Day Five -- Monday

Stick Pariahs
Today at rehearsal it was characteristically hot for Nauvoo. So it was pretty sunny during our morning practice. Everyone was wearing their sunblock, hats, and glasses. That's when it happened. We saw Alex wearing pariah glasses! We told him the story of the glasses and promised to teach him the stick. Then we were talking to a kid in our district and he was a pretty good at the first part of the stick. We're going to get him to perform the stick with Alex in the talent show. It will be amazing. Not to mention hilarious. Did I mention there's a new part of the stick dance?

An awkward FHE
Today at dinner there was this random kid. He was wearing a little mermaid shirt (yeah, a little odd), he had a brown afro, and he had recently graduated from college. He was basically a "director" of a touring "children's theater" who had stopped by Nauvoo to "volunteer" for a few days. He was really weird. Anyway, we were sitting by Sister Gee and she told him that we were going to the single adult FHE and he should "go too" (imagine it with a Syd Riggs voice)! We left dinner at this point. Later that evening Hannah and I were walking to FHE trying to find the home it was at. We were a bit lost, wandering around Nauvoo, so we stopped on a corner and pulled out our map, trying to figure out where we were going when who should pull up beside us but random kid. Brian. Unfortunately, he was wearing pariah glasses. So he asked us where the Allen's home was and we pointed him a random direction. Then he started offering us a "lift to the Allen's" but I said, "No, thank you. We are just taking the 'scenic detour'." So he drove away and we kept walking. But we arrived at the exact same time as Brian! Turned out that we were the first 3 to family home evening, and the Allen's were still eating dinner, so we had to sit in the living room alone with Brian. Hannah and I took turns asking him questions in order to give each other a break from listening to him. He was extremely stuck on himself and very annoying. We were glad to leave.