My day started and will end with an uplifting experience, as I talked with my Sweetheart for quite a while this morning, and we will talk briefly and pray together in a little while.
At the Library, the study group started a little bit rocky for two reasons. The first is that due to the construction on the Main floor, classroom space is hard to come by, and my group follows a German handwriting class [which includes 3 of the other 4 group members, so they do not get lost coming to the group--a good thing] that two weeks in a row has gone about 10 minutes over. Today's complication was that someone had turned off the computer-[not that this was apparent to my non-technical eyes, and even the young elder called in to help took about 10 minutes to figure out why the projector indicated no signal]--so what I had intended to present did not work out. We were able to have some good learning though in the remaining time, especially as I figured out that there was little point to presenting an indexing batch in our shortened group study when the others were already studying script.
I was able to write up our group notes and get them emailed to the other members, but I forgot to print off a copy to put into the sharing folders--I hope I remember to do that tomorrow.
As pager I had hoped to do more of the beta Family History Missionary Training modules, but could not get into the program. What might have been a sign of a down to come. When I finally did get into the program and go through the next level I did not pass the quiz. I went back in to do more study, and I still do not understand it very well. One of the elders in my group has said what I feel--until I actually do this, I don't really get it. This also reminds me that I am not really a researcher. I do great at deciphering weird writing, and I can figure out how to report things that are not working, and sometimes, like happened later today I learn about something just before I need to use it [a guest bumped me off a computer because it was the only one that had the CD database--and in a short while someone else needed the computer with the CD database!], but regular research does not really seem to be my forte.
I had a session in the training area--and re-experienced the frustration I had a few months ago over worksheets that do not match the learning modules. But now I know to whom I can go to get them fixed--a definite up!
As I left to go to the temple after my shift, I was a bit down. In the temple was good, of course, as I thought about my Sweetheart, who was also in the temple--just 1300 miles away.
The weather here has turned hot again, so I need the air conditioner to sleep at night. Maybe in a week or two the fall weather will return.
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