What a great week. We have been talking about increasing our number of documents that we take pictures of and so this week we thought we would try to do an extra 200 pictures which would make 1200 pictures that we take of documents each day. We met the goal quite easily and when we started checking the time we realized that we are still finishing up at the same time as we finished when we were only capturing 1000 documents a day. I think it was Elder Holland who said we would be surprised to know all the angels who are supporting us. I think they are definitely in the archives! We often hear about hastening the work and we are proof that you can put two people who are definitely not very computer literate and came into the record preservation program very hesitantly and for the first month we could barely get 500 copies done in a day to the point where we are easily accomplishing our goals and still have time to get home and take a nap before dinner! (Whoa-that was a long sentence!) This experience has been a great reminder that life is good.
Yesterday we attended the Boston Temple. What a beautiful building and what a wonderful day we had. For us the uniqueness of this temple is the diversity. We met a couple from Finland, several people from Africa, an older couple from the Philippines and several from various Asian countries. Boston is a diverse city and so is the temple. We are also experiencing all of the flowers and trees who are getting dressed up for summer. I hope to put some of the pictures of that on the blog this afternoon.
When we got back from attending the temple we decided it was time to clean our car. That is a little more complicated when you live in an apartment. We took paper towels, Windex, a wet soapy rag, a wet un-soapy rag and then drove to a car wash so we could vacuum out our car and then clean all of the interior. That was doable except that we didn't have enough quarters! Once that problem was solved we got busy. The sad truth is that although we have the fancy mats we have serious salt build up from our winter and although we tried hard to get it off we weren't successful. I guess when we are back in Victorville it will be a fond memory of one of New Hampshire's harshest winters.
In less than a month we will be seeing Andy and Angela and the kids. Can't wait to show them how beautiful it is here. We have enjoyed seeing long row boats and canoes and kayaks up and down the Merrimack River and lots of people walking and jogging around. Everyone here seems to take advantage of the few months they have of nice weather. Right now our worry is black flies and mosquitoes and of course the ticks that carry Lyme disease. Everyone we talk to tells us another horror story but we are okay because we survived the winter just fine! Have a great week.
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