Prairie Fire-4-7-14

Monday- April 7, 2014
This was after the Early Morning Breakfast.
I served in the Cultural Hall because I am an Assistant Site Leader for this Site.  I will serve here every Monday and Friday of the week.  We only had 3 tours but it was great to meet people and talk about the building which we call a Community Center.  We also take them upstairs to the 2nd floor which is the show of the Pioneer Quilts.  The 3rd floor is where we show the original wood floor.  There is such a special feeling in the Cultural Hall.


In the evening we had the Prairie Fire.  I couldn't believe how hot it got on my face.  I had to back up a lot to feel like I wouldn't get buried. This field is burned every year at this time to show how fast a fire can burn in the prairie.  We were served hot dogs and chips and popcorn in a bag.  The fire was lit at 6:00 pm and it was over at 6: 03 pm, this is the truth.  Here are some pictures where everyone met to have hot dogs at 5:30 pm.  We had a really good turn out to the party.  They said it was better than last year even the visitors that came to Nauvoo came to the Prairie Fire.

 Here are the lines to get your hot dog and chips.  They had tables to sit down and eat ,it was great.

Elder & Sister Phillipp

Here is the dry grass in the Prairie field.  Sister Harris is standing in the front of the field.

Here is a picture of Sister Harris up close.

                                 







Elder Harris in front of the dry grass.

They started the fire here.

It's spreading wider. 

It was getting Hotter and Hotter and Hotter!!

Here they are starting the fire on the other side.

                            It is still getting Hotter and Hotter and Hotter!

In this picture you can see the Temple in the left side of the picture.

                                                        The Blazing fire.

                                               The field was burned up in 3 minutes.

                                                    This is after the fire is done.

This is the neatest camera/remote control ever.  It is a camera and Elder Rob Taylor just fly's it around and it takes a movie or pictures of what is below.  He had this flying around the fire and the people watching the fire. I was able to get a pictures of it while it was flying but staying in one spot, cool ha!!

Susan E. Durrant's Classes & FM

Tuesday- April 1, 2014,
Susan Easten Durrant talked about Joseph and Hyrum Smith's Funeral and Burial in Nauvoo.  I can't believe what a computer brain she has.  It was so awesome.

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday- April 2, 3, 4, 2014
I worked at the FM and Planted flowers for three days.  It was wonderful because they got new small flowers and we had to replant them into larger pots.  It was so fun to learn how Durell transplants the plants that were shipped to the nursery. I have been packing the soil to tight in the pots before planting the flowers.  I also didn't know that you should wet the soil  just right before you plant the flowers and play in the soil to loosen the soil.  I am excited to transplant flowers in my pots at the home where we live.

                                              Playing in the dirt- It really is fun!!!

                                  Here are some beautiful flowers in  the nursery at FM.

                                            Friday - April 4, 2014,
Early Mission Breakfast- at 7:00 am.  We have a lot of new missionaries that we need to welcome to the Illinois Nauvoo Mission.   We have just a few missionaries leaving.  Here are some pictures.

Sister & Elder Sims, Sister & Elder Perkes, and Sister & President Chynoweth he has been serving as the President of the Mission since the middle of January until our new Mission President has arrived now.  President Chynoweth is the first councilor and is going home around May 11, 2014.

                                      Sister & Elder Perkes singing with a long long chin.

                                          Sister & Elder Sims singing in their skit.

                                          Sister & President Chynoweth singing in their skit.

Elder Ririe and Sister Scott with her broken knee cape and Sister Harris in her FM cloths at the Breakfast.  It is sad when Missionaries go home.

Talent Show

Tuesday- April 1, 2014,
Today I think of my father who past away three years ago today. My father Robert Brimhall Jensen didn't know me the last two years of his life.  He knew my husband Jim Harris but not me. I still went as often as I could to see him in a Nursing Home in Spanish Fork.  He was a good man  and took our family to the Temple to be sealed when I was 19 years old.
    In the evening Elder Harris and I went to watch the Talent Show, it was so good. Here are a few of the Talents in the Mission field.

                They sang the song "Sisters" but they pointed to their name tags that says "Sisters"

                                      Sister Maughan, Sister Hufstetler, Sister Salcido
The song was done very clever and cute.  The Talent Show is to see who they choose to do their Talent in the Sunset by the Mississippi in the summer months.

                       Elder Russell played an Native American Flute.  He was really good.

          Sister and Elder Stevens singing a really cute song and Elder Fuellenbach played his guitar.

                                               They are quite the swingers!!!

                                        Sister Strong played the Piano really well.

                 Elder Thornock, Elder Scott, Sister Duncan, Elder Phillippi, Sister McCann,
                                                       Elder Jones(Vet.Dr.)

                                       Sister and Elder Russell- Did a Reading together.

Elder Russell acted out while his wife told the Reading.

                                     Elder Ballard playing his Harmonica, he is really good.

                                           Sister Buchei acting out a reading, really cute.

                                              Sister Gillespie doing a reading, she is a riot.

Elder Excell is a good singer and played his guitor.

                   Sister & Elder Allen did What's on 1st. and Who's on 2nd.  It was fixed to fit the Missionary Theme.

 Elder Tuckett- sang,  Elder Taylor sang and played the guitar, Elder Fullenbach played banjo.

President & Sister Jones and Sister & Elder Bowen sang the cutest song.

                                                    Walking off the stage.