Productive Day, and a Nice Dinner Party with MTC Single Sisters. 10 January 2017

I had decided to go in to the Library at 8 instead of 7:30, so I could talk with my Sweetheart--and that was a very happy thing to do.

I started out my day at the Library doing more work on the Eppingen lines, attaching people to their proper families.  I returned to that work during my lunch time, and also somewhat in the afternoon.

I had some time to prepare for Study Group, and I was led to review the German topics we had not fully gone over. I found a site that had a tutorial for how to use the Hessen Archives website, and saw records for some of my Kalbfleisch relatives from Merlau. I also explored the Wuerttemberg Church Records online--images on Ancestry from some of the microfilms from FamilySearch.  Some of the indexed records on FamilySearch have the images posted on Ancestry.  There is no overt connection, but it is possible to use the two sites in conjunction with one another.

The in-service lesson on Reference Interview demo was actually quite fun.  I was delayed a little after the lesson because one of the new missionaries asked how to get to know which records to recommend.  During the Trainers meeting yesterday, as we went through and refined the PowerPoint I had made, there was some focus on the Record Finder which is on most if not all Wiki pages on individual countries.  So I was able to share that information--and maybe that will become another in-service lesson.

I had just enough time to get to the temple to do just a little work, and then I hurried home to get ready to meet the other single sisters from my MTC group.  One of the sisters felt we had each invited her to meals and she does not like to cook, so she paid for our meals at a nice steakhouse.  I have to admit that the first bite reminded me of loving in love with steak the first time I ever had it when I was 9 years old. We were visiting my grandfather in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and he took us all to a restaurant and I had steak.  Yummmm!

I had not expected that our evening would be quite so long, but it was interesting to hear the other sisters tell of their experiences here on the mission, and also in their lives before.

This evening was rounded out by a chat with my Sweetheart--and now it is time to call it a night!