A New Month! 1 July 2016

I started out my shift at the Library with playing the keyboard for prayer meeting. My first position on the floor was as Greeter. That tends to be pretty quiet in the morning, so I got the Eppingen book off the shelf again, and spent the time going through many of the entries that pertain to my family. I found a couple of typos, which made some of the records very difficult to find, but I think I managed to figure them all out. Now I need to see if those families have been entered in Family Tree.  I think there is at least one line that has not been.  It has been a long time since I have had direct line ancestors to enter into my tree--exciting!

The next two hours I spent at the consultant desk with a sister who immigrated from Germany in the mid-80s. Most of the time we did not have guests to help, but one person wanted a letter translated--I could make out some of the words, but my lack of knowledge of the language overall interferes with transcribing that sort of thing.  My abilities are still more focused on names, dates and places extracted from records of events, rather than the newsy things that turn genealogy into family history!

Lunch was early today, and when I returned I was floor manager.  I actually got to help one of the access services missionaries find a place which used to be in Germany and now is in Poland--so some of my training is beginning to stick!

The next two hours I used to take a German Research class from the Learning Center, and write a report.  This is necessary for Level 2 Certification. One of my trainers strongly encouraged me to do a review of the Family Tree training, even though I just had that in the Training Zone six weeks ago. That is the last step in Level 2 Certification if I understand the instructions correctly.

I actually went into my time as Rover with the class, but that position does not usually take a whole hour.  Towards the end of the time, the Zone Leader asked me to write a small item about studying the Conference talks for our Mission Challenge.  That was pretty simple to do, as I have read the talk by Elder Stevenson about Priesthood Keys and Authority several times.  So I got that done, and then took some time to print out some temple cards.

The 6 pm session was pretty full, but I got finished with that and got a bit done on my first person from Eppingen and was home in plenty of time to talk with my Sweetheart. I am grateful to be able to look forward to that peaceful conclusion to my day.