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We have been in Nauvoo, on our mission, for one year now, officially!  That seems so hard to believe.  We are making plans for the end of our mission, preparing for this summer's hectic pageant schedule and all of the new summer missionaries that will be arriving in a little over a month (30 of them) from late April until November.  So many things left to do these next few months.

New leadership in the Engineers here at the temple will necessitate changes in the way we do things around here.  Not sure how that will affect my schedule but it will probably be changes for me, somehow.  Should know about that in the next week or so.  Change is always somewhat difficult.  Most likely we will loose the once a week online day and go back to all engineer, all the time, as we were before the winter schedule.  Not sure if the new head engineer plans to change things yet.  Too many things going on in his new world to ask those kinds of questions, yet.  He has an audit from Salt Lake this Thursday and he is expecting that to be pretty difficult, at best.  Then after mid-April, we start a two week shutdown and another annual inspection so things will get even worse.  The temple opens back up the first of May with the new Spring schedule and preparations for the pageant schedule to start in July.  Lots of things start popping in May and this place starts to warm up/get crazy in a lot of different ways.  Summer is not too far off.  But, we are "veterans" of last summer and there are only a few of us from last summer.  The low numbers of people at the temple attending sessions will be a thing of the past until probably December or January.  We will be gone by then.

We had a brand new couple of "winter" missionaries show up on Saturday, the Thompsons.  They will be here for a year.  I think they are the last of the 12 month missionaries for this winter.  There may be another set, not sure.  It seems odd that they will be here after we are gone.  Most everyone, until now, will be leaving about the time we're done.  Now they are staying after we're gone.  Now that is just weird!  We will be leaving about the time all of the summer missionaries are leaving, early November.  It will be quite an exit then.  But, it will be our time to head out.  And, I'm thinking, none too soon.  Gotta get Kevin on to his next big adventure and the next part of his life....

Till next time...

Just some of the pretty stuff beginning to come up everywhere around the temple.  Well, if the deer don't eat it...