On Wednesday morning we loved watching Bethany and her cast of "Be Your Own Hero". Before this year, this show was named "Just Plain Anna Amanda". Bethany was Anna Amanda and she was SO GOOD!
She seriously channeled her inner child and and played Anna Amanda much like she was as a child. I've always described Bethany as being very playful and she was perfect for this part.
One of my favorite of her facial expressions.
As I said before, I didn't get my fill of Nauvoo-- but I especially would have like to see this show at least one more time. I was absolutely adorable and I loved all the missionaries in this cast.
Note Greta's pose. She was nonstop. Please do not note Peter's pose😂
Brother and Sister Sackett who are the drama directors took the Anna Amanda cast out for frozen custard. Our family was across the street getting lunch at the Red Front (again) so Abe popped over to take this picture.
And then Sister Fox and Sister Meiss joined us for lunch. So many smiles and so much love in Nauvoo. To me, this is the happiest place on earth.
Cannon with the Nauvoo temple in the background.
This was a newly restored home that Elder Cook recently dedicated in Nauvoo. It was the home of William Weeks-- the temple architect.
The boys at the temple stone cutting area.
The Gheen home-- where the revelation for baptisms for the dead was received. Also, a newly dedicated site in Nauvoo. As you can see, by our third day in Nauvoo, some of the family were running out of steam. And they weren't just the little people.
George was having a hard time with pain in his knees and Abe helped him out. Moments like this are getting fewer and farther between as George grows out of being a little kid. I thought it was pretty kind of Abe.
We got to watch two back to back performances of "Women of Nauvoo". It's a very quick 15 minute show, but as always, I wish it had been longer.
The carriage ride a little ways out in the country was just lovely. There weren't a lot of buildings to tell about, so our tour guide, Brother Phister, just told story after story about remarkable saints. I loved it.
Now for one of the highlights of our trip--- Carthage Jail. It's about a half hour from Nauvoo, so we all got a little rest in the van on the way out. One funny thing was the entire way out Greta was was in one of her singing moods, in which she just sings a stream of consciousness for a rather lengthy period of time. She has done this every now and then for a couple of years. We think it's adorable and I think the creative burst was brought on from watching he performing missionaries for three days straight.
We were SO HAPPY to see our favorite sister missionaries-- Sister Patterson and Sister Hays who had given us such a fantastic tour in Nauvoo. They weren't scheduled to be our tour guides, but they snagged us because they loved us too!
The upstairs criminal cell.
Sister Patterson and Sister Hays singing the first and sixth verses of "A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief" and then we all joined in the seventh verse.
Peter sitting by the window where Joseph fell out after he had been shot.
The bullet hole from the bullet that killed Hyrum Smith.
Of course we had to get a picture with our favorites! And of course we sent it to their families to tell them what good work their girls are doing.
It took Greta a few seconds to test out different poses for this picture and this is what she decided on. We've been laughing about it ever since.
Special shout out to Clark and Faith-- the work horses of the family on this trip. They have carried Peter and Greta through a lot of tours when little legs are tired and shown them a lot of love to help them through. And I'm dying at Greta's hand on her hip when she was resting because she knew I was taking this picture.
I have been very grateful to Clark and Faith.
Okay. Now do you want to hear something very sad? No? I don't really want to tell you either. But we were so, so sad when about a quarter of the way into "Sunset by the Mississippi" they told us all to go wait out an oncoming storm in our cars. Sadness. It didn't pass by quick enough and with lightening in the area, they called it for the night. So, we didn't get to see our final "Sunset". And it was going to be the night when Bethany sang "Grandma's Feather Bed" and play the role of Sweet Sue. So that was pretty disappointing.
I was super happy that Elder West sang the opening of "God Bless America". Such a beautiful voice.
Here are our final couple pictures of Sunset. At the end of "Old Fashioned Day in Nauvoo" is when they sent us back to our cars. I love Bethany's face here--I'm not sure what what happening but she is sitting on Elder Peterson's knee and I think he was saying or doing something that was making her laugh-- missionary appropriate, of course:)
We did get a little more time to visit with our friends, the Grants, who moved to Nauvoo from Utah about a month ago. They bought a home built in 1850 and it's perfect for them. They taught many in Utah to do vintage dancing and I can't wait to see what they add to Nauvoo with their love of the past. It was fascinating to go visit them in their home and see how these old homes are still lived in today.
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