Sleep-deprived Brain is Forgetful. 30 December 2016

Last night I awoke after 4 hours--and could not get back to sleep until after 5 and had to get up at 6.  That used to be pretty typical, but I have become used to getting 6 to 7 hours of sleep each night, so less than 5 was not happy.

I was able to function OK at the Library, I think--a few glitches at times, like not remembering how to do the in-service lesson as a slide show.  But I got another in-service lesson completed, one which I had been struggling over.  In talking with two of the Church Service Missionaries I was led to say things that seemed to help them with some personal challenges. And I got several Eppingen relatives entered into Family Tree.

Today was the meeting of the committee for the reception for the couple who will be getting married in February. I am not sure that this will actually help me with my own reception, as my ideas about such things are not very typical, I think. It will be interesting to see how it all works out.

When my time at the Library was over, I wished I could take a nap, but a friend had asked to go to the temple with me, so I just had time to go to get her and get back to do the session my Sweetheart and I had planned for.  Things went pretty well--until we were walking back to the parking lot, and I realized that the key to get into the parking lot was in the car, along with my phone.  The other sister had a phone, but I had no way to access anyone's numbers out here, because my records have been transferred back to my ward in Missouri.

Blessedly, the person on whose window I knocked in the other apartment complex believed me even without seeing my missionary badge, and she came around to the entrance door and let us in.  When we got back to the car, I noticed that my Sweetheart had texted already--so I called him and our friend, whom he knows quite well, got to talk with him while I drove her home.  Then I was blessed to get to talk with him for a while, and we did get to pray together, which is such a tender mercy.

I am grateful that tomorrow I start an hour later than during the week.   I hope that, as is usually the case when I have been to the temple, tonight's sleep will be better.