THE NAUVOO TEMPLE

Is this not one of the most beautiful places to be?  We've been fortunate enough to have visited there multiple times now, and hope to go at least one more time before moving out of state.

The edifice, itself, is breathtaking, but the Spirit inside is indescribable.  The spirit of peace and holiness, shutting out the cluttered world of everyday life, if for only but a few hours.

I know it's not the original, but being built to almost exact duplication, I could not help feeling the spirit of my kindred dead, who had, perhaps, sat in the same pew as I--or at least in the same room--over a century ago.  Someday, I will get to meet them and listen to all they can tell me about the daily happenings in their lives, living with the Prophet Joseph Smith, in Nauvoo. 

 

The Printing Office in Nauvoo

 

POISON IVY 10....CALAMINE LOTION 1

LETTER TO MY SISTER...
This itching has been driving me crazy, so I pretty much do just
what has to be done, ice my arms and legs down, slap on calamine
lotion, hold my arms out straight for it all to dry, and pull my tops
away from my stomach so the fabric won't make it start itching
again! :-) It has been SO fun! It is going away, but it is SO SLOW!

I went into your favorite store yesterday--Dick's 5 & 10--to see
if they had received their order of Fels Naptha soap. Remember
that from getting ready for Girls' Camp? We had to have a small
piece of it in our First Aid Kit in case we got into poison oak. Anyway,
their order had not arrived so the nice clerk showed me their hand-made bars of lye
soap, made right here in the Ozarks. I was desperate, so I bought
a bar. Did you know it's good for poison ivy and you can even use
it for catfish bait? Who'd a thought....

So I scrubbed my arms down with that, and now I look like a fish!
It did help the itching and swelling, but it made my skin look all
scaly and dry. I'll take that for now, because it's better
than the itching!

People have been looking at me a little strange, probably wondering
what skin disease I've contracted. It's kind of fun to see the
expressions on their faces.

Nighty-night for now!
Love,
Rache'l
oxoxox