The Rains Came and Washed the Car Clean! 9 January 2017

Monday is usually a very early morning, and today I got out even earlier than usual.  That turned out to be a very good thing.  As I had suspected would happen, the rain washed the snow and ice off of the car.  I felt I needed to drive to the dollar store during my lunch time, so I moved the car close to the exit gate to make a quicker trip. Then I started for choir practice and was 2/3rds of the way there when I realized I did not have my music folder! I checked in the car on my way back, but it wasn't there, so I had to go all the way back to the apartment--where it was nicely on the table. I did learn something from this, which was that even though I was a few minutes late, there were quite a few people who came in even later. But I was glad I had gotten an early start so that I only missed the stretching exercise we do at the beginning of practice.

We only got to sing "Behold the Wounds in Jesus' Hands" one time, because our director wanted us to improve more on the hymn for today--"Our Savior's Love".  The goal is to touch the hearts of the congregation, and apparently that happened, as one of the sisters in my zone told me how it had affected her.  We still have two practices before we sing "Behold the Wounds" for Mission Conference next week.

After the devotional I was greeted by the sister who has been completing the work on the Young 

Elder Dinners.  She informed me that another sister and I would now be responsible for doing all of the tasks associated with feeding the young elders in our branch. I am not extremely surprised by this, and there was some time available to go to the mission offices and observe what needed to be done.  I was blessed in that the Young Elder who is the Assistant to the President for our branch, when he got my email to send me a list of the elders, also offered to receive the lists and invitations electronically.  I will be very happy to take him up on that offer. 

While I was there at the mission offices I stopped in to the nurses' office to weigh myself.  I was relieved to find that I had not put on any weight over the holidays--or that I had taken it back off by keeping away from sugar, and by not eating later at night.

At the Library I got some items ready for tomorrow's study group. Then I had some time in the Training room, and then an hour at the Greeter's desk.  I was disappointed that my iPad would not access the internet in the Library--and was worried that it was finally dying.  But it is working just fine back here in the apartment.

I was able to get to the dollar store and back during my lunch time, even though I mistakenly stayed at the Library an extra 10 minutes.  I had brought a bit of food with me to just eat in the car, so I had it pretty well planned out.  There was no active precipitation at the time, so the trip was quick and easy.

At our Trainers meeting I was very relieved that one of the sisters had figured out a scenario to use for inservice this week to demonstrate a reference interview.  Then I was able to share a couple of inservice PowerPoints I have prepared already for subsequent weeks.  

Back at the apartment this evening I have been working on cleaning up more Eppingen records.  I have taken some notes to help me figure it out, and I think that work is going pretty well.  

In a few minutes I will Skype with my Sweetheart, and then I hope to get some good sleep.