Some months ago they announced at our shift at the temple that anyone interested in serving a 6-month mission (during the tourist season) at the Nauvoo Temple should write a letter to the Portland Temple president expressing that interest. So we did and were told that 10 other couples had applied and there would be more. They could only send in 3 couples' names to Salt Lake and of those only 2 couples would be called. So pretty competitive. We didn't think we'd get chosen. But one of the counselors in the temple presidency, President Ross, lives in our ward and encouraged us. He and his wife have served in the Nauvoo Temple and they said we'd really enjoy it. They must have put in a good word for us.
We report there April 21, 2012 and serve until late October. Emily and Jason have volunteered to take care of our house for us while we're gone.
While we were there on the tour recently we met the temple president and his wife, Spencer J. and Dorothea Condie. I looked him up on Wickipedia. He's Dad's age, served a mission in southern Germany where he met his wife, and they have 5 children. He was a mission president in Austria and is now an emeritus seventy.
We'd love to have you visit us while we're in Nauvoo. We will be sorry to miss the family reunion at Camp Alpine and Brenda's 40th birthday party and Laura's baptism. But we also feel very blessed to have this opportunity to serve in this special temple.
5 comments:
I'm glad you are serving another mission. From what I hear Baltimore had some bad parts so it's better to end on a good note.
Premo duty station. You guys will be great.
Lol! I thought you were going to be serving in Nauvoo as tour guides. I was ready to see you and Eldon dancing and singing in a skit.
Lots of video on the Nauvoo temple, including:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bdh8t_qu-U&feature=related
Congrats! The third time tells the tale, right! Well three together, that is.
I'm so excited for you and hope I can visit with my boys next summer.
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