Powerful Singing, Good Dinner, Assignment Finished for the Year! 11 December 2016

 I was grateful that the first indexing batch I pulled up reminded me to look at German marriage records for legitimization of children as well as for the marriage information.  I sometimes wonder if I really should do the German records when I have forgotten about things like that.  But I console myself with the knowledge that the arbitrator will probably catch what I might miss--and now this particular item is on my radar.  In addition, the previous indexer had made a different error b y identifying the first image as a duplicate--and it might have been from a previous batch, but that does not count.  So as long as I remember what I was reminded of, there is a net gain in indexing.

Music & the Spoken Word presented music which was quite emotional for me.  Some of it was from the Concert that was given last week Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and some of it was of Christmas songs that I remember from my childhood. So the nearly two hour was quite powerful for me. Thpere was a special recording of the Luke 2 Christmas story in Spanish and German at the end, so that was a treat.

The longer time meant very little time before I was off to choir practice, as we were starting 15 minutes early.  Then there was a special practice during Sunday School, but we got preempted by a different branch, so we did not make it through the entire program for next week.  The angels will probably help us--they usually do.

After our meetings my Cuban sister and another sister and I hosted two young elders for dinner.  The elders were very complimentary about the food, even though one of them has had much the same dinner the other times he came.  The other elder has only been here a month, so he did not realize that they are only supposed to stay for an hour.  He said, "You have good food, and what you have to talk about is very interesting!"  [I gave a short version of the miracles that brought my Sweetheart and me together!]

After the elders left, the three of us prepared the signup sheets for January's Young Elders Dinners, and took them to the sister who distributes them.  She had the sheets for me to process and pass on for next week's dinners, which I just completed.  Since we will not host the young elders on Christmas Day, and not on the first Sunday of the month, my duties are completed for the year!