Research Day & Zone Temple Evening. 12 November 2016

I was awake an hour early today, and thought of going back to sleep, but remembered that I have a letter to write to the Mission President and his wife about my three month journey with the Book of Mormon--and I had not yet begun.  I wrote several paragraphs and thought that would be sufficient.  Then I was reminded of yet another experience, and in looking up the reference I came across other things I want to include--so this will be a bit more of a project than I had anticipated.  I am sure it will be worth the effort.

While I was doing the stairs this morning I saw a notice on the bulletin board by the mail boxes for a "garage sale" on my floor.  I did take five minutes to check it out, and spent a dollar on some food containers, and another dollar on a purse.  I also got a nice jar with a lid for free--that was the best.

I am scheduled most Saturday mornings to do the in-service lesson, and today was one of those Saturdays.  There were only a few missionaries who had not yet done the Snipping Tool assignment, and all of them were from other countries.  I was able to walk them through the process without too much difficulty, and they seemed to appreciate that.

In my three hours of work on the floor today I served as Greeter and Floor Manager for two of the hours, and then I helped a guest who has done many years of German research.  As he told me of his experiences I could see why it is valuable to pin down the research to one question at a time.

I decided not to go to the apartment for lunch, but just eat a little and then begin my research in the Training room.  I spent some time verifying some Family Tree entries and correcting other entries.  During that process I realized that I had again strayed from my own ancestors to work on some peripheral lines, but I was glad I could clean up those records.

While I was in the Training room I ended up working some on Trainer tasks, and that was not a bad use of my time.  I was glad I was there to take care of those things.

I did go back to the apartment for some supper before walking to the temple to join our zone temple session.  I had not chosen to go to any of these once-a-month sessions, but today it worked out nicely.
We still are having quite nice weather--but next Wednesday or Thursday snow is predicted. The precipitation will be appreciated by the plants, I am sure.