Week Two and still standing

Something is always happening at the St. George Visitor's Center Mission.  This week all the young sisters went to training in preparation for getting new i-pads.  They are the ones who usually take people who come into the visitors' center on tours.  While they were gone, we had to man the visitors' center by ourselves with one other couple from 3:00 to 9:00 p.m.  About 30 minutes into our time there, a Chinese tour bus showed up with 15 Chinese men wanting to do a tour.  No one could speak Chinese; luckily the guide spoke some English.  The other couple took them to an exhibit while I ran around trying to find anything written in Chinese.  I finally found some Books of Mormon and a flyer on Family Search, the Proclamation on the Family, and the page about Christ written by the 12 apostles. Amazingly enough, our Jesus Christ statue is programed to speak Chinese. We can also play our darling video on the family in Chinese.  So we did those things and let them walk around in the room with the Christ paintings.  In the end, we gave out 8 copies of the Book of Mormon.

Most of the tour buses that come are filled with people from Germany, Italy, and France.  They will start coming in May to see Zions National Park and surrounding areas.

 I thought this was such a lovely setting for an LDS church building in St. George.
While at home in Bountiful, it snowed a foot, we got rain for 3 days and then it cleared up to beautiful blue skies for the next 7 days.

Meanwhile at the St. George Tabernacle,  Scott has discovered that his cousin, William Burt, was the head plasterer at the St. George Temple, Manti Temple, and the St. George Tabernacle.  His name is on the plaque on the front of the building.  It was also his son, John, that was miraculously saved after he fell 85 from the scaffolding while working plastering at the St. George Temple.  Brigham Young had promised in the prayer dedicating the beginning of the temple construction that no one would die while working on it.

 Plaster grape bunch molded for decorating the inside walls of the St. George Tabernacle.
They were painted after being cast.  Cotton blossoms were also made and attached to the ceiling.












Scott attended the Chamber of Commerce luncheon this week at the Courtyard Marriott and felt right at home.  He is working to get some cooperation between the chamber and our sites to help improve attendance at the visitor's center.

Pam bought an annual pass to Snow Canyon in preparation for cute family members to come see us.
Everyone is busy with the opening of Shrek at Centerpoint Theater.   It runs through March.  Amy, Em, Will Hoagland and Sarah Cutler are the cutest and best performers in the show.