The PDay group we belong to, went on a field trip to Kalona, Iowa, on Friday. It is one of the sites that are recommended we go to during our stay here. There is a large group of Amish and Mennonites in that area. We took a tour with a tour guide and went to their chocolate factory, store, bakery, buggy shop, and ate in one of their homes. It was great and very educational. The Amish are the most simple. They generally do not have electricity and do not use cars. They dress with long dresses, long sleeve shirts and keep their heads covered. Their buggies have brakes and lights and are nice looking. The horses are in good shape and well taken care of. The meal we had was delicious and very well prepared. It was done by a nice older lady and her granddaughter. We loved it! It consisted of tapioca, salad, roast beef, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, mixed vegetables and pie. The granddaughter served each item, one at a time, we would pass it around the table, then she would start the next item at the end of the table and the proper way was to pass it to the next person weather you took any or not. I liked that organized method. Then for seconds, she did it the same way. We started at one end on one side and it went around the table with every person handling the bowl.
On Saturday night, the three couples in our building decided we should drive down to Quincy for a steak for Father's Day. One of the couples have a van, so he drove us down to Texas Roadhouse and we each had a steak. First steak in six weeks! It was good. The other couples were the Earls from Perry (Brigham City temple) and the Schnackenbergs from Craig Colorado (Vernal temple). We went there then went to Sam's Club to shop together. They are some of favorite missionaries that are serving here with us. We decided that this was a Father's Day that we will always remember.
Last Sunday we went down to the trail of hope presentation the Young Performing Missionaries do every Sunday, Wednesday and Friday. It takes place on the same place the pioneers lined up their wagons to cross the Mississippi. Every few yards along the trail, they have a performer read a journal account of the pioneers or in some cases sing a song. It is done with lanterns and burning torches. Funny, they had to tell the people not to touch the torches because they were real fire and would burn. They said they had incidences of people touching the torch to see if it was real. It was very spiritual. On the way back we saw a ton of fireflies. There are a lot of bugs here.
The rest of our week was rather routine. Monday we work in the baptistery until 1 pm. Tuesday we work the morning shift from 7:15 am until 1 pm. Wednesday we work the afternoon shift from 3:15 pm until 9 pm. Thursday the same shift as Wednesday. Friday is our P-Day. Saturday we work from 6:15 am until 1 pm. Then on Sunday we go to Galesburg to church. Galesburg is about 80 miles from Nauvoo. On county and state roads it takes us an hour and a half each way. So we spend 6 to 6 and a half hours for church on Sunday. We love our schedule, and our favorite thing to do here is work in the temple. Things are great and we are so blessed.
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