New Calling In Life

I've had a couple things on my mind this past week that keeps coming up over and over again.  The first of course would be my new calling in life that I received.  A couple weeks ago I told my sister, Terry, that I was ready for a new calling in the church.  It was too hard being a teacher in Primary when you have been a Primary President twice.  Little did I know when I made that statement to her that the new calling was going to come quickly.  The following Tuesday I had an appointment with the bishop and received the call to serve as the First Counselor in the Primary Presidency.  Well, that is one calling in life that I haven't ever had.  The new president, Natalie, is very energetic and seems to be a go get it done person.  I'm looking forward to serving with her and the other sisters that have been called.  I'm old enough to be a mother to all of them but hopefully they will all keep me young.

I've thought a lot during the past week about an incident that happened at the Family History Library last week.  A man came into the library and I asked him if he needed help.  He told me no, he knew what he was doing and would be okay.  He worked for a few minutes on his own and then he did ask me a question.  I can't remember what he asked me because I couldn't believe what he was doing.  He had been coming into the library for the past couple weeks and they had gotten him started creating his family file.  The method they had taught him was to open up his PAF file on one side of the screen and open up New Family Search on the other side of the screen and type the information you see into your family file.  I looked at what he was doing and all I could say was, "Really!!  They taught you to do it that way?"   PAF is a way thing of the past.  It is the dark ages.  It is 19th century.  I have a hard time believing that people still try to use it.  There are at least three programs on the same computer that he could be using to do the same thing faster.  I quickly got him started working with Ancestral Quest.  I'm an Ancestral Quest fan.  He was a much happier family historian doing the same work on Ancestral Quest.   I have just been in total amazement that they taught him that method to do his family file.

Remember on my second post about our Memorial Day adventures in Spanish Fork cemetery?  Remember the little card we posted at some of the families headstones?  I had someone respond to the card and wants to meet up.  She lives in Bluffdale.   We'll have to set up a family meeting.  That should be fun.

I received my own personal badge for FamilySearchIndexing for helping with the 1940 census indexing project.

I also received badges for helping with the states of Alabama, California, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, New York, North Dakota and Utah.  Volunteers have only been working on this project for two and a half months and already it is over 50% complete.  Awesome accomplishment and it makes me happy to be a part of it.