I forgot to mention that we spent some time at the temple Saturday afternoon taking pictures.  Well, I took pictures for Amy & Brian.  They got some nice pictures but they were on Amy's camera so I don't have any to post!  There was a nice little bunny runny around the grounds though.

SUNDAY morning, the 22nd, Jim and I went to church.  There are 3 wards in Nauvoo.  The first meets at 8:00 am and it is mostly senior missionaries.  The shops are open Sunday afternoons so they go to the early meeting
  Oh, I forgot to mention that when we were on the wagon ride it was mentioned that a lot of the brick homes are actually housing for missionaries.  There are 60 senior missionaries that just work at the temple.  That would be cool.
  Amy & Brian left for home Sunday morning so we went to the 11:00 meeting of church.  There were quite a few senior missionaries there but it was a lot like a normal ward.  The missionaries I thought maybe were some of the temple missionaries.   It is so wonderful that no matter where you are when you go to church it is always the same.  Same schedule, same teachings, same lessons, etc.
I love it.
  After church and we had lunch we wanted to go back to the brick shop and see if we could get another brick or two.  The door was open where they were making bricks so we were standing at the door talking to the Elder that was making the bricks. The first time we met him was at the Browning Gunsmith shop. His companion was doing a demonstration in another area and when he came back he invited us in.  I said that the sign at the door said "missionaries only" he said, "Oh, you're close enough" and told us to come on in.  We spent nearly an hour visiting with them as the were making bricks. I could kick myself for not taking a video but we were so involved in talking about them and where they were from and what they did I just didn't think about it.  Oh, and I didn't take pictures because the battery in my camera went dead.  Could have used my phone but didn't think of it till later.  They were nice enough to give us a couple of bricks.
  After the brick shop we went back to the blacksmith shop and I actually took a picture with my phone!

They tell about how wagons were made and how the wheels were made in the first area of the shop then go into the second section and talk about how they made horse shoes and oxen shoes.

It was interesting to hear how you can't just pick up an ox's hoof and put the shoe on like you can a horse.  You pick up his foot and he lays down!.  And the shoes for oxen have to be made to fit the cloven hoof so they are very different from a horse shoe.  In order to keep the oxen from laying down they would be put into a chute like this, have a band put under their bellies that would hold them up so shoes could be put on their feet.

They make a little horse shoe and a "prairie diamond" ring and give them out.