What a great week this has been. It ended with us taking many more pictures than we had been doing lately and I think we have our groove back! It is sometimes slow but so worth it when the pictures look good and we know that we have served both the past and future generations by making it possible for them to be linked together. Just handling documents from the 1700s is pretty neat! This week we were instructed to upgrade our program with a new version sent from Salt Lake City. I had hated doing that because we always have a little bit of a learning curve which slows us down--and at this point we felt like were would be at a virtual stand still! But we were obedient and as it turns out the program was very impressive and now all the documents looks very uniform with much less border around each one. Change is good--at least this time.
Once we finished on Friday we headed to the laundromat, and then home so I could get our house cleaned before our much anticipated company came for a visit. I also baked about eight dozen Chocolate Almond cookies--just to kick it up a notch! Gotta feed our Sunday School class--don't worry they will only get a few of cookies each and the rest with be shared with the Elders and Sisters. By the way I baked eight dozen but dropped one dozen as I went to put them on the table to cool. I love cooking!
The very best part of the week is that Bill and Bev arrived at the port in Boston after their cruise this week from Canada along the coast. Seeing Bev standing on the sidewalk when we drove up was the most wonderful feeling. We didn't stay in Boston because we have that planned for later in the week but we came back to the apartment and visited for a while and then ate lunch and headed to Sharon, Vermont to show off the beautiful Joseph Smith Memorial. We have been there many times but I think today was the best because the guide was a Senior Sister and she gave us a grand tour which included a ride on the golf cart to see several other Mack family properties where homes once stood and now just the foundation remains. Be sure to check out the blog later on for some great pictures we got to take while there. It is amazing to me how I feel each time we drive up the road and see the beautiful memorial in honor of a great prophet for our dispensation. It truly is a unique, sacred, and holy place to be. On Monday we plan to drive up to Portland, Maine and them come back down the coastline. We also plan to take them into the archives and put them to work one day so they can get a feel for what we do each day. Mostly we just want to spend time with two great friends who we are happy to call family. Because they had been on a mission for over a year before we came on ours it had been a long time since we had seen them but it didn't take Scott or I long to remember how much we love being able to hang our with special friends who just happen to be family. Life is good. Have a great week!
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