Things are still about the same. Go to the library and come home to rejuvenate so we can go back the next day. Last night for Family Home Evening we went to the Library to work with a Singles Ward on getting names to take to the temple. The Los Angeles Stake is having a temple day on Saturday and has encouraged people to go to the Library to find an ancestor to take through the temple on that day.
Well, working with these young adults was amazing. We usually work with older people whose hands and minds don’t work really fast. You would suggest one thing to these young adults and they would catch on immediately, just whip through the computer and, Whamo!, they were doing what you just hinted at. It was wonderful. I love the newer generation.
One of the gals I was working with had a family like mine where there was a lot of work already done and we couldn’t find anyone that she could take to the temple, but there were a lot of errors in New Family Search that need to be investigated and corrected. At the end of the night I was afraid that she would be disappointed and not want to work on it anymore, but she said “I’m hooked”. Wow, what a fine feeling. The spirit of Elijah is really at work.
I had a call at the library where someone had joined the Jewish Genealogical society just because she wanted to do her genealogy and didn’t know where to go. In reading their information they indicated our library so she called. She was just full of enthusiasm and signed up for the foundation courses. It is fun working in this field. I am working on a power point to present concerning Ancestry.com. I am hoping that we can learn enough here that we can take it back to Utah with us and help people there become confident in working on their genealogy.
Picture sets are of:
1- Destruction work on the old Mission Center. 4 pics
2- The movie star cemetery just next to the LA Branch Public Library we walk to each week. To the Library…. 2 pics. The second one is … you read it, Marilyn Monroe. Notice how pink it is. Any guesses as to why so pink? The answer is in the picture.
3- 4 shots of our trip with Earl and Jennifer Carter to the Farmers’ Market. We even found our old car prototype for electric power when we return from our mission. Yeah, Right!
4- Forrest Lawn Cemetary in Glendale, to locate and photograph my mother’s second husband’s grave, Scotty’s grave. 8 pics. We didn’t find the grave. Had the map and grave number, but no grave marker. A security guy saw us wandering all over to graves so he stopped to see what was going on, then understanding our problem, helped, traipsing back as we had then back again as we had, identifying the 3 places you see me pointing as possibilities. No grave stone. I left a request at main office to replace it and let me know about it. Nothing in the 3 weeks since then. I’ll call ‘em soon.
5- Lunch after the cemetery and Earl’s and my 45 minute walk in the heat. The heat, you read that right.
6- Mother has been watching the budding of a tree at our apartment. You see it in the 7 pics, with attention to one branch end that is close to us. I’ll continue to take development pics of it and post to this blog.
7- Finally our Tomato Plant, an Early Girl. It better produce, we have about $30 in it. LOL.
We love the work and all of you family.
Warren and Phyllis
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