This week has been a very busy week and one that I will long remember. The Nauvoo Mission hosted a Mission Presidents Seminar and about 26 Mission Presidents and their wives were welcomed to Nauvoo by Apostle L. Tom Perry, Elder Ronald Rasband, General President of the Seventies, and other General Seventies and Area Authorities and their wives. Every missionary here was involved in one way or another. Elder Perry and Elder Rasband spoke today in our Sacrament meeting. It was a wonderful and memorable meeting that I will always remember. Our Mission President Elder Gibbons and his wife were amazing hosts. What a blessing to our mission to have so many VIPs here at the same time. The weather has been perfect and the leaves all seemed to be in their most splendid beauty for this important event.

Apostle L. Tom Perry

A picture of Elder Perry and his wife Barbara - story to follow about my experience with her

Elder Ronald A. Rasband

In preparation for all these wonderful leaders coming to Nauvoo, we asked them to send us names of their ancestors that lived here in Nauvoo and then the ladies in Land & Records would research them and put information, maps, etc on a disk for them to take home and review. So our staff at Land & Records have been extremely busy getting this information gathered and ready to present to those that sent us their names. (Not everyone took advantage of this opportunity or did not have ancestors here in Nauvoo). Elder Perry and his wife did not send us any information and so we didn't have a disk ready for them. I felt bad, but there wasn't anything I could do without the names of their ancestors!

Well yesterday afternoon as I was serving in Land & Records, in walks Sister Barbara Perry and wants to sit down at the computers and research her information and put it on a disk! So for the next hour or so I was able to sit and help her place names for her and her husband on disks to take home. I also invited her to make pass along cards from her profile on mormon.org and gave her my pass along card with the instruction sheet created by some in our mission on how to do it step by step. She was so excited. What a beautiful and gracious woman! I wanted to take a picture with her, but we had been told not to ask this of any of our special guests. So my writing about this will have to do. But I am going to follow up with her in a few weeks and see what she thought of the information she received on the disks and see if she has questions about how to do her pass along cards!!!