May 29, 2011
Today we gave our sacrament meeting talks. We had about 400 in attendance and it looked like a stake conference. Many people, some we had not met before came up to us and tell us how much they enjoyed the talks. I will attach them. They liked the poems I got from Sister Tovey. She came over a couple of weeks ago and gave me some of her old talks because she knew that I was under a lot of pressure with Jean Andersons’s death (going home to SL) and scheduling our shift each week from the beginning and everything else that was going on.
While we were walking down Parley’s street with some other missionaries, we stopped to rest at the 70’s Hall. Other people walked by and Sister Rees would ask them where they were from. Then she proceeded to tell them that we were the ones that talked in church this morning. They would say, “The Petersons?” As we walked the streets of Nauvoo tonight we felt special and that people remembered our talk. More and more people are asking for a copy of our talks and stories.
During our class time the sky got very dark and then it began to rain very hard. When we finished up our block session, it was still raining but started to drop off. We went to choir practice and then to the Arrival Center to meet with Brother Ord to have our pictures taken to add to the choir pictures that we previously missed. While we were waiting for others to come, the security guard, Brother Stossel, told us that he had been watching the storm on the radar and when it got close to Nauvoo, it split and dispersed and broke up. In his 20 years here in Nauvoo he has only had one time when it was close to a Tornado, but was not called a Tornado. It just had high winds and took off the branches of the trees. The recorder, Brother Marshal when he was told about the storm dispersing, said “Again”.
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