Brigham Young Home Site Leader Calling

Ann with Brigham Young Home behind

Today, I (Ann) was called to be the site leader for the Brigham Young home. I have been serving as an assistant site leader there. This has been one of my favorite sites. 

Ann as asst site leader to Sister Famuliner of West Point, Utah

There is a site leader and assistant for each site in Nauvoo. It is our responsibility to take care of and watch over the assigned site. We are responsible for ordering cleaning supplies, making work orders for items to be repaired, and dusting around artifacts which no one else is supposed to handle. When dusting around the artifacts, we have to wear gloves if we handle them. As site leader or assistant, we are usually assigned to that site twice a week and also keep track of and report monthly the number of guests that visit the site.

Each morning, the missionaries assigned to each site are responsible to perform cleaning  tasks such as: vacuuming, dusting any bare floors and furniture, sweeping walks around the site, and any other general cleaning to keep the site nice and clean.

Sisters Redd & Garner with Ann

The Brigham Young home is very special to me because it has a room called the "council room" that Brigham added following the martyrdom of Joseph Smith Jr. In this room, he would have meetings with the apostles to discuss and make important decisions related to the completing of the temple and preparations for the exodus of Nauvoo.


I was scheduled to be in the Print Shop today with another sister missionary and a young sister missionary. All the young sister missionaries will be leaving in October to

Ann in Kalona, Iowa

proselyting missions throughout the United States for six months. They will return next April when it gets busy here again. The young sisters are a great blessing here with their enthusiasm and testimonies. Their assignments here include the Visitor Center, the Nauvoo Pageant area during July, the call center in the Visitor Center following up on referrals and the various sites including Carthage.

To prepare for their up coming proselyting assignments, the young sisters are scheduled to teach lessons to senior missionary couples who volunteer to act as investigators. We will be having four lessons presented to us over the next four weeks.