Somehow when I waved my magic wand so that my blog would somehow get written, I discoverd that it didn't happen. I wish there was an excuse for laziness, but there isn't one, and I can't even think of a good excuse even if I wanted to.
The Mission is going fairly well and we are even able to help guests now and then. The summer crowds at the library must be waiting for cooler weather as they have not materialized yet. Our Friday nights are slow for the most part. We continue to realize that there is so much more that we should be learning and doing. I just hope that when we leave here in about 8 months that we can use what we have learned to help others. Lorene spends a lot of time trying to make corrections to her family tree and also trying to get families put together that need to be put together. As for me, I am making some progress, but most is on collateral lines. However, I have been able to put a third great grandfather together with his wife and children. One of my most difficult tasks is my maternal great grandfather, I have his marriage record and death certificate but they do not provide enough information about his family.
Our family seems to be doing well without us, and life is improving for some of them more than others. Blessings came when two of our daughters interviewed for different jobs in the education field and both were hired with full time jobs in Cedar City, Utah. Cyndie will be working at Southwest Applied Technology College in the student success program and Laura will be teaching English at Southern Utah University.
I am going to turn this over to our local Editor in Chief for correction and embellishment.
--Steve
We had a wonderful opportunity on Monday to help the Family Search Department by teaching the new employees how to work on their family trees. We were each assigned an employee to work with, given access to their tree, and had about 3 weeks to prepare to help them find names of people in their tree that need work done. It was a great experience which we have volunteered to do again in about 6 weeks.
On Friday, we decided to go to the Church Office Building cafeteria for lunch. While there, we ran into my cousin, Brent Eggleston, who works for Family Search as an engineer. We had a nice visit with him and found out a little more about the major change that they're making tomorrow morning. (Actually, it starts at midnight tonight.) For those of you who don't know, the system has been needing to be upgraded for a long time because it's functioning far above it's capacity. It's a miracle it hasn't crashed.
We also had a family come to the library that evening that had a wonderful experience. I happened to be at the greeter desk (the front desk where we greet people that come onto our floor and ask if they need help) when this family were leaving. The missionary who had been helping them told me that the mother and her 3 daughters had been to the library earlier that day, then when the dad came home from work, the youngest daughter (about 8 years old) wanted them all to come back with him. They did, and he was able to find records for some of his ancestors. Another daughter was able to find records for more members of the same ancestor's family. They left very happy--all because a young child wanted her dad to come to the library.
This is a great work, and the hand of the Lord is in it. We're so grateful for the privilege of being a small part of it.
