I got a very nice surprise this morning as my Sweetheart called me inbetween the end of his shift and a mandatory meeting at his work. He also sent me an e-card for Valentine's Day, since my mail is being silly again and not arriving in timely fashion. We will talk again tonight, but it is so nice to have two times to talk.
One of the newer missionaries was having difficulty learning how to use the FamilySearch Catalog, so she had made an appointment to work with me on that. We spent nearly an hour and a half, until she felt comfortable with the search process. Since I felt I needed to read nearly every word of the training with her, I learned some refinements to my own search techniques--happy day!
I worked one-on-one with another missionary learning about Google searches, but we put off going over how to shelve books in the Library. I do agree with him that the worksheet is frustrating and we are not supposed to reshelve the books, so the need to learn this is not immediately intuitive. But he is willing to work on it Saturday, his other day to work.
I was supposed to be pager according to my schedule, but instead I took the place of one of the specialists who needed to prepare for a class she was teaching. That actually gave me the chance to help two guests, and at least observe an Elijah moment. The first guest wondered if she could access a particular set of online records, and I worked around a restriction for her. She had actually come to the Library to do some work for a friend, but the friend had not given her enough information, so she was waiting for a phone call and decided to try to find a marriage record for a relative who had been elusive. She found the record, and learned how to copy it and print it. She was very excited to have found the information, and a second friend who was with her said, "See? Everything happens for a reason. Because you had to wait for the other information, you found this record for your own family!"
Another guest had German record printouts that she needed to have translated. I worked with her for about an hour, translating most of the information on half a dozen records from Mecklenburg-Schwering where my surname originates. At the end of the hour I was able to page a specialist to translate a few place names.
It was my lunch hour, but I needed to contact some people concerning the Young Elder Dinners, so I went to B2, the British floor, and made those connections. Then I decided to walk home for lunch. The day was cool, but very pleasant.
Then I left a little early to go to choir practice because I decided I would go ahead with making sign-up sheets for several months for the Young Elder Dinners. That will allow the new person some breathing room in getting used to this work. Last night I did finish up a kind of spreadsheet for the process, but I learned today that transfers are next Tuesday already, so a lot of that information is likely to change! Oh, well, it was good practice.
The Elijah Choir did better with the version of "Be Still My Soul" since we had an extra half-hour of practice. The speaker at the Conference, Sister Nelson, did vary her talk somewhat. I was glad to have the opportunity to hear the different talks.
In the practice after conference we learned two new pieces, since next Monday is a holiday and we will not have practice. I like the music for both of the new pieces. After practice I talked with the person in charge of special musical numbers in our Sunday Branch meetings. I will be singing my Testimony of Christ medley of scripture melodies some time in March.
I have a batch of sweetened flaxseed crackers in the oven, and I got a load of laundry done this evening. I look forward to a nice P day tomorrow.
No comments:
Post a Comment