Another Week

This week has been a good week. Monday, I went to the Joint Efforts water exercise class. That is the class where we move more slowly. When I woke up Monday morning I didn’t feel like rushing to get to the 9:00 water aerobics so I waited until 1:00 to go. That way Karl was able to go with me too. He can’t go at 9:00 anymore because he is helping (tutoring) the first graders at Tiebreaker Elementary school in reading. He does enjoy doing that. Tuesday, I did make it to Silver Sneakers exercise class. Even tho’ we sit on chair a lot and march while doing so or lifting weights etc. it amazes me how much I need it. It is challenging enough for me while I am doing it that I know that it benefits me to go. I know a few people whom it has really helped also. One woman used to have to use a cane and no longer does. And I’ve met people that I wouldn’t know otherwise whom I really enjoy associating with. One woman, I found out grew up in El Paso and her dad used to be my Grandpa and Grandma Hurst’s bishop. It is a small world.

Wednesday of course we went to the FHC. I went to two classes that day. One was on Mary’s Genealogical Treasures which can be found online. Brother Wulf explained that anything you would want to find that has to do with genealogy or family history you can find a link to from her site. She also has links to all of the LDS scriptures temples, etc. Yes she is LDS. The other class was an advanced PAF class. Brother Larsen taught it and there was a gal there who is a professional genealogist and she helped him with it too. It w as on the importance of listing your sources of documentation for the information you put on your PAF program. I need to start doing that. When we took the class from Renae Ellis in 1988 she really stressed documentation and we got copies of all of our birth certificates and blessing certificates, baptism certificates, etc. I had wondered how those fit in with the PAF program. He also helped me straighten out some things to do with the class I was to teach on Saturday.

Thursday we went to silver Sneakers again (the first time we’ve gone both times in the week since we started back last month) and then I went visiting teaching. I go to Ethel Baron by myself because Amy Smith is my companion and she is working full time now and can’t leave until 6:00 pm. And Ethel wants to be visited in the late morning or early afternoon. We went to see Sharen Stech. We are also assigned to her mother who used to live with her but she is now at the assisted living facility, The Turtle and Crane on First Street. So it isn’t much farther to go. I also usually visit her alone too because Sharen and her daughter are usually there in the evening and I don’t think she needs four visitors at once.

I got the results back from my Feritin level. It was 40 which is still within normal limits but it had dropped from 169. I would think that much of a drop would make me drag. I’ll find out at our doctor’s appointment we have Tuesday, October 30.

Friday I went to the 9:00 water aerobics class. It was the first time to that class since the Friday before. I worked hard and didn’t do too much until it was time to get ready to go to the temple that evening. It was zone conference with the missionaries at the FHC. We were asked to be in our seats all dressed in white for the chapel session then go to the 7:00 session after that. It was very special being there with those people. There was such a special feeling there. The sister who spoke to us, Sister Myers, I had just met Wednesday evening at the center. She took Sister Sylvester’s place from 5-9. She’s a very sweet lady. She made us smile. She was referring to the wives of King Benjamin and Nephi. Since their names aren’t given in the scriptures, she called them Mrs. Queen Benjamin and Mrs. Nephi. I tho’t, “that’s a clever idea; I’m not so sure I would have tho’t of it.”

That night after we got home from the temple, I worked on my PAF file for awhile and tried to back it up to my flash drive so I could start where I left off when I worked on it at the center the next day. The light on it kept flashing off and on (it had never done that before) and it took forever for the hour glass to go away. When it finally did a sign came up that said it couldn’t find the R drive. (Kim had helped me change it to that). I tho’t what gives here? I went into my computer and it had nothing on there. I tried to back up my PAF program to it and a sign came up that said that the R drive had been corrupted. I had about seven or eight things on it—one of which was the ancestry stuff that I had gotten from Bryan last August. Don’t ask me why but I never did transfer that to my hard drive and I certainly should have. I will be able to eventually retrieve it when we go there again next May if not before. Everything else I have on my hard drive except…..I was to teach a class on updating your records thro’ temple ready. I had made a file of 32 people of Grandma Hurst’s ancestors and deleted the ordinances so I would be sure and have some to find while teaching the class. I was to show the class how to prepare the ged.com file, go into the program, retrieve the ordinances that have been done and then how to restore them to your program. I just about panicked! I tho’t what do I do about my class? How do I get my PAF program to the center? Then I remembered that we had gotten Karl a flash drive, one gig, about a month ago. I didn’t really think he needed one but he wanted one and we got it for $10 so….I was so thankful that we had that. So I made a new file for my class and backed it up to Karl’s flash drive as well as my PAF program.

The class went well. There were no patrons there but seven of the missionaries were there. Two of them told me that I had done a good job and that they had learned something. That was rewarding. However, I was glad when it was all over.