The Snow Arrived! But the Cold is not Bitter. 28 November 2016

Although my experience of hot weather in the desert area of Phoenix, AZ, several decades ago belied the "it's a dry heat, so it isn't as bad as in St. Louis", the dry cold here--even with snow, has not been too bad so far.  Of course, the temps were not in the teens or single digits--if that happens it will undoubtedly be pretty bitter--but walking to choir practice and then back and forth to the Library was not unbearable.

For the Mission devotional we sang  a beautiful lilting version of "From All That Dwell Below the Skies"--it took a while for me to regain my composure once we finished.  During our practice time we sang several of the carols we are learning--also very touching.

I had study time today, and enjoyed revisiting Baden, Germany, Church Records online,  The beautifully written records from Voerstetten, Emmendingen, are the ones I "cut my teeth on" with learning to decipher the old script.  FamilySearch has the indexes, so I looked up Joseph Fehr's marriage to Christina Gross [this couple were the immigrant ancestors of the St. Charles, Missouri, Fehr lines, and my late husband's 2nd great grandparents], and their son, [his great-grandfather] Johann Jacob Fehr's, birth/christening record.  I plan to share these tomorrow with the study group.

During my time in the Training room I worked on another in-service lesson, and later in the day I prepared an assignment for that in-service and for a 2nd lesson also.  I have 7 or 8 more presentations to prepare to go along with the training modules--and then I will need to come up with about 8 additional lessons before I leave in April. A new trainer has been asked to help in our zone, and I asked her to look at and give me some feedback on what I have done so far, both for the presentations and for the assignments.

In our Trainers meeting today we learned how to use OneDrive, which will help with sharing the in-service lessons, and with other files.

I took some time during my lunch break to go downstairs to the Escalation department and get some names released from temple file.  I learned several valuable pieces of information.  Marriage sealings and child to parent sealings are not dependent on completion of other ordinances.  Female names submitted to the temple take an average of five years to complete, and male names take about eight years.  So I am very glad I am right where I can speed that up for my own family names.

When I looked closely at my schedule for tomorrow I discovered that I do not have to start until 9 a.m.  I am happy to have an extra hour in the morning to get prepared.  Wednesday will be an 8 a.m start, and Thursday, despite having P-day I have to go in at 7 a.m. to help clean, but then I can take a nap if I need to!