We have been so blessed. 

We have our ups and downs, 
but keep learning wonderful life lessons.
  
I keep having to remember the talk by Pres. Uchtdorf

STOP IT

On a mission it is easy to have all sorts of concerns.  I need to stop it and rely on the Lord. 

I then see my blessings and see how I am helped.  
I don't need to worry.

Temple Trip with Kim and Carl Lewis

We went to the temple with a wonderful couple who were recently baptized.  They were baptized for our family names.  We all so enjoyed it.  Wonderful Trip!!!

On the Friday after Halloween, to celebrate Ron's birthday, we went to the Nauvoo Temple.  Friday night we did initiatories and Saturday we did an endowment and 3 hours of sealings.  We were very tired, but I felt such joy in my heart.  Many of the names gave me a special feeling. 

 It was a glorious day.

We are now filming in the courthouse of Muscatine.  

We arrive on Monday - work, check into the Fairfield Inn, and work and stay until Friday, then drive back to Oskaloosa where our apartment is. 

  

Friday I do laundry, Saturday, we pack and prepare meals for the next week, and Sunday we do missionary work - visiting people and going with the missionaries. 

It doesn't always work that way. Today, a Saturday, we went to a missionary discussion and had a family and the elders to supper.  Going with the flow works well too.

In the Muscatine Courthouse

We started filming in this room, but too may people needed go into it to file etc.  So we moved the camera into a very, very small room - more like a closet where they kept a computer.

The lights to the room are up those stairs, so when filming there we would need to turn the light on for people who needed to use the area - which was a lot.  So up and down and up and down we would go, turning it on for people.
I am glad we moved! 

Stairs to the attic where over a hundred very large books are that we have to film.

We are Blessed

We have had a lot of very spiritual experiences.  

We have been able to visit people and be guided in what we should say and do. 

We have been directed to go places and see people.  

What a blessing to be able to experience such wonderful promptings by the Holy Ghost.   

Nelson Farm and Museum

After the Oskaloosa, Courthouse we got to film at the Nelson Farm and Museum just outside of Oskaloosa.   What fun!  Hard work of course and hot at times, but what a setting.  We could wander and look at the museum when we weren't filming.  Amy the person in charge of the Museum was great.  She had us help out with activities for their big celebration, and we got to give tours of the 1940's store to the home school children.  The missionaries helped out also. They helped us with games, and the people and children loved them.  We did egg toss, three legged race, etc.  I have great memories of filming there.  It took us about 7 weeks. 

Amy (the person in charge of the museum) In Her Office

She knows everything about museums and how to take care of things.  She hums everywhere she goes.  She says it warns people she is coming.  Fun!

Ron looking cool in museum

Ron putting on a hair cutting apron we bought.  Works great to keep us cleaner.

We filmed on the second floor and the bathrooms were in the basement.  Good exercise.