Expecting Snow. 27 November 2016

Snow was supposed to come in today, but we seem to have just gotten rain showers.  The chance of snow tomorrow is 90%--we will see if that happens!

I woke up early, and got up to do some work on the Family Tree, both in FamilySearch and in Ancestry.  [I am not sure that was a wise choice as I fell asleep during the talk of the third speaker this afternoon in sacrament meeting.] Putting titles on the memories I have attached to Eppingen records will be a time-consuming job, but I am progressing on that and have worked out a system to make it a bit easier.

At choir practice we got our first introduction to most of the Christmas music we will be singing.  Some of it was unfamiliar, but did not seem to be too hard.  We sang today for sacrament meeting, and I was glad that one of the sisters who, like me, was singing alto previously came to join the second sopranos.  She has a strong voice, and a great ear for the music, so she kept me on track when she was right next to me.

I learned some new tips during the FamilySearch Sunday School class, especially when attaching sources.  Our new instructor gives us half the time to work on our own things, so I almost always pay attention during his instructions, and I am well-rewarded when I do. [I have developed a bad habit in my old age of not paying strict attention in classroom settings.]

I was introduced to the sister who will be helping with the Young Elder Dinners, and who will take my place, presumably, when I leave in 5 months.  I think we will work fine together.

I made fried apples to take to dinner with my Cuban sister.  She fed me rice, fried cabbage with meat sauce, and salad.  Then we topped it off with mint patties, my habitual contribution to our usual Sunday suppers.  In two weeks we will feed the young elders again, and have our new helper be our third sister.  We will only have two weeks to feed the young elders in December, because we will have a branch Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve.

Got to talk with my Virginia granddaughter this morning, and my youngest this evening.  Just waiting now for my Sweetheart to call.  I started a batch of German indexing--death certificates from 1862.  I actually prefer the older church records to the civil records, maybe because I have done so much more of them.