The Savior on display in Kirtland.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Preparing the documents
The Documents we are opening to prep for filming. We put them in these boxes that have water in the bottom so that the moisture can help that papers from being so brittle.
Happy Valentines Day!
Mom is still able to entertain and serve her yummy food on the mission. They sure are all lucky
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Week Three
Well, here it is the start of our third week. My, but time flys when you are having fun. Our days and nights are full and even weekends. We don't seem to have found any spare time. We leave for the archives at 7:00 am and get home about 5:00 pm depending on whether we have shopping to do after we are done at the archives. Tuesday nights we have Institute class. We are studing Jesus the Christ and the New Testament. Our teacher studied in Jerusalem for several years and has a very vast knowledge of what took place there and of the Savior. She makes it come to life for all of us.
Thursday nights we work at the Family History Center. We had our first staff meeting last week and will actually begin our hours of 6-9 every Thursday this week. We will be able to do some of own research and work then, too. Have missed doing that. Need some more names to work on.
We have a couple of wood projects to do for down at the archives. Dad can't stay away to long. There is a guy in one of the wards here that has a shop that we can use. He said that dad could use it as long as the guy could look over his shoulder and learn a few things. We went out Saturday to find a Lowe's to see what kind of wood they have available, etc. Now we can go and "Get er done".
Boy! are some of these records fragile. You can hardly touch them that they don't fall apart. Sure wish they knew about archival paper back 115 years ago. It's a good thing that we are capturing them on images as they won't be around for much longer.
Found a neat quote the other day. "A life that is not documented, is a life that within a generation or two will largely be lost to memory. What a tragedy this can be in the history of a family." How so very true. It is so important that each family has their families history and geneolgy. For where will you get it if you don't have your own? And your kids need to know their ancestors. And so do you. Even if all you work is done, supposedly, it's not.
I am going to send or at least try and send some pictures of our trip to Kirtland to see the statues of Christ, some Amish things, picture of the different fasteners that we find on the documents (we are going to make a shadowbox out of them) and a picture of Soba a girl from India that Dad got to go help and teach and that got baptized on Saturday. She is really a neat person.
Well don't know what to tell you except that we miss all of you and you are in prayers daily. But we are enjoying serving here and doing what we are doing. Love, Mom and Dad
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