Sometimes I just go as far as I know how with a guest, and then I have to turn them over to someone else. That happened a couple of times today, and I was blessed to ask the right questions of the right people to find out where to send the guests.
I did work with someone who really just needed to know what to do with her family artifacts. I was able to show her some of the pictures and documents I have in my Family Search Gallery, and share some of my stories with her. I also taught her about Irfanview, demonstrated how it can work, and gave her written information so she can use it to preserve her own pictures and documents in the Cloud. As I told her, the Church is committed to investing whatever it takes to preserve family stories and documents. I showed her the audio portion of memories, since sometimes it is easier for us to talk our stories rather than write them. Although each audio segment is limited to five or ten minutes, one can get a whole lot recorded in that amount of time.
I had time to get a little indexing done, and started to submit the German batches I finished. That has been a very satisfying activity throughout the week, and I will probably continue to work on German indexing at least throughout my mission--and perhaps even after that, so that I do not lose the skill, like I had done over the past few years.
The study group member who is our Netherlands expert is beginning to work on learning the German script. I was able to mentor him and his wife for about half an hour. He really is committed to doing this work, even though it is hard and sometimes frustrating. I really enjoy mentoring--definitely in my comfort zone when I am pretty comfortable with the material.
The last guest I helped today found his ancestor's birth record exactly where it should be. That was nice, because my first guest of the day did not, even though we thought we had the correct film. Anyway, this last guest will be back tomorrow to look for the marriage of his ancestor's parents. I hope he finds them.
I went to the temple after my shift, and had a nice session. The 5 pm session tends to be small, so it goes pretty quickly. Three other missionaries were also in that session. I enjoyed thinking about times I have been in the temple with my Sweetheart. It is hard to have to wait to be able with him there again.
Since tonight is supposed to be quite cool, I decided to make a batch of flaxseed crackers--I have missed them! In less than an hour they will be baked, and I will be off to sleep.
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