"Yet Knowing How Way Leads on to Way, I Doubted if I Should Ever Come Back."robert frost

Last night was the "Christmas Walk" festivities. We played the part of Jonathan and Elizabeth Browning of Browning gun fame. Their Nauvoo Brick home still stands here and has been restored. Did you know your great great grandpa once lived with the Browning family for a time in Ogden, Utah?

We have a monthly breakfast where we say farewell to the missionaries going home that month. We have been here long enough now that we have grown very fond of our friends. "Knowing how way leads on to way" it's hard to think we may never see them again but we are forever bonded by the experiences we have had together in Nauvoo.
Above, Dad's coworker on the grounds crew and tennis buddy, Elder DeWitt. He will be leaving in a couple of weeks for their home in AZ. Below are some fellow Nauvoo Restoration Inc. missionaries and the young man is Mark, an employee who has become a dear friend to the missionaries. His little one year old daughter has hundreds of grandpas and grandmas.







Me and Sister Leonard. She has gone home to Lewiston, ID. A more loving person you could never know.









Our dear Sister Gibson will be leaving for her home in Orem, UT. She taught us how to perform on a stage and do our vignette in "Rendezvous in Old Nauvoo." She believed in us and we wanted to make her proud.










Elder and Sister Taylor. Her eyes are partially closed so you can't tell how pretty she is. The Taylor's are "mad" with talent and had a great appreciation for Dad and my attempts to learn the arts.

All the Sisters donned their day caps and sang a song about quilting to our mission president and his wife before presenting them with a surprise; a quilt made by some of the sisters. That's me in the jeans in the right front. We go to work right after the breakfast so I'm in my NRI clothes.

President and Sister Ludwig with their new quilt. They will be leaving to their home in Colorado in 6 weeks. They have served here for 4 years. They are wonderful leaders. A little side note; Sister Ludwig's father is a world class physicist.