News for Week 6

Hello to you all again:

My, how fast time seems to pass by!!  We had a great week of working in our various historic site assignments and really enjoy being able to bear our testimony of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  

On Sunday after Church we went to Elder and Sister Jones home for lunch and it was very nice.  Then we rested during the balance of the afternoon and that evening went to the Young Performing Missionary Sociable.  It was a wonderful evening of music and spiritual feeding.  Many of the young performers sang and read entries from their  journals about their 3 1/2 month experience while serving here in Nauvoo.  They are very special and we can see why their mission here during the summer is so important.  If any of you have children or grandchildren that can play musical instruments, act, dance and sing and are not married have them consider applying to serve here in the summer.  It is an experience they will never forget!!!


Young Performing Missionaries

On Monday Sister Pincock served at the Lyon Drug and Variety Store.  The doctor that owned the business relied on herbs to heal his patients and we have included a couple of pictures of the more recent herb garden.  You can actually go and pick the herbs that we want to have.  That night we went to Sunset by the Mississippi and saw Ann Hymas from Rexburg.  She is the daughter of Jerry and Lynette Sanders of Rexburg.  She was here to surprise her son, Elder Foster, who plays in the young missionary band.  Then we took a nice drive along the Mississippi river and enjoyed a beautiful evening looking at the lily pads.

Herb garden at the Lyon Drug Store

Ride along the Mississippi

Lily Pads

Elder Foster

Elder Pincock served at the Printing Office on Monday and during a break in the people coming to take tours he had an chance to visit with Elder Pixler who was his partner.  As they were talking and finding out where they each lived prior to missionary service, Elder Pixler said that he lived in Gilbert, Arizona.  That just happened to be where Elder Pincock's Aunt Dorothy and Uncle Floyd Haymore lived.  Elder Pixler, said "No way"! " Floyd was the person that baptized me a member of the Church".  What a fun experience that was.

Tuesday we went on a carriage ride.  During the 45 minute ride they tell many spiritual experiences of people that lived in Nauvoo. The driver of the carriage was Elder Boyle from Rexburg.  He is the brother of Nyle and Lee Boyle of Rexburg.   In the afternoon we attended the musical production of High Hopes and Riverboats.  The young performing missionaries do the show and it was spectacular.  These young missionaries are soooo talented.

Carriage Ride

Carriage ride drivers (Elder Boyle on the left)



Thorny Honey Locust Tree

Every Wednesday morning at 8:00 AM we have our mission training meetings.  They do not last too long because we have to be at our visitors sites by 8:45 but the content of the meetings is excellent.  Sister Pincock had her first assignment to play the prelude and opening song for that meeting.  Sister Pincock served at the Scovil Bakery today and told about Bro. Scovil who lost his wife and three children while living in Nauvoo.  She also gave out lots of gingerbread cookies.  Sister Pincock decorated a "Viking " candy bar for a lady who was celebrating a birthday.  Yes, we STILL love Viking Bars from Florence's chocolates in Rexburg.

Scovil Bakery

Elder Pincock gave demonstrations on Wednesday at the Family Living Center.  He showed how to make rope, how to make pottery and how to make barrels.  It is a wonderful experience to bear testimony about having strong families, like rope,  and how we should make our lives so that the Savior can mold us into individuals that will follow his commandments.

Thursday was a fun day again.  We both served together in the Visitors Center.  We got to answer questions, answer the phone, start the various films and talk to lots of people.  Sister Pincock had a minute during her lunch break to go out into the woman's garden and see the beautiful flowers and all the women's statues.  We have attached some pictures.

Sister Pincock at the Women's Statue garden

We love our grandchildren

Joseph and Emma

On Friday Elder Pincock gave tours at the brickyard.  He likes to do that demonstration because he can involve the children and bear testimony that through life's "firing" we can be stronger in the Gospel .
And he enjoys making bricks when not giving tours.  Sister Pincock worked at the Post Office today.  Besides a post office it was a dry goods store.  Postage back in those days was interesting, most letters were sent without postage and the person receiving the letter would have to pay the postage if they wanted to get the letter.

brick making demonstration

On Saturday Sister Pincock worked at the Family Living Center giving demonstrations in candle making, making bread, thread spinning and weaving.  It is hard to work at the living center because the floor is hard and we are standing for the whole 6 hours.  But we get to see lots of people.  Elder Pincock worked at the Blacksmith shop.  Can you imagine him making a horseshoe with a forge and anvil?  All I can say is that he is learning.  He did have a great experience though.  One of the tours consisted only of a couple and one other fellow.  As Elder Pincock was bearing his testimony about the truthfulness of the Gospel and the importance of us all working together to make a better community the woman said they were not members of the Church and that she was a Lutheran Minsister.  That her and her husband had come to Nauvoo to learn about the history here and learn about the Mormon religion.  He and his companion spoke with them for quite a while and they were touched by the Spirit that they felt here in Nauvoo.  Hopefully they will invite the missionaries to their home to continue learning more. 

horseshoe making

At Church on Sunday there was only about half as many as had been there for the past month.  It seems that the summer crowds are diminishing.  Only 10 Priesthood blessing the sacrament and only 16 passing it compared to the 26 the week before.  After Church we went together to work at the Seventies Hall.  It is fun to be at these sites together.  On Sunday's we work for just five hours in the afternoon but we had as many people Sunday as they had on Saturday. We had about 59 people.  It is great to tell them about the missionary program of the Church and talk about those early missionaries that left their families sick and starving to answer the call of a prophet.  We did have one couple again that said they were not members of the Church.  They lived just north of Nauvoo and wanted to see the history of their state.  We had a wonderful conversation with them and when they said that  Yellowstone Park was on their bucket list we invited them to come stay with us in a year and half.  Elder Pincock gave them our email and cell phone number and invited them to learn more about the Church and invited them to listen to the missionaries.  We hope that they will contact us.

Elder Pincock in the Seventy's Hall

After our site assignment on Sunday we got a quick bite to eat for dinner and ran to our mission zone conference where we were instructed about how to deal with adversity and how to make our lives stronger because of adversity.

Well, that will give you some idea about the work we do and the opportunities that we have from day to day.  The hours are long but we love the experiences we have and the fun people we get to meet.

Welcome home to Elder and Sister Sherwood and Georgia Ricks from Ukraine.  You are a great example.

We hope that you all have a great week and that you will do your best always. 

E/S Pincock

PS  Elder Pincock has been writing the blog lately and has taken on the role of reminding you to do your best.  Here is my thought for the day.  "It's great to be flexible.  Then you will never get bent out of shape."  Love, Sister Pincock