Mission Choir. 6-26-16

Today was our last Mission Choir performance for awhile. We will be taking a break in July. We sang "Praise to the Man" in honor of the martyrdom commemoration tomorrow at Carthage. It was a very difficult arrangement, but the choir did a magnificent job with a lot of help from the Lord.

During the meeting the mission president was impressed to change it from the middle of the program to the closing hymn. It was a powerful spiritual ending to the meeting for all of us. I'm so grateful for the incredible man Joseph Smith was and for all he sacrificed to bring forth the Restored gospel of Jesus Christ.

Hannibal Trip. 6-26-16

This week I went to Hannibal, Missouri with some of the single sisters. It has been a few weeks since I went anyplace on a preparation day. We had a great time seeing the Mark Twain sites, and Sister Cook met a man who was really interested in learning about the Church! He even came to Nauvoo to check things out.

Nauvoo Connections. 6-26-16

I met some Goodman relatives this week - Quinten & Tim Goodman who are descendants of Lyman Curtis and Lynn Goodman, Ralph's brother. They were wonderful people. I also saw David Eldredge who was in our Sandy ward. He now lives near Mark in Columbus, Ohio. What a small world!

Shoo Fly!!! 6-26-16

Speaking of my nose, I had a really funny thing happen on Tuesday. Remember the old lady who swallowed a fly? Well here's what happened to me!

I was playing the piano for our Rendezvous show. It goes so fast that I can't look away for a moment without losing about 16 measures. Well, as I was playing a fly lit on my face. For one entire song it crawled all over my face, which tickled like crazy. I could hardly stand it, but I had to keep playing. Then it crawled up my nose! I don't know how I made it through the song, but somehow I did. Yuck!

Summer Sun. 6-26-16

Hi Everyone. It has been a wonderful week! Tuesday I got the stitches out of my nose. The doctor said that over the next couple of months it should look completely normal!

I did buy myself a hat to protect my nose from the sun.

Keep Smiling! 6-19-16

The biggest lesson I learned this week is that if you really smile and love others, they don't notice the bandage so much. Here I am performing a few days later in Rendezvous. No one even asked what happened to my nose!

Have a great week!

Nose to the Grindstone. 6-19-16

The most eventful thing that happened to me this week was that I got in 10 days ahead of schedule on a cancellation to have Moh's surgery on a spot on my nose. I had a little basal cell carcinoma (self-contained skin cancer) removed. Everything went well. Here are my Before and After pictures. It should heal up with minimal scarring.