Research Kept Me Awake! 22 October 2016

This was my half-day of research, and I used almost all of it.  I did get distracted into following a line that was not really mine--Zutavern just is a very intriguing name! So I forgot I did not really need to follow it back and find another generation on a microfilm from Switzerland. I enjoyed the genealogyitis high that comes with pushing back yet another generation! That kept me awake, for sure!

I had a rude shock when I found that for persons I just have put together into my line this week, someone else is submitting them!  It should not bother me, but it did.  What matters is that the work gets done, but I was counting on doing some of it myself.  Grrr! From now on I will just have to reserve the work immediately when I attach family names, and then look for the duplicates.  

I presented the in-service this morning, and also filled in as pianist for the prayer meeting.  I helped several guests this morning, even though I was a helper for only an hour.  The first hour I was Greeter, and the third hour Floor Manager.  

I was grateful that my Sweetheart and I got to talk a bit earlier in the day. He was so kind even though I had thought my lunch time was an hour earlier--Saturday the Library opens at 9, not 8, so I had mistakenly told him I would be available an hour earlier than I actually was. And then this evening a meeting went way longer than I thought it would, so we only had a very brief time to talk and pray together,  

I got to talk a longer time with my friend from Missouri who writes to me every month.  I thought it was only fair that I at least leave her a voicemail--and was pleasantly surprised that she answered the phone and we got to talk for a while.  We call each other "long-time friends", not "old friends", since we are both pretty young at heart.

As I think about tonight's meeting, one thing I am reminded of:  Our Heavenly Father and Our Savior, Jesus Christ, want to help us, are anxious to help us, improve our lives.  They are waiting anxiously for us to ask them for this help. I need to do better at this..