Today I performed a licensed marriage for Michael James Judd and Danielle Elaine Pack. The groom is from Sacramento, CA, and the bride is from Des Moines, IA. They met at BYU-Idaho. Before I performed the sealing I spoke with them and was able to establish that the bride and I are cousins through John Pack. What a treat to be able to come to Nauvoo, meet a distant cousin, and then seal that cousin to her husband for time and all eternity.

The Church sponsors dozens of performances and activities during the summer in Nauvoo. Tonight we attended three shows. The first was the Nauvoo Brass Band composed of performance missionaries. The second show was Sunset on the Mississippi composed of performance missionaries and site missionaries. The third show was the International Folk Dance Ensemble from BYU. It was an excellent night of entertainment.

Performance missionaries are young men and women who audition to serve for three months during the summer. In addition to their performances we see them regularly in the temple attending endowment sessions and performing proxy baptisms. Site missionaries are senior couples who typically serve for eighteen months. They are hosts during the day at historical sites, and then at night they perform in four different productions.

Tonight we happened to sit behind the grandparents of the bride I sealed today. We had a nice visit with them.

We walked to the performances. It was dark on our way home and we saw dozens of fireflies.

There are three missions in Nauvoo, each with a president and counselors: 1) proselyting missionaries; 2) site missionaries; and, 3) temple missionaries.