overachievers, family and fourth of July

This one could have so many names!  but it is dedicated to the dedicated missionaries here in Nauvoo!  This  can become humorous, like this past week when our cast had Rendezvous.  Missionaries have started bringing refreshments to eat in the green room during performances because many don't get a chance to get home and eat between site duty and the performances.  I had it worked out with some of the sisters that she and I would bring food this past time and told the sister who is in charge of that kind of for the cast.  I wanted to make sure I had enough, so did a lot, and showed up with it.  As I was going in I saw another sister bringing in some cupcakes, then the sister I was doing it with of course brought hers and she also did a lot.  Later a brother showed up with some cookies he had made, then there was a birthday and another sister brought a whole bunch of food because of that.  It got to being hilarious how much food showed up! Talk about a funny lack of communication, or miscommuniation!   Most of mine, except the fruit salad was freezable so I took it out to the car to take home and freeze.  It was pretty awesome that we all cared that much, I got surprised and tickled though when one of the sisters was afraid I was going to have my feelings hurt because of it.  My thought was that only someplace like Nauvoo would you have so many wanting to help so much.
There are many examples like this but I think one of the most amazing is a sister who works in the mail room.  Her work doesn't take very long, so she gets up early in the mornings unassigned and goes around looking for weeds that need pulled, or things that need done before she starts her assignment. Caught her this morning when we were out for our early morning walk, she was out pulling weeds by some flower pots on Main Street.  It was awesome having the time to stop and help, just for the joy of making things better.

Jessica and Bill were able to come visit us last weekend and it was so great having family in town.  We were able to give them tours in the sites we were working in and spend some time with them when we weren't "on duty"  They got to come watch Rendezvous, we agreed with them when they said it was kind of overacted.... What do you expect from us old geezers!
Jessica brought me my new dulcimer that David found for me at an estate sale last week so am now working hard to get better!
Fourth of July they had a 7:00am flag raising before we had to go on site.  Loved the bagpipes!