Missionary Moments #21, January 25, 2015

We had our first red letter day this week when we photographed our 5,000th probate file.  We were excited because that was something tangible that we had worked towards.  We are struggling a little because of not having the materials we need (file folders) because the archive is in the process of moving thousands of boxes around while new shelving is brought in to replace the ones that were coming apart.  When that is done they will move all of the boxes back onto the shelves.  On top of that two of the archive employees are gone and one got another job so our poor leader is doing much of the moving and directing himself.  We have just over two boxes with documents that need to be photographed and then we won't be able to go any farther until they can get the file folders we are needing.  We are almost done with all of the new boxes they brought in for us as well.  We estimated to the Church that we will finish up the county we are working in about late April-early May.  Once that is done we have completed the Rockingham County probate files.  Our next project will be to do Hillsborough County which has the two largest cities in the state.  We will work on that until we come home next year and I'm not sure we will even finish that up.  We enjoyed a trip to McIndoe Falls, Vermont on Monday.  That is where the Duncan side of the family lived and worked and where they heard about and joined the Church.  It was a beautiful area, even covered in snow!  We decided to come back to Concord a different way and were excited to see people skiing down a huge mountain.  I heard that the snow in Utah is better for skiing (from a New Hampshire native!) but they were definitely enjoying their experience.  The snow we got wasn't as much as they had predicted and we only had about four inches on our car.  It stopped about 11 a.m. yesterday and then we have had occasional snow flurries.  My biggest worry was that our electricity would go out again and so far that hasn't happened!  I was glad we don't have church until 1 p.m. so all the roads are de-iced before we get on them.  We had a great time this week with our two sets of missionaries.  We took the Sisters to dinner on Tuesday and the Elders to dinner on Friday.  I can't express enough how impressive these young people are.  Just hanging out with them for an hour makes us want to be better missionaries!