This is the view we can see from our home. The big horses out eating in the field and the red & white barn. In the distance the two steeples are visible. One is the big Catholic Church steeple and the other the Nauvoo Temple steeple. They stand side by side in 'Old Nauvoo', both beautiful, one is not very busy and the other is busy every day. We help them, go to their dinners and the President meets with all the denominations in Nauvoo once a month, there is about 5 different churches in little Nauvoo. We live in peace, we can tell the Lord is blessing all of us.
E/S Williams we're able to work together in the "Webb Blacksmith Shop" on Sunday, which is a rare time. He is usually busy in the Mission Office each day. Here he made a little horse show and gave it to visitors along with a 'prairie diamond', a horse shoe nail ring. We served with another couple, they told about the wagons and making the big wheels for the wagons. It was a great day in Nauvoo.
The corn by our house grows tall as you can see. We are just leaving to go to our show, "Rendezvous" and stop to take a picture. Do you think it is over 10 feet tall. The deer and the raccoons love it.
President and Sister Ludwig keep track of all of the missionaries grandchildren. "If you have that many grandchildren praying for you", she says we will be blessed and all be great missionaries. In one month we added two little grandchildren to that number. Forest Williams, and Kolby Williams. We are so thankful for all of our grandchildren. We love them.
After the crowds slow down a little the YSM's (Young sister Missionaries) start preparing to go into the field. They practice proselyting, the missionaries are not allowed to teach here in Nauvoo. The couples have fictitious names and circumstances and we roll play once or twice a week, then feed them dinner once a week. E/S Williams are Karl and Roxanne Fox. She is a member, YW's President and he is a dry Mormon. She has been a member for 40 years, he never joined at that time, but comes to church a little. We have about 4 weeks of this, trying to get this Karl Fox baptized. I am getting a little frustrated with him, will he join or will he not. It depends on how S/Barry and S/Patterson do in their teaching. The 20 YSM's left the 1st of Oct. for their new assignments. Each got a new mission call, Mt., Co., NJ etc. They will return in 6 months to complete their mission in Nauvoo. We love them and are anxious for them to do well in their new mission and to return back to us in the spring.
Shalece, Jade, Devanie and Dalton all visited us in Nauvoo. We were so glad to see them. We had a great time showing them around Nauvoo, visiting the Amish (which Shalece just had to do), and going to Carthage with them. They loved the sites, shows and the temple. E/Williams is telling Dalton about the horse "Charlie" that was given to Joseph Smith by Dalton's G,G,G,G,G Grandfather, Peter VanOrden. He rode this horse to Carthage along with Hyrum, that fateful day.
