ACCIDENT AT THE

EXODUS RE-ENACTMENT 2012

     These are pix of the wagon that E/Heaton was in when the team ran away and bounced Pres. Salmon off.  E/Heaton, with his EMT skills, was able to give the injured elder immediate help.  The pix show the damage to the run-away wagon.

Happy Times! A Visit From the Coxes

Grandma gets

to hold

"Izzy Bee. "

(Baby Elizabeth)

Emma insisted on this photo. 

It is a picture of her and Joseph--

See?  Emma and Joseph.

Cox girls on the temple grounds.

Rachel, Esther, Elizabeth,

Ruth, and Emma.

By the Joseph and Hyrum statues.

Emma, Esther, Izzy Bee, Ruthie, Rachel

Grandpa after a day at work.

     We had a great time with the Coxes.  We watched the Pageant together.  They went to Rendezvous and Sunset.  They rode on the wagons and visited many of the sites. They even got to sleep in the Ashby house (our home away from home).  

Sunset By the MississippiWe always start our performances with prayer.

Watching the action.

E/Heaton is singing with the best of them.

Let's get on with the show-wo-wo-wo!

The Mosquitoes: E/Endter, E/Holmstead, E/McBride, E/Wise.

Young performing Missionary--E/ Devin Nielson.  He is son of Tonya Brinkerhoff Nielson, who played ball with Holly at Valley High School.

The Whole Cast of Sunset by the Mississippi.

       These photos were taken by Joseph Watkins, who is here with his fiance, Kimberly Rasmussen, and her family for the Nauvoo Pageant. They will be getting married in August.  That's one wedding I didn't want to miss, but I'm so glad that I got to meet them here in Nauvoo. Missing family events and meeting new grand babies are some of the hard things about being on a mission, but we wouldn't trade the experience of being missionaries for anything!

Scovil's Nauvoo Temple Plates

One of the Original Nauvoo Temple Plates made in England in the 1840's by Lucius Scovil.

      I served in the Scovil Bakery on Wednesday of this week.  This rare plate is on display there.  The story is:  After leaving Nauvoo the Saints crossed the Mississippi River into Iowa and camped in that frozen country--to prepare for their journey west.  Scovil had buried his wife and three children in Nauvoo, but he still had other children and family in his care.  While in Iowa, he was called on a mission to England.  He shed a "folly of tears" at thoughts of leaving his family.  But he knew that he must go. 

       Before leaving on his mission, Lucius crossed the river back to Nauvoo and took measurements and sketches of the temple.  He carried those sketches with him to England where he met a man who manufactured fine china and he had 150 dozen plates made of the temple plate pictured above.  Now he had a visual aid to show people as he talked about the importance of the temple and that families can be re-united after death.

        Susan Honey, from Kanab, UT, presented us a replica of the original when she visited us here during the past winter, 2011-12.  It is a treasure, for sure! We are so pleased to have one.

Little Quackers by the River



You can see different sizes of goslings, indicating that they were born at different times.



My friend, Sister Dahl, took these photos of the geese where they were raised near her water front home in Nauvoo along the banks of the Mississippi.

The geese are so fun to watch.

April, 2012

        

We visited Mark Twain's boyhood home

 in Hannibal, MO with the Carters.

We enjoyed browsing the museum.

Elder Heaton at the Brickyard. Remember the little pig that built his house of bricks? Ah, Ha!! They are the homes that lasted.

        Elder Heaton also is the chief repairman of the pug machine that mixes the brick formula.