Most Reverent

Having Laryngitis the last few days in Nauvoo has made things interesting to say the least!  It started Tuesday night, and by Wednesday morning a whisper is all that was coming out.  I know they are short on having enough missionaries in the sites, so I just asked to switch to a home that had less visitors.  No problem!  I still ended up helping with a couple of tours and giving about four.  It was funny, I used hand gestures and spoke very softly, the tour in turn was whispering back to me when they had comments or questions.  Amazing what we express with the tone of our voice.  The tours were great.  Nothing wrong with lowering our voices for sure.
Thursday was harder when I got sent to Family Living Center, figured I would just be able to do the counting, but we had tremendous numbers of guests coming in, especially when it began to rain outside.  I ended up doing tours on spinning and weaving by using some sign language, demonstrating and pointing to a couple of signs.  The groups were so sweet, appreciative and helpful.  We just keep smiling away!
Today is our prep day and so I am able to give it a rest, poor Elder Spradlin - he keeps trying to ask me questions, and not getting much answer from me!  Lemon, Honey, Ginger and cayenne all make for good friends and soon I will be back up to full speed.  Grateful that laryngitis didn't stop us from being able to go to the temple!
Tuesday morning I had a question on my heart, and I wanted understanding.  I felt that if I asked, the Lord would send me the answers I needed. The name of a specific sister came to my mind, when I went to my site, that was the Sister I ended up working with, and I had only been with her one other time in the last two months.  She did have what I needed to hear, in fact it was super neat as she shared with me stories of her ancestors and what they had written in their journals while they were here in Nauvoo. In the afternoon a Sister I had not seen in years showed up on my site and as we bore testimony of the truthfulness of the Gospel and the importance of holding on to the truths the Gospel brings we were both strengthened.  My question of the morning led to me being in the frame of mind to hear the needs of my sister in the afternoon.  Heavenly Father hears and answers our prayers.  He knows our needs and wants us to reach out to Him, but we have to be ready to Reach and to grow.
Wednesday morning for our Mission Training meeting They had the Core Cast from the pageant come in and do two of the Vignettes, One of them was on the missionaries who left to go teach the Gospel in England from here and the other was the King Follet sermon given by Joseph Smith.  Then they sang.  It was amazing, feel so blessed by all of the opportunities we have here.
Lehi's Dream showed a terrible darkness covering the Earth, we have that today in so many ways with the confusion, chaos, strife around us.  We must do as he admonished by holding tight to the Rod and not ever losing our focus on  the Plan our Heavenly Father has given.  It is all about change and growth but by the pattern we have been given in the Plan of Salvation.