or He isn't. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">A much smaller percent of the world has a testimony that Joseph Smith saw God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ. Again, either Joseph Smith was a prophet of God who talked with God and translated the Book of Mormon, or he wasn't and he is one of the greatest charlatan's ever.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Christ asked Peter, "Whom say ye that I am?" <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/16?lang=eng">Matthew 16:13-17</a> Peter answered "Thou art the Christ the Son of the Living God." Christ replied, "Blessed art thou Simon Barjona, for flesh and blood hath not reveal it into thee, but my Father which is in Heaven."</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;">How can you know truth as Peter knew? </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/acts/2?lang=eng">Acts 2:37-43</a> (They were pricked in their heart)</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/16?lang=eng">1 Corinthians 12:3</a> (n<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">o man can </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">say</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;"> that Jesus is the </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">Lord</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">, but by the </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">Holy Ghost</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">.)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/11?lang=eng">3 Nephi 11:46</a> (</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">And thus will the Father bear record of me, and the </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">Holy Ghost</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;"> will bear record unto him of the Father and me; for the Father, and I, and the Holy Ghost are </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">one</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">You too can receive personal revelation through the Holy Ghost and know whether or not Christ is the Son of God, or if the atonement can truly save us from our sins.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">You can know for yourself if Joseph Smith was a man of God or one of the worst men to ever walk the earth.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/9?lang=eng">Doctrine and Covenants 9:8</a> (</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">But, behold, I say unto you, that you must </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">study</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;"> it out in your </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">mind</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">; then you must </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">ask</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;"> me if it be right, and if it is right I will cause that your </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">bosom</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;"> shall </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">burn</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;"> within you; therefore, you shall </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">feel</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;"> that it is right.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;">I invite you to ask sincerely in prayer for Heavenly Father to make the truth known to you. I invite you to read the Book of Mormon and take note on how it makes you feel. I'm still reading it in English alongside a Spanish version. Whenever I read I feel peace; I feel happy; I know that it is the work of God. </span><br />
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My niece, Arick Connor and nephew, Andrew Brown came to Nauvoo with their families.</div>
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Another Nauvoo miracle: Andrew decided to bring his family to Nauvoo over a year ago. While planning his trip, he threw the idea out to his half siblings who are spread all over America to meet him in Nauvoo. The invitation was accepted, and all six siblings met in Nauvoo gathering together for the first time in fifteen years. The cousins blended and the brotherly and sisterly love was so thick I think I could have cut it with a knife. So sweet....Thank you Nauvoo!</div>
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Niece, Arick, at the visitor's center.</div>
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My sister, Rachel Gardner, husband, and her youngest two sons also came to Nauvoo this week.<br />
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Elder Johnson had them mesmerized while giving them a demonstration in the brick yard as shown in the picture below. The family reported that they loved the tours we gave even though they don't actually look that impressed. What do you think?<br />
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<span style="color: red;">This week on our <span style="font-size: x-large;">Preparation Day</span> as we call it, we took four of the full- time young sister missionaries first to lunch and then to the Kibbe Museum in Carthage.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">The Kibbe Museum is a neighbor to our Carthage Jail Visitor's Center in Carthage. Numerous times last summer we tried to visit but whenever we were off work, the museum was closed and vice versa. Our visit this week was delayed again as the main tour guide was on vacation and it didn't open until noon. However, after getting groceries in Keokuk, we perservered and were able to tour the museum.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">It's much bigger than it looks, and we were amazed at what we found. Alice Kibbe is the woman that the museum was named after. As a professor of the Carthage College in the late 1800's, she had quite a collection of random but interesting items from rare ocean shells, to newspaper articles from the 1840's when the Mormon's were here. We also saw models of the Abraham Lincoln Arch erected in Chicago in 1865 as well as the train and casket that President Lincoln's body was taken in around the country. Did you know the practice of embalming humans came into practice in America during the Civil War when deceased soldiers were taken back to their homes for burial? Abe Lincoln was embalmed several times during the 20 day trip around the country after his murder.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Okay, you're right, I was most interested in fact even fascinated with the newspaper articles printed during the 1840's describing the conflict with the Mormons. I was so fascinated that I purchased copies of everything they had available. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"> John Taylor was editor of the Nauvoo Neighbor and in the paper mentioned above, he defended the church and it's leaders against the writings of Thomas Sharpe as well as clarified church doctrine.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">One paper I still hope to get soon was distributed by the Warsaw Signal on June 28, 1844-the day after the death of Joseph and Hyrum Smith. However, the editor didn't get the story right. Four men were<b> not</b> shot and killed in Carthage--only two-- leaving two witnesses to declare the rest of the truth... Neither had the Mormon's come to Carthage to help Joseph and Hyrum escape like Sharpe claimed, but the prisoners had been shot in cold blood while incarcerated illegally and with a promise from Governor Ford of Illinois that Joseph would be provided safety and a fair trial. Hmmmm, since in those days it took at least half a week to set the type and print a one page newspaper, how did the paper appear merely 14 hours after the shooting? Is it coincidence that there were all sorts of falsehoods? Sounds more like self incrimination to me!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"> The Nauvoo Expositor below printed the paper that put Joseph in Carthage Jail. Printed right here in Nauvoo, (the old printshop is currently a furniture store) it was full of horrific lies. I purchased this paper but could not stomach much due to the offensive topic and language. Elder Johnson read more of it. Here are a few of the debaucheries:</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">1. Basically, the Mormon men were made out to be guilty of seducing young orphan girls. Spiritual wives is the term used. The broken girls were said to be left lifeless and in ruins.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">What is the truth? Only about 5% of the Mormon men (between about 1843 and 1890) were ordained to practice plural marriage. No one could practice it without prior approval. The fact was, during that time period there were many more women than men in the church and many women would have been left without a husband and children had plural marriage not been instituted. Husbands were required to love, cherish, provide, and care for all wives and all their children. Not all marriages were consummated, but rather were in name only to provide support for the women and children. </span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">In other words, the practice of plural wives practiced by the Mormons was nothing what-so-ever like what the Nauvoo Expositor described. (I'm curious what percent of the current 15.3 million members in the church today have ancestry connected with plural wives. I bet it's really high because we talk about it from time to time amongst ourselves and many if not most of the members claim to have ancestors that practiced it. I've never heard even one story like the one in the Nauvoo Expositor.)</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">2. The Nauvoo Expositor claimed that much of Joseph's activities were done in secret--specifically excommunicating individuals without their knowledge or receiving a fair church trial, or marrying women secretly and leaving them alone and broken.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">None of this was true. In Doctrine and Covenants 28:13 ( Mormon scriptures) it says: "For all things must be done in order, and by common consent in the church, by the prayer of faith." There are many church records to show that the actions taken by church counsels were performed with love, prudence, and transparency. Marriages were the same.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">3. Sylvester Emmons who is mentioned above claimed that the Mormons believed and taught that there are many gods who fight amongst themselves. Emmons denounced this teaching as blasphemous and therefore worthy of being eliminated from off the face of the earth.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Hmmmm, I've been a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints my whole life. I've been to hundreds of meetings, taught hundreds of lessons to all ages, read all the standard works as well as any history I can get my hands on, and never once heard this doctrine. I can safely say that it's simply not true. We believe in God the Father, his son Jesus Christ and in the Holy Ghost. The three are so much in agreement that we refer to them as "one in purpose". Does that sound like fighting?</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Anyway, what if it were true that we believe in many gods who fight amongst each other...what of it? Sounds more like Greek mythology to me. Please, help me understand. If a particular doctrine is politically correct in one eara in a certain part of the world, why is it worthy of death and extermination in another? Is it dangerous to society? It is certainly incorrect but that is a matter of opinion I think.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">4. Joseph was accused of usurping political power over the people in the surrounding communities. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">A little background: Though the Mormons had escaped the Missouri mobs after the Extermination Order in October, 1838, enemies were still trying to extradite Joseph and bring him back to Missouri where they could kill him. This was common knowledge even to Joseph. One time, while visiting Emma's brother in an outlying town in Illinois, Joseph was taken by Missourians and while on their way to Missouri, soldiers from the Nauvoo Legion escorted Joseph to Monmouth, Illinois instead where he appeared before a judge and was freed. This action was used to paint a picture that Joseph used the Nauvoo Legion for his own selfish interests and seemly proof that Joseph was thus capable of abusing the authority given him as Lieutenant General of the legion. It's kind of a twisted way of saying, "You're not allowed to use the Nauvoo Legion to save your own life even when law is broken in the attempt to kill you." </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Bottom line was that the Mormon's were a problem in the political world. They voted against issues that supported slavery; they voted for candidates who were kind to them (Hmmm, is that a bad thing?) while enemies voted for candidates who promised that they would do all they could to destroy Mormonism. Remember there were three political parties in 1844--The Whigs, Democrats, and Anti-Mormon Party. (Looks like discrimination and persecution was legal in those day.)</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">More: Nauvoo was growing faster than any other city in Illinois and rivaling Chicago in population. New converts were coming in by the boat loads from Europe and other countries regularly. Converts were also coming in droves from across America. This was all frightening to the citizens who were depending on control over their new settlements. This new and melting pot of people was confusing and threatening. The Mormons learned to do business between themselves or with people who were fair and kind to them. (Heaven forbid!) Land speculators were angry and upset financially, when the Mormons refused to buy land if it were outlandishly over priced. (Imagine that!) </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Still more: Selling newspapers was good business. Thomas Sharpe in Warsaw was a good story teller and had money to make. Related to financial concerns settlers in surrounding communities wanted the Mormon's out of the way if they couldn't be controlled. Spreading derogatory falsehoods through the printed word was an easy way to do that. With anti-Mormons working with Thomas Sharpe, mean and slanderous rumors did fly. Also, preachers all over the world were loosing good members in their congregations to this new rival church. There was plenty of financial motive for initiating hatred toward this strange religion.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Okay, so there you have a mouthfull. Next posting I'll relate these old beliefs to why people around the world today are still leery of a growing church that promotes concepts like living a good life, following Jesus Christ in all he taught, obeying the laws of the land, and being accountable for your own behavior- to name just a few. I think I can shed just a little more light on why America would reject a Mormon President even at the risk of re-electing a President that they are diabolically opposed to. Stay tuned.</span><br />
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In the mean time, I invite you to read <a href="http://mormon.org/">Mormon.org</a> and look up some of your most pressing questions about the church. Remember, you wouldn't interview Judas Iscariot to determine Christ's teachings so go to a site that will give you truth about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. There certainly are a great deal of twisted and convoluted teachings about it so get the facts straight from the source.<br />
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My brother, John Broderick, and his family spent a few days with us.</div>
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The Nauvoo Pageant hasn't started yet, so Elder Johnson and I were still able to give family members tours of most of the historic sites.</div>
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When two year old Landin got to Nauvoo he kept asking where Joseph Smith was. The next day he reported to me that Joseph Smith didn't die....He woke up! What do children know that we adults miss?</div>
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are so amazingly talented. These missionaries have to try out and out amongst over 300 candidates, 24 of them are chosen. They arrived in Nauvoo in the middle of May and currently perform several times each day in different productions.</div>
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There is another group of 24 that make up the Nauvoo Brass Band. They too were tried and proven before arriving in Nauvoo.</div>
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The Nauvoo Brass Band come to Pioneer Pastimes twice each day inviting the kids to join them in a parade around the park.</div>
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We love it...makes for an added dimension to all of Nauvoo to have them serenade us.</div>
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When our daughter, Tiffanie, and her family came to Nauvoo, we arranged to take a handcart trip. A one, two, or three mile trip is offered which includes wading through water, steep hills to take the cart up and down while pushing through beautiful Nauvoo.</div>
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We had a terrific time!</div>
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We also took the kids on a carriage ride pulled by horses.</div>
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Of course we took the family to Carthage Jail and gave them a stellar tour. Some things we'll never forget even though it's been awhile since we served in Carthage.</div>
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Our grandson, Keagan, was selected to join the actors on stage at the end.</div>
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We had a little talent show of our own with our voice teacher, Chenille Saunders and both families--Huntley and Saunders.<br />
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Most of the kids performed as well.</div>
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We ended with Chenille singing Fourteen G. We somehow missed getting a picture of Chenille. I suppose we were all so mesmerized that we forgot. Chenille is amazing. One of our grand-kids said, "She made opera sound good....I didn't know I liked opera."</div>
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I'm kind of thinking I'm probably not going to be singing like her any time soon. Oh well, we can't help but improve with her guidance.</div>
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Where is Joseph and Hyrum buried you ask? Well they were initially moved around in an attempt to hide them from the mobs that killed them. Their original caskets were buried in the town cemetery with sand in them while their bodies were buried in the basement of the half finished Nauvoo House near the Smith home in Nauvoo. Apparently, the mobs were threatening to dig up the bodies and desecrate them. How mean can you be?</div>
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The bodies were later buried on Emma Smiths property somewhere when the Nauvoo House was completed. After the Keokuk damn was built, the bodies were dug up and relocated under these cement head stones. Actually, I think the bodies are all three encased in cement so there won't be any grave robbing without a great deal of noise.</div>
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Joseph Smith's parents, Joseph Smith Senior and Lucy Mack Smith are also buried near the Smith Homestead.</div>
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Here are some facts to make your head spin. The month of May this year we had over 5,000 guests not counting Carthage.<br />
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We currently have 775 people scheduled to come to Nauvoo in June. They are primarily youth groups and large family reunions. That doesn't include any groups less than about 100. The numbers for June will probably at a minimum triple.<br />
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Large groups scheduled in July total 1,475 people. Looks like we need to steady ourselves for another tidal wave of tourists coming that month.<br />
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August will slow down dramatically. Only 321 in large groups are scheduled that month.<br />
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By September, we will be packing up to come home. Looks like summer is about over don't you think?<br />
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My invitation to you is....come to Nauvoo sometime in your life. If you haven't already come, will you make it a goal? Set a time and make it happen. Everything is free, we don't take donations either and it can change your life forever.Amy Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10475701177816461147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854804719021337221.post-48457535510178078192015-05-25T06:07:00.000-07:002015-05-25T06:07:14.456-07:00Can't help myself take two...Spring in Nauvoo is breath taking, and Guests are arriving by the hundreds or at least dozens.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Peonies are blooming all around Nauvoo.</div>
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These were taken at the Sarah Granger Kimball home where the Relief Society women's organization was organized in 1842.</div>
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Note that along the road and between the growing crops are beautifully manicured carpets of grass.</div>
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Between houses and fields are more rolling hills of manicured carpet. Remember, that I was raised in Phoenix, Arizona where brown is the norm and green comes in colored rock or spray paint.</div>
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This is not a golf course! No, it's just a normal Nauvoo neighborhood.</div>
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The grape vines above have plastic coverings to prevent roaming deer from eating away at the plants. Note the grass carpet between the rows of grape plants.</div>
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<span style="color: red;">We've had hundreds of school kids come to Nauvoo on field trips this month. This will be the last week since school will be out. However, as you see below, the kids have been replaced by families--lots and lots of them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Thought for the week. </span><br />
Remember the Parable of the Prodigal Son that Christ taught and is recorded in the New Testament? (Check out the reenactment at the link <a href="https://www.lds.org/bible-videos/videos/the-prodigal-son?lang=eng">Prodigal Son</a> .)<br />
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Well today in Sunday School, we studied the parable and spent quite a bit of time talking about the jealous older brother. I thought about the approach we took with our children when they showed signs of jealousy. It didn't always work perfectly, but our underlying philosophy was to reinforce the child's value when they were feeling jealous of someone else. Think how the father responded in the video above. He was gentle and kind reassuring his older obedient son that he will be well rewarded for his good choices. All that the father hath shall be given to him while his younger rebellious brother will get far less. However, all can rejoice over the prodigal son's return.<br />
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I think that in general most children feel insecure about their acceptance and self worth more than they feel jealous and don't want others to be successful or rewarded. Hence people generally respond better by addressing the "real" problem and building them up and reinforcing their value. It's probably true for adults too, don't you think?<br />
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So, my challenge to you and myself is to look in the mirror before attempting to correct anyone else. Then, focus on others' importance and value.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Inspiring quotes from Prophets:</span><br />
Here are a few notes I took at church today.<br />
If today you are a little better then you were yesterday, then that is enough. (Elder Bednar)<br />
If envy were an illness, all the world would be ill. (Didn't catch the author)<br />
Life is to be enjoyed not just endured. (President Hinckley)<br />
Happiness is in your own hands (Elder Holland)<br />
Fill your mind with thoughts that give hope. (Didn't catch the author)<br />
Never let a problem to be solved be more important than a person to be loved. (Didn't catch the author)Amy Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10475701177816461147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854804719021337221.post-8533484449237146522015-05-17T18:52:00.006-07:002015-05-18T04:26:13.070-07:00Nauvoo Missionaries aplenty, Ramus Illinois, and The Cokeville Miracle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Remember a few months ago when I reported that we only had 115 missionaries here in Nauvoo? Well, that has definitely changed. Below are pictures of the welcome breakfast we hold to welcome new missionaries. The Young Performing Missionaries (YPM's) are here and mayhem will break loose in a week when they start performing. The "Yippems" (YPM's) as Elder Johnson and I call them, are amazingly talented. I heard reports that there were over 300 candidates trying to qualify to come to Nauvoo as a YPM this year.<br />
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Two of our son's came to Nauvoo with their families. What a treat for us to have a break from crazy busy to be reinvigorated with family fun. While they were here, we visited a place that used to be called Ramus in which Elder Johnson's Great-Great-Grandfather, Benjamin Franklin Johnson, settled in the 1840's. It was renamed Macedonia after the LDS people left in 1846. and today it is called Webster.<br />
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This is the site of the very first meeting house built by the Latter-day Saints in Ramus. The Mormons built temples, a Mission Training Center, Cultural Halls, 2,500 homes, etc. etc. etc. but they met as a congregation in groves of trees rather than build a church. This chaple was the one and only one until the saints got to Utah. That's an interesting fact I think considering how many LDS churches there are in the world today.</div>
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Ramus is about thirty minutes from Nauvoo in today's driving time. It is actually quite close to Carthage where Elder Johnson and I served our first four months.<br />
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The church above was reconstructed next to the original church using some of the material from the old chapel.<br />
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The plaque below sits on the property near the cornerstone markers.</div>
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In the last few years of Joseph Smith's life, he spent quite a bit of time in Ramus as he tried to avoid the angry mobs who sought his life.<br />
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The plaque below stands a few blocks from the site of the old church. </div>
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In Ramos at Benjamin Franklin Johnson's home, two sections of the Doctrine of Covenants were revealed, Sections 130 and 131. Benjamin was 13 years younger than Joseph Smith and Joseph fondly called him "Benny".</div>
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Sure love family! We'll have more visitors in a few weeks.</div>
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Grandchildren visiting our old home, Carthage Jail.</div>
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Wagon rides are a winner for all the guests.</div>
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Below is a picture of one of the "groves" where the saints met for church instead of an enclosed building. It is in the flats of historic Nauvoo near the stage where the pageants are performed.<br />
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We also visited the Historic Nauvoo Cemetery.</div>
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<span style="color: red;">A couple of months ago, the movie producer TC Christiansen along with prior missionary in Nauvoo and principal of the Cokeville Elementary school, Max Excell, came to Nauvoo. We were allowed to preview the movie coming out in your town <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn20a71m45M"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Cokeville Miracle</span></a> followed by a question and answer session. I feel that a tremendous effort was made to tell the story as experienced by those involved with very little embellishment. (The joke about the dog named Peaches did not happen.)</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Amazing! Heart Rending! and Miraculous! </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Will you go see Cokeville Miracle? </span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">You'll love it I think!</span>Amy Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10475701177816461147noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854804719021337221.post-15680993348929751432015-05-03T19:46:00.002-07:002015-05-03T20:08:03.281-07:00Can't help myself....more spring, Pioneer Pastimes, and Sewing Up a Storm<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: magenta;">With all the new missionaries in training, my usual lunch spot in the conference room was unavailable so I took my lunch outside.</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">Can't say I was disappointed! </span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">Lunch in the Women's Garden in the spring....can't beat that!</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;"> The bronze statues were primarily sculptured by Dennis Smith, my mother's cousin.</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;"> The garden is sort of out of the way and I hadn't visited it since the snow melted.</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">Love has overcome hate here in Nauvoo. The prophet, Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum were shot and killed by mob violence. Sadly the killing didn't end when over 12,000 people were driven from their beautiful city and warm homes in the middle of winter. Now Mormon missionaries have returned to Nauvoo with love, joy, and celebration for life and the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. It's all true. I invite you to find this out for yourself.</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.mormon.org/">How can I learn more about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">The Light of Christ touches all people until they refuse to listen. Then that light is extinguished. Do yourself a favor and listen to that still small voice within you and allow the Savior of the world to lift your load and bring you peace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Pioneer Pastimes</span> is open for school tours which is almost every day this month: We are the site leaders and work there part of every day except for our preparation day which is now Thursday.</div>
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We have costumes that the families can use to dress up for pictures. Isn't this the cutest family?</div>
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Check out the middle top section of this picture. Do you by chance see the handles to a rake and broom? Yes, Elder Johnson was trying to knock out some rings out of the tree. We suggest you don't use tools are needed to retrieve outdoor play toys.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">As I mentioned earlier, we have new missionaries aplenty who all need costumes for the sites and plays. In the past month, I personally have sewn 21 dresses and twelve aprons. It's exhausting but rewarding.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Below are shots in my new home away from home. As you see we are well equipped with equipment galore.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"> Below are the surging machines each with a different color for quick seam finishing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"> We have worked all winter to begin preparing the dresses for completion. Skirts have the pockets and pleats sewn in. The sleeves have also been sewn complete with cuffs, button and button holes as well as grow tucks. This planning ahead has made it all possible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Grandchildren to spur us on.</span><br />
Granddaughter, Avry took a sculpturing class. She named this creation, "Amy". Aren't I beautiful?<br />
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These two cuties are the sweetest things in Chicago don't you think?<br />
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<br />Amy Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10475701177816461147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854804719021337221.post-30422414767003239922015-04-26T18:38:00.000-07:002015-04-27T01:16:48.584-07:00More Spring, Richardson's Point, and a Mill Stone<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Nauvoo Temple in the spring!</div>
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The pictures below were actually taken in Quincy this week. What a lovely town!</div>
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Quincy with our friends, the Udahls.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">See details: <a href="http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/il3.htm">Charley's Run</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">All of the Nauvoo missionaries met at Richardson's Point this week. I had no idea what part it played in Mormon history so let me catch you up.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">About 1,200 acres of this area was homesteaded between 1840-1845 by various members of the Richardson and Stewart families from Kentucky and Ohio, respectively. Benjamin Franklin Stewart was married to Polly Richardson, cementing ties between the families. Polly's brother, George, probably owned the actual land on which Richardson's Point is located. When Benjamin and Polly joined the Mormons in 1842, several family members also joined the Church and most eventually traveled West with the pioneers. They were all living on the land when Brigham Young halted the Mormon exodus at this location in March 1846 due to heavy rain. The travelers had been in route for about a month after leaving Nauvoo that winter.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"> The Mormons in Nauvoo, Il, had planned to abandon their city in mid-1846 under mounting persecution, but violent mobs forced them to start leaving in February, when the Mississippi River was frozen- over. Thousands crossed into Iowa and camped for a time near the river before slowly moving west. On March 7th, they could go no further because their heavy wagons were sinking in the mud. They remained bogged down at Richardson's Point for nearly two weeks, but the absence of mobs gave the travelers a welcome measure of peace. While in camp, the Saints (as Church members are called) welcomed three babies into the world, set up a traveling post office, organized wagon companies, and worked on neighboring farms for food and supplies. William Pitts' brass band played for dances and also earned $55 by performing in Keosauqua, IA. The deaths of Edwin Little and James Tanner cast a pall over the camp, but the pioneers were determined to move forward. As rains lifted by the 18th of March, the main camp of several thousand people moved on, still others leaving Nauvoo would stop briefly at Richarson's Point for the next several months.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">James Monroe Tanner 1845-46 was the son of Sidney and Louisa Tanner and descendant of Mayflower pilgrims, James died at 15 months from "inflammation of the brain." His mother died a few months later near Council Bluffs, Iowa.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Edwin Sobieski Little, 1816-1846 was Nephew to Mormon leader, Brigham Young. Edwin fell in an icy river helping his uncle with a wagon.. He became ill, likely with pneumonia, and died on 18th of March 1845. He left behind a wife, Harriet, and infant son, George. Both made it safely to the West.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"> There was a beautiful and peaceful spirit about the place. An excerpt from the dedicatory prayer said, "Let this be a place of peace and tranquility, a place of meditation, a place for silent prayers to be offered and answered, a place where understanding of spiritual things may increase."</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"> Today, the Klodt Family has owned this land for generations, beginning with the first purchase in 1895. Brad Klodt now manages Klodt Family Farms, but his family and neighbors have long felt the importance of preserving local history by honoring this as a burial site. This area was cleared and prepared with the help of many friends for the benefit of all who visit.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"> The Klodt Family joined with friends, neighbors, and special guests to dedicate Richardson's Point as a private historical site in memory of the pioneers who blazed a trail to the West. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">While Richardson's Point honors the dead, and while many pioneers died during their long journey, it would be a mistake to think the Mormon Trail was full of sorrow. In fact, the mortality rate for Mormon Pioneers averaged about 3.5% for the period 1845-68. compared to 2.9% in 1850 for the United States as a whole and closer to 6 % for travelers on the Oregon and California trails. When the cause of death was listed, cholera was the greatest culprit, followed by other illnesses or accidents. However, most pioneers wrote about their experiences with joy, hope, and faith in their future and faith in God. More than 60,000 people migrated West on the Mormon Trail.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;">Remember what Christ said in reference to the state of a person who offends little children? </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;">"But whoso shall offend one of these little ones, which believe in me, it were better for him that a mill stone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depths of the sea." </span><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;">(Matthew 18:6)</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">This is a mill stone found in the Mississippi River during the Nauvoo restoration era. It is on display behind the Skovil Bakery here in Nauvoo. It's kinda big don't you think? Shows how much the Savior loves little children and how sad he must be when they are harmed.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;">How are you treating others especially children?</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;">What can you do better? </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;">Will you make those changes starting now?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow; font-size: x-large;">Humanitarian projects</span> are complete and we have turned our attention to preparing for summer guests. Here is our final count with Sister Susan Clement proudly holding the numbers.<br />
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<span style="text-align: start;"> We have touched lives all over the mid-west! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: start;">Remember....by small and simple things are great things brought to pass.</span></div>
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<br />Amy Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10475701177816461147noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854804719021337221.post-52337463877089586852015-04-19T10:01:00.001-07:002015-04-19T14:29:43.089-07:00Just breath in the beauty! Yoder's furniture<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
While Denver is still pushing snow around, this is what we're seeing!</div>
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I think spring is my favorite time of year here in Nauvoo or at least one of the top four favorite seasons. :)</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">In church today</span>, some of the new missionaries talked. One of them compared being in Nauvoo to her experience with new born kittens. She remembers watching many batches of baby kittens stumble around with their eyes closed until that magical day when they grow up enough to open them. She said, "Here we are in Nauvoo singing and having lines in Rendezvous, giving tours in historical sites, and teaching Sunday school, and we still have our eyes closed. So true!</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Other funny comments I wrote in my notes today are:</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">1. Having a memory is really over rated. You can get along just fine without it. </span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">2. You don't need to have a memory to become one.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">3. Now that I'm getting close to age 70, I'm thinking that in another decade or so, I'll not be middle aged any more.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">4. Never allow your birth certificate to expire. We need to stay active in the lives of family and friends, take pictures, record experiences and make memories.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Most important concept that I took notes on can be found in it's entirety. Check it out!</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">Lastly, we went to Yoder's furniture store this week. It was incredible seeing beautiful wood products made by the Amish people without the use of electricity. </span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">I wanted to buy something...anything. Elder Johnson suggested something edible so we wouldn't have to pack it up and take it home next fall. Well....I found brown eggs collected on an Amish farm. They are actually pretty tasty and won't take up any space.</span><br />
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Amy Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10475701177816461147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854804719021337221.post-71218723011367597902015-04-12T14:48:00.000-07:002015-04-12T14:48:46.315-07:00Awe Struck New Missionaries, and the Parable of the Sower<span style="font-size: x-large;">More new missionaries:</span><br />
When walking the streets of Old Nauvoo, it's pretty easy to tell who is new. We recognize and connect with that overwhelming look of..."WHAT HAVE WE GOTTEN OURSELVES INTO?" expression worn with full vigor by the newbies.<br />
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"Not to worry", we tell them. You get to be new for a full week before the next set of missionaries arrive. Then you'll be the trainers- so pay attention. Elder Stroud, a new arrival as of three weeks ago, said today that he's already done many things that are far outside of his comfort zone. We answer, "You haven't seen anything yet! Welcome to Nauvoo!" The director of Rendezvous In Old Nauvoo said that so many of us need a badge of courage for doing all we've been asked. Almost all of us are doing things we've never done nor dared do in our entire lives, (and we're not exactly young.)<br />
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We've gone from 104 missionaries to 175 the past few weeks. They all need to be outfitted. I've been sewing up a storm and even taking items home to keep up. This week I've graduated to three days in the sewing room. The pressure is on.<br />
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We've also lost the title of Family Living Center Site Leaders because we're getting ready to head up Pioneer Past-Times Site Leaders. School tours will start in a couple of weeks. We currently have about 25 schools scheduled to visit Old Nauvoo in April and May. Lunch is usually spent at Pioneer Past-times so we open it just for schools. It will be open full time after Memorial Day.<br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="font-size: large;">Why do we, LDS missionaries, pay our own way and put ourselves in terrifying situations? Elder Faust said it best,"Many nameless people with gifts equal only to five loaves and two small fishes magnify their callings and serve without attention or recognition, feeding literally thousands... A major reason this church has grown from its humble beginnings to its current strength is the faithfulness and devotion of millions of humble and devoted people who have only five loaves and two small fishes to offer in the service of the Master. They have largely surrendered their own interests and in so doing have found 'the peace of God, which passeth all understanding'.</span></span><br />
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After Buchei's last Rendezvous (their mission of 18 months is finished), we met at Annie's Custard for pie and custard ice cream.</div>
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...but as you see, it came out alright.</div>
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<span style="color: red;">One of my favorite talks in General Conference this year was given by Dallin H Oaks called "The Parable of the Sower". <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); font-family: 'Helam Slab', 'Roboto Slab', Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; line-height: 28px;">It is up to each of us to set our priorities and to do the things that make our soil good and our harvest plentiful.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> <span style="color: magenta;">Happy Easter!</span></span><br />
<span style="color: magenta;">We went for a walk after General Conference today. Look at what we found!</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">If you haven't seen the church's Easter video. Do it now! </span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Every year, the missionaries sponsor an experience with a prairie fire. We let an acre of open space grow grass all summer and then dry out all winter.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"> We invite the community to join us with a free hot dog dinner.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"> Then the burning begins.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"> It only lasted for 3-4 minutes.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"> We're told that prairie fires can move as fast as 70 miles per hour.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: blue; font-size: x-large;">Goodbye to three more missionary couples... some of our favorites that we'll miss dreadfully.</span></div>
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