This has been a busy and short week. Since we have begun the countdown (only 7 more days) before Andy and Angela and the kids come we are trying to take extra time each day to get more documents photographed. We won't be working for the first week they are here and hope to keep our goals intact! When Rachel was here with us I realized how much fun it was seeing things through her eyes. Now we will get to do that again!
On Memorial Day we had gone over and found the grave-site for Colonel John Duncan and so yesterday we were going to go again and this time look for two grave-sites for the Hickey/McGriff side of the family. The problem was that we got all the way down to the city where the first grave was suppose to be (just outside of Boston) only to realize that we left all of the information back in Concord. Oh to be old and forgetful! Not to worry--I did find an amazing Home Goods store and did some serious browsing and a little shopping.
It is hard to believe that we have been here for nine months now. Time truly does fly when you are having fun. This week we had lunch with the Sister missionaries from the Concord and the Canterbury wards. We have gotten to know the Concord sisters because they come and work at the Archives each Thursday. One of our sister missionaries fell last Sunday when they were tracting and had a pretty serious sprained ankle so they came in a couple of times to work with us since she had to stay off of her foot. It was really a nice experience having them all together. They are very impressive young women. Friday evening we took the Elders to dinner. Elder Seely turned 19 and we were able to celebrate with him and Elder Betts. They are an interesting combination. Elder Seely just came out and Elder Betts will be going home in July. So grateful we are sharing these experiences with such capable and committed missionaries. After dinner we went to the Stake Center where Grandpa and I were able to hear Sheri Dew speak to the sisters in the New England area. It was phenomenal and she gave a great explanation of "wrestling" when it comes to increasing our faith. Something I want to work on!
We have to do a monthly report with an estimate of when the particular job we are working on is complete. This particular project had 144 boxes and as of Friday we had completed 104 of those boxes. If we continue we will finish all of the probate files for Rockingham County by the end of July. Hooray! The next project is Hillsborough County but it has over 300 boxes so although we will work really hard I don't think we will finish before our mission ends. It will be fun though, starting back in the 1850's.
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