Week SIX: Nauvoo and the Great Storm

Hello All! I am alive and well! This week has been a good one! I had four more friends from home come visit! It was so much fun to have them here in Nauvoo!

This photo was sent to us by friends visiting Nauvoo

NAUVOO SINGERS CAST
(E. Peterson, E. Cottom,  E. Tregeagle, E. Baker, E.Needham
Sis. Hammond, Sis. Ashby, Sis. McCurdy, Sis. Bills)
photo credit: Sister Hammond's Mom (who visited Nauvoo this week)

(Sis. Bills, Sis. Hammond, Sis. Ashby, Sis. McCurdy, E. Tregeagle, E. Cottom)

You are probably wondering about this title. This week we had an insane rain and wind storm come out of NOWHERE! It took 5 seconds before it was raining cats and dogs. Needless to say, I got very, very, very WET. We ended up having to chill at the Visitors Center for a while while the storm cleared. There also happened to be a giant youth group cooped up in the building with us. I know everything happens for a reason and many of us were able to have amazing missionary opportunities with the youth.

These photos are not from last week, but from a previous week when Nauvoo was just as wet!

They were on their way to do baptisms for the dead at the temple.

"A raindrop fell in my eyeball!"

Sister Jackson

Sister Smith and Sister McCurdy

Sister Isaacson

Sister Hoagland (companion)

Update with the voice; it is still gone. I am trying my best to do all that I can to get it back. It is really, really frustrating at times, but I know that hopefully, I will get it back soon.

More "fun" health stuff! Friday, after the storm, we had a heat wave slide in here in Nauvoo. Friday night of "Sunset", I wasn't feeling too hot... or should I say I WAS feeling too hot and ended up with heatstroke and almost vomited backstage. I had to miss out on the last number (which wasn't a big deal because all I do is the Hawaiian Hula dance). I was so sad that I also had to miss out on "Trail of Hope", but I know everything happens for a reason. They dropped off Sister Merrill (who is our amazing Sister missionary on the drums) to be my companion, while my actual comp was doing my part on the Trail. Before I was asleep, Sister Merrill and I had a really cool conversation. She had been having [some of] the same [challenges] I had a couple of weeks ago. Talking to her helped her realize that the same thing [was happening] to her and realized answers to the prayers she had been seeking for. The next afternoon at lunch she thanked me for helping her and that she really needed that. Without me getting heatstroke and us being put in that situation, we would have never had time to have that conversation.

"Sunset by the Mississippi"

Thinking about Suzi today and how much I miss her and love her. I still sometimes cannot believe she is gone.  [Today would have been her Aunt Suzi's 35th birthday.  She passed a little over a year ago from complications with the flu...a cancer survivor, twice over, she was a true example of long-suffering and fortitude.]

I hope Dakota is doing well! I love her so much! She is so sweet! [Her little sister, Dakota, had brain surgery the same morning we dropped Sister Ashby off at the airport.  She had some complications after surgery and is still on the mend.] 

Well, I am out of time! Love and miss you all!