We’ve finished our first full week in the “mission field” of Salt Lake City, Utah. (I think that’s funny.)
While we wait for our visas I have been assigned to work in the Discovery Zone of the Family History Library. Mostly I help people set up an account so that they can begin to build a family tree. It has been fun to see people get excited as their tree expands, especially if they are able to connect into research that has already been done and they are able to go back many generations. Rick is serving in the Source Records Preparation (SRP) zone. He is reading records that have been photographed and typing the information into the computer so that it can be searched easily. Things like marriage, birth and death records. In other words he is doing indexing. So we’ve been busy working 9-5. It is a bit of an adjustment, especially for me because pre-mission I may have worked that many hours a day but I was used to setting my own schedule.
Life is different in other ways as well. We have walked .9 miles to the grocery store twice and took light rail and the bus to get to a trailhead to go on a hike. All of these things are little steps helping us to be more prepared for India. I realize Salt Lake City is much more familiar than India will be but we are becoming more used to people that are homeless, begging, disabled and mentally ill, traffic and sirens any time of the day and night. Oh, can’t forget date night at the laundromat.
We were reading in Jeremiah and came across this verse.
Jeremiah 12:5–If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses?
It said to me that if I find things daunting serving here I really need to up my game to be ready for India. I know that we are all entitled to heavenly help and am counting on that blessing.
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