Week 5

Hello again:

This post will get us caught up with our weekly reports.  We had a great week with the Ingram family (our daughter Cammie, Paxton, Seth, Noah, Ace and Libby) as they visited us in Nauvoo.  We were able to spend some time with them in between our work (tour) schedule, meetings and shows that we perform in. One of the first things grandma did on Monday morning was to take the kids shopping so that they could buy their "official" Nauvoo work hats.  They all now looked official as they toured the Old Nauvoo historic sites.  

Ingram Family with their pioneer hats

When we went to work Monday afternoon the Ingram's did some of the activities in Nauvoo.  Elder Pincock was able to go with them on the wagon ride around the streets of Nauvoo.  The wagon took them down Parley Street to the edge of the Mississippi where the Saints left Nauvoo in February 1846 to begin their trek across the wilderness to the Rocky Mountains.

with Grandpa on a wagon ride.

 

On Parley Street to the Mississippi River (where the trek west all started)

The Ingram's visited with grandma while she was working at the Cultural Hall.  How fun was that!!!!  Libby even got to do a little dance on the floor in the upper dance hall where Joseph and Emma  danced.



with grandma for a tour at the Cultural Hall

Libby dancing in the upper room of the Cultural Hall(where Joseph and Emma danced)

They visited Grandpa while he was working in the Family Living Center.  They made rope, watched the barrel making demonstration, learned how to make pottery and how to weave rugs.  They also learned about how to make bread and candles.  Libby loved to play with the dolls in the Center.

Making rope with grandpa

Many of the other historic sites were visited including the printing office, Tin making shop, Lyon Drug Store and the kids loved playing all the pioneer games at the pioneer pastimes site.



at the Print Shop

On Monday night we went to the Old Nauvoo cemetery and looked at the grave sites.  We knew there was one of Elder Pincock's relatives buried there and sure enough, we found the spot.  John and Mary Marsden Pincock lived in Nauvoo and both died before the saints left.  John was 51 years old and Mary was 56 when they died.




Grave marker of Elder Pincock's Great, Great, Great Grandfather and his wife

The picture below is of the Ingram family at the pioneer memorial at the Old Nauvoo Cemetery.  The cemetery sits on a wooded hill and is kept up very nice.  There is an information booth where the names of all the people that are buried in the cemetery are listed. 



Ingram family at the Old Nauvoo Cemetery

On Tuesday, we all went to a performance of "Just Plain Anna Amanda.  It was darling and the kids all loved it.  Then Ace and Libby were even able to get their pictures taken with the stars of the show.


kids with performers of the play--Just Plain Anna Amanda

On Tuesday night we did our 1st Performance (on stage) in the musical show called Rendezvous.  It is done by the senior missionaries and is lots of fun to watch.  I think we were pretty nervous to be on stage and hoping that we did not sing the wrong song or dance at the wrong time.  I think we did okay.  At least we didn't get FIRED after the show!   How good we look!

with Grandma and Grandpa at Rendezvous (a musical about people in Nauvoo)

us in our costumes at Rendezvous

The Ingram's spent some time on Parley Street reading the faith promoting quotes from some of the saints that left Nauvoo and their testimonies of the truthfulness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  It was fun for them to look out across the Mississippi and imagine what it was like for those pioneers to leave their beloved city on a cold freezing day in February.   They also got to visit the Nauvoo Temple and spent a morning at the Carthage jail.  The boys all talked about the bullet hole in the door from that evening in 1844.

Ingram kids looking across the Mississippi where the saints crossed the river

Ingram kids at the Nauvoo Temple

On Wednesday night we were on stage with other senior missionaries and the young performing missionaries and the young band missionaries.  This group of young missionaries come to Nauvoo for 3 1/2 months in the summer and sing, dance and play music.  They are wonderful and sooooo talented.  We even asked one of the girls if she had been on Broadway in New York because she had such a wonderful voice and smile.  She said that she had not been there but she was going because that was her dream.  For those of you who knew Elder Davis in Armenia, notice the young man in the front row with brown pants just left of the microphone.

Young Performing Elders and Sisters

On Thursday we had to say goodbye to the Ingram's.  it was so much fun to have them here and show them a little of what we do each day.  We are grateful that they made it home safely.


On Friday morning we went to our first mission "breakfast".  This is a breakfast where the new missionaries are welcomed and goodbye said those that are leaving to go home.  There was tons of food and we again were blessed to be sung to by all the young performers that will be leaving in two weeks.  They will be missed by all of us.

monthly breakfast with all Nauvoo Site missionaries

Young Elders and Sisters singing for us before they leave for home


It was a wonderful week and we are receiving so many blessings from Heavenly Father that we just cannot count them all.  It is a wonderful experience to bear our testimony to those that come to the various historic sites.  The Holy Ghost does fill our minds and mouths with just the right words when we need them.  The other senior missionaries ( about 200 of them) are so helpful and willing to help us learn what we need to.  Next week we will tell you about some of the family connections we have made and some of those that we have known for many years that were here for the pageant, visit here or serve as missionaries here. 
On Sunday we were blessed to hear from another General Authority, the 3rd one in three weeks, Elder Greg Zwick from the Seventy Quorum who is over the Missionary Assignment Committee.  One of the interesting things he told us is that as of July 2, 2013, there were 74,060 missionaries in the field.  There are 11,895 elders who have received their call, and 6,520 young sisters who have received their call and 1,393 Seniors who are on missions.     Seniors, don't let this opportunity slip by you.  It is so worth it!
We are busy and fall in bed each night but we are having a marvelous time.  We love you all and hope that you all have a great week.  Always do the best you can. 

Elder and Sister Pincock, (grandma and grandpa)