Absentee Ballot Arrives. 17 2016

I have been wondering when my absentee ballot would arrive, and the day has finally come.  Even better news is that the Constitution Party actually has a candidate for President and one for Vice President!  In the past I have often voted for Constitution Party candidates, but not ever for the highest offices in the country.  This time I will be relieved to have this option. I know these candidates have no chance of winning, but voting for them means that their party, the principles of which I tend to support, will at least be more likely to keep a place on the ballot in future elections. When I talked with my Sweetheart he went to the Constitution Party website, and confirmed that the things this party and candidate stand for are things we want to support.

I enjoyed singing "The Spirit of Elijah" in the Elijah Choir for our Mission Devotional.  We got a compliment from one of the speakers, and several of the missionaries I knew in the Training Zone told me personally how much they appreciated the singing.  Several of my MTC cohort spoke today.  They all did well at keeping their talks to the three-minute time limit. After devotional I decided I would check my weight in the nurse's office, and was relieved to find that I have not gained like the scale I got at the swap meet would indicate. So now I can just try hard to keep on keeping on.

I helped a Jewish guest today who asked why we do all we do for family history, so I got to explain that we are under covenant to put the world's family together.  I like to be asked so that I can then testify of this truth.

I was able to share two of the three PowerPoints I made for in-service in our Trainers Meeting this afternoon. A couple of them are based on new items that I had learned were added to the New Missionary Training Modules--and not even our Zone Leader knew about that update. Sometimes it just seems like I am in the right place at the right time to hear of things like this.

I learned this evening how to upload the photos from my iPad to my computer.  That is a relief, because I am running out of space on the iPad.  Now that I have it backed up like this I feel better about deleting the photos I have uploaded to the FamilySearch Family Tree Gallery.