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Happy 4th of July to everyone!  Hope you had a good weekend.  We worked all of the 4th in the temple until 8 something at night.  We then went just outside the temple on the front lawn.   As we were waiting for the fireworks to start and the sun to go down, we saw the sun looking like this.  For the last few days it's been really yucky weather here.  There is smoke in the air like back in Kalifornia
that has been pretty bad.  It looks and sometimes smells nasty.  Reminds me of the fires at home.  Of course, the temps have been in the low 80s so can;t complain a whole lot.  I guess that's better than the 100s.

So, after the fireworks that were across the Mississippi, which is a pretty wide river, and look pretty small, we were about to head off when the Nauvoo pageant were doing some practicing and decided to light up the temple.  We got this shot:

This is really lit up compared to normal.  The pageant has a set of lights just across the street that they have set up and they use at the end of the pageant to light up the temple for their finale.  The pageant starts Tuesday.  They are having a dress rehearsal tomorrow sometime and we're hoping we can get there and see it.  Otherwise, we work every night during the pageant so we will have difficulty getting there.  We work noon to 8 PM every night Tuesday through Saturday, the nights they put on the pageant.

Tonight was "break the fast" and we were the host family at our house/apartment.  I decided to do a lasagna and we had the two other couples bring a salad and a dessert.  Worked out well.  I didn't hear any complaints about my lasagna and they wanted some to take back for later so I guess it was a hit.  We also took some over to one of Arlene's clerical supervisor's for her to eat tomorrow night.  Her daughter is going to be operated on and she will be otherwise occupied tomorrow with worry.  

At any rate, new 40 hour work week schedule for the next 5 weeks and we'll be back into the fall schedule.  We will be doing line/ordinance work starting this coming Friday so that I don't forget what I've learned so far.  

Best wishes to all of you.  Hope to hear from you some day.