Yesterday and today we mentored new ordinance workers, Norman and Evelyn Boehm. Brother and Sister Boehm served as president and matron of the Sacramento Temple the same time we were at the Redlands Temple. Brother Boehm was also a regional representative when I was stake president, so we attended several meetings together.

We went to the temple early Wednesday morning to get ready for the Boehms and took this picture.

On the main road into Nauvoo, and a quarter mile from our apartment, is a community tree and brush burn pile. People dispose of branches, etc., by bringing them to this spot and the city controls the burn. When the wind blows to the west we get the smell of burning wood in our apartment.

 

Tuesday afternoon we went to the Witch's Rib BBQ in La Harp, IL. We've become friends with the Hansens who live near St. George.

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I've mentioned before that miracles happen all of the time in the temple. Some folks might be inclined to say that these events are just coincidences. We have seen too many "tender mercies" to attribute them to chance. This afternoon Brother Anderson (Seattle) told me the following experience he had in the temple today. His daughter lives in Germany and has not been active in the Church for four years. He was in the Baptistry when a woman came to see the Baptistry before leaving the temple. Brother and Sister Anderson visited with the woman and learned that she is German and is their daughter's Relief Society president. The Relief Society president has seen their daughter's name before, but never met her. The president left the Baptistry with an address and phone number for the Anderson's daughter; she plans on contacting the daughter and letting her know that she met her parents in the temple.