This was a day of issues being resolved, one in the library, and one personal. I am grateful for good counsel, and for great blessings.
I fell asleep last night reading The Book of Mormon, but I made up for that by reading at lunch and also for the first half of the time I was filling the Pager position. I am just about at the 1/3rd point, having read the Isaiah 53 recounting by Abinadi. One of my margin notes concerns Abinadi's audience. Perhaps he knew full well that Alma would be the only one to listen. Perhaps Alma was not killed immediately by King Noah because Alma may also have been in the royal family. All these cultural possibilities are of interest to me, even though my witness of the Book of Mormon is based on the spiritual witness I received in fulfillment of Moroni's promise in Moroni 10:3-5.
I learned today that one of my distant [mid-1700s] surnames might be Jewish! A Jewish guest explained that her father, who had survived Auschwitz, had changed his name from Deutsch because he did not want to have any association with anything German. Then in his later life he learned that the surname was associated with a group of Jews who had left Spain long ago, and had over the course of hundreds of years gradually moved northward into Poland and other countries. When all the records of the world come to light, what interesting connections there will be.
I actually started again on the beginning course of Polish handwriting--but was interrupted to help a guest with German ancestry. Even though she had the small locations one needs for success in research, no records for the correct time frame are now available. After an hour I asked a more experienced missionary to help--and I learned more new things.
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