Support and Hope on our Journey

We've been blessed richly this week with great spiritual guidance and support.  Sister Spittle got strep throat and couldn't perform with us all day Friday (I told her that her present to me for my birthday was to get well) so we had to re-choreograph the dances and take her lines.  That happened much sooner in the season this time than last time I was here. :P We have been supported by angels as we perform with half the cast very ill with coughs and congestion which makes any singing very difficult. I believe fully that we are helping to bring souls to Christ, and as we are humble we will not fail. Thinking back over the week, I can only remember one brief period of time when I was not 100% engaged in every performance, and I regret not having done so. I think that Heaven is pleased with our efforts though, I'm grateful to be able to do better this next week.

Sacred Ground

Anyone who has had the blessed opportunity to visit Nauvoo, and then the doubly-blessed miracle of returning will know something; they'll know the feeling of coming home again.  There is a legacy of faithfulness left there, that literally dedicates the ground and gives it a spirit rarely felt elsewhere. Those who visit Nauvoo are invited by the early Saints and Brother Joseph --for it is a rare and beautiful privilege-- to learn from them and carry on their legacy.

While I longed to return after that wonderful time when I was seventeen and I went as a YPM the first time, I didn't think that it would be possible.  Now I know that, in spite of everything, I've been called to perform again. I am so grateful!  I will do so with all my heart.