This morning I really slept in--until 8! I do not remember the last time I slept that late. It was a good choice, perhaps, as I did not doze off at all on my late shift.
Once I got up and got my usual morning things done I spent a lot of time talking on the phone with my daughter and then with my Sweetheart. I was glad to have that nice low-key activity to fill my morning, as I try on this late-shift day to keep my morning pretty quiet to conserve my energy. I did work a little on studying Polish towards the end of the morning.
At the Library I worked the first hour at the German/Slavic desk. I mostly shadowed the experienced missionaries, helping out with a few small things at times. Then I was the floor manager, at a time when we had lots of guests and not many helpers available. I decided to have a specialist paged for a couple looking for Dutch records. Then I got them started looking at what was available from Family Search, and was worried that maybe I should not have asked for the experienced help. However, when the specialist arrived she took them right into a Dutch database I did not know about and apparently found for them the records they needed.
A couple from Germany were looking for the husband's great-grandfather. He came up with exactly the right research plan: "I need to talk to my Mom!!!" Getting information from older relatives is, indeed, so essential to success in our family history efforts.
Wednesday is choir practice day, so I headed over after the 3:30 prayer meeting. We are practicing for the Pioneer Day program, which we will actually present at the Mission Devotional next Monday, since the following Monday will be the official Pioneer Day holiday, when the Mission is closed. We met our new choir director, but he will not take over until next week.
This evening back at the Library I was working on my Polish studies when one of the trainers approached me and asked how I was progressing with Level 2 Certification. I decided to switch to work on that, and I finished one worksheet and was working on the Swedish case study when it was time to be the Monitor. In reality, no new guests came in during that hour so I just kept on working on the Swedish worksheet. During the last hour of the shift one of the missionaries who is from Poland approached me to offer to show me some of the resources that are available for Polish records. There is an abundance of online resources, and through one of them I saw a record with my Mom's mom's surname--quite a thrill, even though there was no proven relationship. The online records I saw were beautifully written in German, as they were from the German areas that are now in Poland. I would very much like to find my Grandmother's family.
As I checked my phone at the end of my shift I found a text from a sweet friend back home. She said she reads my blog every day--I texted back to thank her for being my second most faithful blog reader, after my Sweetheart! It is nice to know that these words are not just floating around in cyberspace unread!!! Thanks, Terry!!!
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