Changed Forever - The Nauvoo Pageant
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- Опубліковано 12 жов 2024
- The LDS Church invites paid and non-paid talent to perform the Nauvoo Pageant each summer in Western Illinois. This is a short version of a feature length documentary I shot in 2007 with a Canon xl2.
The "Nauvoo experience" is NOT to be missed ! Whether it is seeing a pageant, doing work in the temple, or just a simple visit to soak in the history of the place -- there is nothing else that can compare.
The fruits of the spirit show forth clearly.
June 30-2006, Bongo Bear and I rolled into Nauvoo to assist (help) the Pageant Staff, and we left for home August 5-2006. And all these years later, it is just as the title of this video says, nearly 15 years later, we have been "Forever Changed". What happened there was sacred to all participating there. How do you go home and give a talk in Sacrament meeting of your experience. You can give the talk, but the audience wouldn't understand what you were talking about unless somehow, Spirit was speaking to Spirit. So to those of you that I served with for 6 weeks during the Nauvoo Pageant-2006, you are my eternal friends, and I do miss you!!
What's really cool is that the young man at minute 10:50 was Joseph Smith in a church video in 2005,2008, and 2009. The 2005 one is called Joseph Smith Prophet of the Restoration. The 2008 one is Emma Smith My Story and the 2009 one is the John Tanner movie.
4:04 😢😢😢☝️☝️☝️✌✌❤❤💪☝️🙏🏼 yep I'm in tears! God bless your heart! God bless your heart thank you for sharing this I'm a few years late but I'm very grateful find this video and it definitely is known that the beautiful gifts of the holy spirit is through each and everyone of you and this little girl who's probably older now but for her understanding in tears of emotions different emotions be understanding of what she feels is miraculous and yes an emotional day for y'all as you've been together doing this and the spirit is so real within each of you God bless you and thank you! I'm bad emotional too and I'm 49 years old I Cry and I weep and happiness fills me each day and some days I struggle very hard being terminally ill and with emotional times that I cannot control I'm thankful that heavenly father will never give us more than we can handle and I just keep praising Jesus through everything in every day and not letting anything take that away from me ever! This world is not good but they're more and more beautiful hearts in this world that we all stick together as Brothers and Sisters in Christ love one another and continuously lift each other up in prayer and I agree in prayer with each of you in the name of Jesus for each day and for anybody reading this I thank you or just to know that we are so unconditionally loved and let us be those lights that shine and continues to shine for others thank you Heavenly Father for your son Jesus thank you Jesus my Savior Our Savior for the gifts you've given us in the Holy Spirit and / every day that we are here and Eternity will be beautiful and until then I want to live to love to laugh and to give all of my heart two others in the name of Jesus praying miraculous peace that passes all understanding in the name of Jesus amen hallelujah
My family and I had the opportunity to participate as part of the Green Cast in 2018. What a wonderful experience! Not sure why this video showed up today in my UA-cam feed, but it was certainly enjoyable to watch and brought back wonderful memories and the spirit I felt while there.
I love everything about this video! It makes me so excited to be in the Pageant this summer! I can hardly wait.
❤❤❤❤ I'm a little late here by a few years but I'm happy and very excited to share my testimony and just a little bit of it because I tend to ramble so trying to make it short and March 24th 2018 I was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and for years I have never even thought about asking any questions as my sister married a man who was a member of the church but was not active and even years before that during the Gulf War I was married to an Army soldier and we lived in Germany and he was in Iraq during the Gulf War and I babysat for a lady named Tiffany and I wish I could remember her last night but she dropped her kids off so she could go to the temple in Germany and needless to say many hours later she came back but she left me with the Book of Mormon I told her that I only believe in the Bible and what is this? She said it is another Testament and I looked at it it collected dust after that and I did however keep the video that she left me 1989 version of Saturday's Warriors and that video spoke to me and it was so beautiful the songs everything something about that video kept speaking to me and many years later I lived around the world I was a flight attendant a mother Louisiana is where I call home currently living in Wisconsin I've been nondenomination the majority of my life and I was baptized into the non denomination Church in Janesville Wisconsin then living in Louisiana I was baptized into a church in Baton Rouge called Bethany nondenomination and many years later I finally asked a question because to me the missionaries walking up and down the streets reminded me of Jehovah's Witnesses so I never asked any questions I assumed and my lack of acknowledgement just left me not knowing anything the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints it wasn't until my sister my twin died and my younger sister stop going to the church and years later she came back to live with me and Wisconsin and before she moved to Fort Bragg North Carolina she went back to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the night before she was to move to North Carolina I asked her a question about the temple and what was this big deal about the temple? She shared about the baptisms for the Dead and in that instant the spirit hit me so hard that I jumped up in the air and shouted happily! I knew there had to be more to all of this! I just knew it! That's all I kept saying and then I asked her that if she would call those girls at the church and would bring them to the house when my sister was moving because I was afraid of going into panic attacks and depression missing her and living alone again and she said you mean the sisters? I said??oh they are related.. of course my sister chuckled a little bit and said no they are called The Sisters the missionaries and the male missionary are called Elders because when she told me that she would have the elders come out as well to give me a blessing and I thought to myself now I am terminally ill and it is hard enough for me to move and I certainly will not have anyone older than me traveling to come and see me! My heart thought that I needed to go to these elderly people and pray with them and she then again kind of laughed at me and said no sister they are younger than us they are just called the elders the male missionary LOL so my brother-in-law was able to take leave from the Army to come to baptize me and my sister stayed back to watch her kids and it was such a blessing and such a miraculous feeling I will never forget and that was March 24th 2018 since then my health has gone downhill pretty fast and I know my twin is my angel because before she died we were taking a nap and talked about talking after the nap we took we've always talked about death and dying together but if one was to go before the other we would always find ways to let each other know that we are with each other in spirit! During that nap I dreamed we were riding Dolphins holding hands in the ocean and it was very beautiful and I told my boyfriend about the nap during that I had the dream of my twin and I and then I received a phone call saying that she had died during that nap! Many struggles from there and my sister leaving the church and then going back to the church after a family argument of me telling her enough already! Stop living in yesterday stop hating and living today and that brought her back to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints which brought me to asking her questions about the temple in the church and leading me to my own baptism March 24th 2018 and then she would come visit me and we promised we would go to the temple for my endowment and the Chicago Temple is closed for the summer and the nearest Temple other than Chicago is 5 hours away in Nauvoo Illinois and that was my first choice to begin with and we made the plans to go sometime this summer and then I got pretty sick with the temperature of 103 and normally my temperature is 97 and long reality short it took them 6 hours to revive me out of septic shock and almost dying and with my tumors disease with no cure hundreds of tumors along with several illnesses and I'm a walking Miracle when I can walk LOL so I was on the phone with my sister while I was in the hospital during those six hours I still didn't know the severity of what was going on with me and my sister had said she is on her way and I thought to myself why I'm always in the hospital it's all good! Then I thought I was she's coming to take me to the temple for my endowment and then I heard the nurse tell me to get off the phone immediately telling my sister who is also a nurse but I am crashing! So my brother-in-law was granted emergency leave to be by my side with my sister and their kids and my niece and the chaplain was actually in my room at the time that my sister was trying to get help with the Red Cross and any help for the military to release my brother-in-law to take emergency leave so God was so much involved in all of this and made it all happen in such miraculous ways from the chaplain in my room at the exact time my sister was on the phone asking me who can help and how and I need to talk to somebody there and the chaplain overheard the conversation and said I will make everything happen and he is not a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints but it didn't matter because that chaplain was the Saint by helping get my sister hear my brother-in-law and when I stabilized I went from the hospital bed and no shoes a skirt that was torn and a tank top and looking very bad! My brother and mom borrowed me his high top tennis shoes and my sister took plenty of pictures 2 remember the seriousness of me talking to the bishop then from there going to the stake presidency and getting my recommendation that same day and the next day at 3 in the morning for a five-hour drive to Nauvoo Illinois from my endowments and to church members to beautiful sisters from the church immediately took off of work and traveled with us that 5-hour Drive in less than 24 hour notice it all happened and I had a few ideas of the Temple and not going to classes as much but I already understood and my faith understood Spirit strong and yes I am ready and I'm looking forward to this and nothing bothered me nothing was out of the ordinary for me everything was beautiful from the time that they will be in on a wheelchair to the time that we took pictures after the endowment outside of the Temple and my sister rented a cabin and we spent the night and we almost were able to see the rehearsals it was July second that day because July 1st I believe that was the Monday July 1st 2019 that I was endowed and we were going to ride the horse and buggy and that night on the first we were going to watch the rehearsals for the pageant upcoming and by the time we got done with everything we laid down and we all fell asleep and missed out on going to watch the pageant but God knew we needed some sleep and I just know that only by the Divine will of God that this all happened and I'm so grateful and I know that I know that I know that I am in the right place and I've never been happier in my spirit in my heart and soul and I've never struggled this much as I have depression and panic attacks that hits me out of nowhere but Heavenly Father sees me through these struggles I do not give up I remember my Covenant and I am thankful for them and I listen and watch Daily old General conferences and come follow me the movies the videos the Book of Mormon that is on video as I learn better by watching even though I can read I keep my sites on UA-cam pretty much 24/7 watching everything and anything and old videos from the very first video to the very first audio and whenever the sisters come over there like have you seen this video yet? Because nine times out of ten I've seen it already but it's worth seeing it again and I do watch Joyce Meyer as well and I still love my praise and worship music which I do at home and I respect Sacrament silence and respect within the temple because I thought I was going to have issues with that at first as my sister did too because we were used to doing praise and worship and being filled with the Holy Spirit and now I'm learning so much more everyday I'm growing and learning so much and that just makes me so happy to see how heavenly father loves so much and the plan he has for us is greater than we can understand and putting our trust into him into the name of his son Jesus our savior with the gifts of the Holy Spirit and discernment and not by sight or feeling but by faith I get through struggles physically and emotionally and I still ask for prayer as I will pray for all
I've just been made Pageant Co-ordinator for my stake in England for the Preston Pageant in August :)
Great performance I have worked with the Hill Cumorah Pageant for over ten years now and I can simply say there is absolutely nothing like making a difference in someones life ...Pageant does that and more
Yeah if anyone could probably use a link to view or purchase this documentary that would be amazing.
The full 90 minute documentary was never released for airing or for sale due to copyright issues with the music. The church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints owns the rights and I was only the producer. I only uploaded this version as a way to show those involved part of the whole experience. It was one of the better pieces I produced back in 2007. More of my work can be found at www.visualegacy.com
this is a shot in the dark probably but I was wondering where I could find a copy of this documentary I would love to have a copy of this Documentary. I live only a hour from Nauvoo and Love it!!! I go to the paegeant every year! Please let me know thank you so much!
11:00 Wolvie!