BEAUTIFUL NAUVOO

WARNING:  The following post has nothing to do

with our mission. It has to do with Beautiful Nauvoo

where we stayed recently for two nights, as

do many of the senior couples in missions nearby.

 

Aunt and Uncle Sandwich.  Elder C's Nephew and family

are in the pageant at Nauvoo. Seeing them was

the highlight of our experience.  Above, we are posing

with them, and the Aunt and Uncle of the wife who

are serving in Nauvoo.

 

So Fun.

 

 

Cute pioneer family.  They applied to be

in the pageant, and arrived in Nauvoo to start

learning to be extras.  They will practice

and be in the finale for a week. 
Then they will be the extras for another week.

They also help with pre-pageant activities.

What a great family experience.

 

 

Glad to see our nephew and his family.  Love the

pageant crowd in the background.

 

Below:
The Nauvoo Pageant

and

The British Pageant

on consecutive nights were glorious.

 

 

Below:

Additional adventures.

 

 

King Follet's Well.

A memorial built by missionaries.

 

Beautiful, serene, and peaceful.  Nauvoo

 

Loved the family living center

demonstrating skills of the pioneers.

 Hope to try making a rug like this.

 

This bed would get made in

the mornings, then folded up

to make more space for spinning

and weaving and whatnot.

Ingenious.

 

The Cromptons.

These two ancestors were endowed

in the rush of endowments at the

Nauvoo temple before the exodus.

 

Their names appear on this memorial

because they died while crossing the

plains.  Four Thousand names appear

in this memorial.

This wagon is place near the end of the

Trail of Hope.

The hope of our ancestors brought us to where

we are today.

 

A roster in the Seventy's Hall lists

two ancestors, father and son Crompton,

who were Seventies in Nauvoo.

 

The room above the "red brick store".