This evening I got a phone call which solved two concerns for me. One concern was finding my own replacement for coordinating the Young Elder Dinners. Because we are a missionary branch now we do not have official callings. Rather, we have assignments. And even though my co-coordinator was the one who got the word that we needed to find our own replacement(s), this has been on my mind. When I interrupted a call with my youngest to take the call from my co-coordinator I did not know she had figured out a replacement--but she had, and it turned out to be someone I talked with in the last few days that I almost asked if she would be interested in helping with the program! So we probably have our replacement, she already indicated to the other sister that she would like doing this, and she will be here for many months! Perfect!
Since I am handling the Young Elder Dinners on my own, the co-coordinator said she would be glad to help with anything I needed--so I took the opportunity to request her help with something totally unrelated to the YE Dinners. I will be earning a pass to 3 days of Roots Tech, the huge Family History technology conference coming up next week by stuffing goody bags for 8 hours this Thursday. I have worked out a schedule to get the time off from my usual duties in the Library by working evenings all next week, and splitting up my P-day. [Yes, I will probably be exhausted!]. But I got to thinking that I had my 2 hour certification shift in the middle of opening day--and I did not want to ask the staff member in charge to find a replacement for me. So I asked my co-coordinator if she would be willing to do that certifications shift, and she agreed! She is a much better certifier than I am, so I am just delighted.
Early this morning I tried to call my Virginia granddaughter, but got no answer. A little later I got a call from her mom's cell phone--they were traveling to pick up my grandson from the farm on which he has been working since about September. His mom's birthday is Tuesday, and he will spend a week with the family before heading to the West Coast, and then to Hawaii, where he hopes to learn more about farming in a tropical climate. When I was his age I could have been right there with him in those dreams! Back a ways in my family there were others who enjoyed finding new places to go, and new things to do--including, of course, our ancestors who immigrated from Europe. I hope my grandson will enjoy his adventures.
As I talked with my daughter I learned that my son-in-law is trying to figure out how to come to Missouri for my wedding! I was glad to know about that. We will probably have wall-to-wall people in my house, but that will be fun. With my granddaughter's family also coming I will get to meet my newest great-granddaughter, too!
I enjoyed getting to know a sister from Washington state as I was going this morning to the Tabernacle for the broadcast. She was visiting one of the other missionaries for a few days. The message today was about showing love by being there for one another--very touching.
One of the talks in our sacrament meeting today was by a brother who told his conversion story. As a young adult he had prayed consistently to receive an answer from God, but without success. Then, when he was about to give up, he met a teenage girl to whom he was attracted. She asked him if he would come to the Mormon church--and he did. When the missionaries taught him, they told him he needed to get an answer for himself, and during a testimony meeting that is exactly what happened. He finally had his answer to his long-time prayer. He and that girl have now been married for a long time, and are serving a mission here in the Library.
Now that we do not have a branch choir, I am able to take more time to do indexing. I did a couple of Gernan batches today--blessedly they were pretty easy to decipher, not like the documents I tried to do yesterday at the Library. This evening I was doing some cleaning up in Family Tree and decided to check out my line that goes back into Switzerland to see if there were microfilms available for the area. I was pleased to learn that there are, indeed, films going back into the mid-1500s, which means I should be able to get sources for the ancestors through whom I am connected to Camilla Eyring Kimball and several other leaders in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It will be a couple of weeks before I actually get to do that research, but I hope the records will be not too difficult to read.
My Sweetheart was to give a talk in sacrament meeting today, I enjoyed reading it and I will enjoy hearing about how it went.
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