Happy Mother's Day to some of the greatest mothers I have the privilege of knowing. Hope you are being pampered today. This has been an interesting although somewhat frustrating week at the archives. Our supervisor came down from Canada and while he was here he had us all update the computer program that we use. Unfortunately, that has created problems that we never had to deal with before and now we have to close and open the program every time we finished our set of 500. That probably doesn't seem like much to you but it just adds on extra time for us which is frustrating because we count on that time to reach our goals each day. We are very fortunate to have Tim Mayville close by because he is exceptional at seeing problems and helping us work through them. Because of that although we are spending extra time we have started to make up that with quicker responses to other things we have to do to begin capturing documents. Last Sunday Scott and I taught our first class in Sunday School. It went well and these kids are just so amazing that we feel honored to be around them. We have a large class on the roll sheets but only about 7 of them are regular attenders. Of those seven they attend three different high schools and they do seminary on-line. In spite of that they all seem to get along well and are exceptionally bright. Today we are going to spend the time just getting to know them a little better and hopefully we will get a ward directory printed out so we can go out and invite those students who aren't coming to join us.
Yesterday we left town for the day. We visited Hartford, CT because we wanted to see the progress of the temple being built there. It was so nice to see this beautiful building being erected in such a serene place. That may seem funny to say because a busy road runs right by it but just standing there for a few minutes gave me such a peaceful and hopeful feeling. It seemed really big to me but I suspect it is the regular sized smaller temples that they are building now. When it is done it will be a light on the hill for everyone in that area. We also found out that there was a house there that Mark Twain called his "happiest home." He lived there with his wife and three daughters for 17 years and during that time he and his wife entertained on a regular basis. We found out that he was traveling to Europe and his friend showed him a picture of his sister. Apparently it was love at first sight and once he was able to convince her of that they were married! One of the things I most love about serving in this area is the incredible history that is so prevalent wherever we go. We have learned so much and look forward to learning much more in the coming months. We hope you have a great week.
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