If all goes well, in 79 days my Sweetheart and I will be together in person! Tonight we may do a Skype call, and we already had a short talk this morning.
After my strenuous day yesterday, I slept very long and soundly last night. I did not the text alert when my Sweetheart was letting me know he got to work safely. I woke up once, but promptly went back to sleep, and awoke about 5:30, which gave me just enough time to read Mosiah 29. My takeaway from this is that if we ever have to make the trek by foot to Independence or to Salt Lake from Missouri, I will sleep very well indeed!
I did the in-service lesson this morning because some people wanted it repeated. Then I was a Helper, but there was no one that needed my help, so I started working on a lesson for Germany Map Guides. I use these frequently, both for guests and for myself, and I really like them, but there is always a little to learn even about familiar subjects.
The next hour I was in the Training room, and was able to send off some Basic Training feedback from one of the new missionaries. We got a response rather quickly, and the problem she spotted will be corrected.
Then one of my assigned newer missionaries brought me papers to check for Level 2. After last week's Trainers meeting I remembered to ask her how she was doing with that Level, and she said she really had not been working on it. But she began right away--until someone needed her for her Chinese skills. And she went home and worked on it, and is flying through. She said she is not sure she will use the information much, but she finds it interesting. She is an inspiration to me.
I decided to walk back to the apartment to have lunch. I was not very motivated to sit in front of the computer at lunch, as I have been noticing some eye fatigue recently. The weather was pretty nice today, and I had a warm meal of beans and wheat with some BBQ sauce and fresh onion. Then back to the Training room for a couple of hours. I was looking to see what I needed to prepare for Monday's Trainers meeting, and I decided to follow up on a suggestion for an in-service on telephone policy and procedure. I was actually surprised that I was able to pulll that together relatively easily.
The afternoon in-service lesson generated a fair amount of discussion, but was well-received. Then I decided to stay and rewrite something I wrote about 15 years ago concerning the melodies I have composed or arranged for scripture passages. That took about an hour, and was nearly four pages long! I will eventually post it on my FamilyTree person page, since maybe someday one of my posterity might be interested in it. I originally wrote this to use with CDs of my music, but now it is easier to invite people to go to my YouTube channel "Ellen Fehr" than to do actual CDs. Maybe one of my projects will eventually be to post more of my music, especially the Psalm melodies. Rewriting this reminded me that maybe there is more work to be done.
I had thought earlier in the day that I might make flax crackers tonight, but I almost did not do it. At present, though, I have two pans in the oven. I hope they turn out well.
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