Zac to Cumorah

This morning, bright and early, Zac flew to Rochester, NY, where he and 27 other young men met to travel to Palmyra, NY.  They will be the work crew for the 2011 Hill Cumorah pageant, and will work all day every day for the next week constructing the 15 level stage and setting up all the lighting for the pageant.

Then, a week from tomorrow, the cast of 700 people will arrive, and start rehearsing for the pageant.  The work crew will continue their duties, all the time basking in the attention of all the cast, who treat them as rock stars.  (But the work crew follows missionary rules, and they have to keep the girls at arm's length.)

The cast will be there for two weeks, then after they leave, the work crew spends another week de-constructing the stages and putting the whole production to bed until July 2012.

Zac is "required" to write home once a week, that will be the only contact we have with him, except for visiting him (which we plan to do.)

Our family had three wonderful experiences of being in the cast (in 2003, 2005, and 2009) and now he will have this even MORE awesome experience of being in the work crew.

Hill Cumorah Pageant website: http://www.hillcumorah.org/Pageant/

(Here I am in 2009 as Sariah, with my costar Lehi.  See the stage that Zac and the work crew have to construct in only one week.  And the light towers, which they have to attach all the lighting and wiring to in the week after that.)