In the Training Zone one of the sayings posted along the wall of an aisle is: "What mistake shall I learn from today????" In some ways that characterized my day, until evening when I was in the temple and afterwards had the blessing of talking and praying with Gregory.
When I got up this morning I decided to check my mission email. I am supposed to check that every day, but this weekend I forgot. I had several emails, including one inviting me to a meeting of the study group leaders--yesterday morning! Blessedly, because yesterday was my preparation day I was given the option of speaking privately with the trainer, but I had not let her know that I was going to use that option. So I actually went in an hour early to the Library, and met with her and spent some time getting prepared for the study group.
The lesson I learned is that I have to figure out a way to put the mission email on my phone through an app so that it will become a habit to check it just as I do four of my other email addresses. I have not been successful yet in getting that done, but I did figure out how to put that mail address in my iPad as a favorite, so I should notice it.
The first scheduled hour of my shift I was assigned as Monitor, the person who is supposed to stay aware of what is happening on the floor. Some of the time, however, other workers took on that role as I needed to talk with the trainer about two of the six study group members who had schedule conflicts. One of those conflicts got resolved, but the other did not. So our group was one member shy.
Our German/Slavic group has one elder who is an expert on Netherlands research and one who is knowledgeable in Switzerland. One of the sisters is quite good at German research, one is willing to take good notes and write up reports of what we are learning. Today we learned where to find Word Lists for the various countries--the lists are not all in the same location, which can get confusing, but the information will be on the report as to where to find them. We also reviewed how to find "How to Guides for International Research". There are quite a lot of those, and we will make good use of them. I was pleased that we accomplished as much as we did. It will be nice to have a time designated for study. Our list of eventual skills has 65 items, some of which will take hours to learn.
Another mistake today was missing prayer meeting again! I forgot when I got back from a late lunch that it would begin in half an hour. I was focused on sharing with the sister who missed the study group the things we had decided and discussed--and I thought it was earlier than it turned out to be. By the time I realized my error, the meeting was over. That mistake I do not know how I will learn to overcome. I will see how things turn out next week!
This evening I reviewed a YouTube presentation on relationships and forgiveness. Mark Gungor suggests that forgiveness is not an emotion, nor an erasure of memory; that it is an act that has more to do with one's tongue than with one's head or heart. His counsel, and I think it is wise, is that our attitude towards those who have hurt or offended us needs to be: "I forgive you. I will never use it against you in the future. I will never speak of it again to you or to anyone else." He says: "If you are still talking it through, you have not forgiven. You need to hush. You need to let it go." I feel this lines up so well with the Lord's Latter-day counsel in Doctrine and Covenants 64:10 I, the Lord will forgive whom I will forgive, but of you it is required to forgive all men. 11 And ye ought to say in your hearts--let God judge between me and thee, and reward thee according to your deeds.
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