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Made it to Nauvoo a little after noon today.  However, found out that Verizon only gives me 1X and barely 1 bar, maybe 2 sporadically so I can't do much on the blog.  We stopped in Keokuk, IA to get set up but they are not open on Saturday so we will need to wait until Monday.  Basically, we are without much of any Internet till we can get this sorted out and get a cable modem installed.  Sorry, little to no updates till this is fixed.  Hopefully, we'l be back on line Monday if they have the equipment for us.  The temple people here say it's all self install and they usually just pick it up from the Keokuk office once they get a plan all set up.  Keep your fingers crossed.

We got up early and headed out about 7:30 AM.  Got to Nauvoo about 10:30 this morning.  We met with Sister MacArthur, the Temple President's wife.  She took us over to the temple and we met with President MacArthur.  Very nice people.  She then took us over to our apartment and let us have our choice of a downstairs or upstairs apartment.  The upstairs seems to be the best so we took that one.  Very nicely furnished.  We cleaned out the RAV4 and started putting stuff away, made the bed then decided to run over to Keokuk and see if we could get into the cable people's office to start the set up.  No luck so we went over to WalMart to get some groceries so we could have something int he apartment to eat and clean (not necessarily in that order).  Spent a bit as we had nothing in the apartment.  The gal that checked us out at Walmart just looked a bit too chipper for a WalMart employee and I had a sneaking suspicion.  Sure enough, she attends here in Nauvoo and teaches Primary here.  You can just spot a "Mormon" from a mile away.  She was very pleasant and that just gives them away.  'Course, we had our missionary tags on so we were just too obvious.  We'll be seeing her.

We got back, had something to eat, since we had only something for breakfast and it had been a long time since then, and hurried off to the temple to catch a session.  We really wanted to go through one session beforehand.  we start Tuesday morning and I'd kinda like to be a little familiar with the temple before we start then.  It really is a beautiful temple.  It is entirely different from any of the other temple too!  'Course, I can't say a lot here, but you do things differently as the rooms are spread out across floors.  However, the people are exceptionally friendly, even before they found out I was on a mission there. And it is just as beautiful as anything you can possibly imagine.  I'll share some pictures when we get back online.  One thing I had not realized is how far the Mississippi is across.  It is one large river.  Even though a dam was built some years ago (1912?), it is still a very large river.

After that we cruised the big town of Nauvoo, came home, did some more unpacking and now are going to bed...so, I will start the blog up again when I can.  See ya!