Nevada was the first state completed. Yesterday there were only 3 states available: Nevada, Utah, Oregon. I tried all 3 and I figured out how to do it. I texted Andra Garrett and shared with her my discoveries on our T&FH thread. Ramona and Lloyd both responded and Andra succeeded. I felt inspired. Tuesday, 4/5/22Tuesday, 11;47am Hello Brandon, the internet is down at the FSC so I called my sister and left a MarcoPolo and then my brother and left 5 vmails and now I am using the word processor on the computer to write you. :) @ My T&FH committee leader is Lloyd Simpson. He is over 70yo and will be in the 1950 census which we are processing right now. He has served as a HighPriest group leader and because of his nudging and teasing I am an Italian indexer! Anyway, He has purchased Croshaw pies for our treats each month we have met. The pies are about ~$15 each! And he usually buys 3! Can you imagine? @ Well knowing our meeting was this week on the 2nd Sunday I called him Friday and an we visited for 20+ minutes. He usually comes over here to visit me in person and said my ears must have been burning. I like to support people in their callings and phoning him was an example of that. @ Anyway, I bought a 2lb sack of Snickers fun size bars last Halloween that I haven't opened and have wanted to use as a treat instead of his expensive pies. He accepted. But he told me this was not a long term solution/precedence. Brenda Fifield has also been concerned about the expense and suggested we take turns. Loyd tried to stop me from explaining this at the end of our committee meeting but I blabbed. I like to give credit were credit is due and anyone who will treat us every month to pie at the cost of about $45 deserves recognition and applause. :) @ There are 44 fun size bars in 2 lbs. I poured them out across the round table at our feet and told everyone we were playing a game called: Overfill your hand! Instruction: grab as many as you can and whoever gets the most wins! I was so pleased when Andra Garrett showed us how to play by bulldozing tons together with the heel of your hand and then grabbing them. @ I had cut open the bag with scissors at home before putting it in my satchel and carrying it around at church and choir practice so I could ride straight to Lloyd's house for our meeting. By the way, Andra won the game with 4. As you can tell no one really "went for it". We were missing our two priests who are attending a temple prep class with the Lambs. @@ Lloyd wanted me to present how to Review Names for the Census in 5 minutes. The bigger the screen the better I told him. He figured out how to hook up a ~36" screen and I had him run the computer while I pointed with a pen at the things I wanted them to look at on the big screen. It was like we had presented together dozens of times. I discovered that method back when we did our committee training here at the FSC in February. Josh & Brooks & Amy & Brenda were the ones who ran the computer and I used the laser pointer and guided and explained. @ Reviewing Names is set up so it can be done by cell phone! You don't need a big screen. The program moves you to the next blue highlighted name and you fix it or approve it. No scrolling! A m a z i n g ! So on Saturday I realized I hadn't tried it on my cell, so I did. That really paid off. Thank heavens I had talked to Lloyd on Friday so I had an idea of what was in his mind and plan. That way I was interested in seeing if I could work it on my cell. (12:20 internet still down.) @@@ Robert was out of energy Sunday and invited me to drive to his house for a walk and talk. Zonos hired a young man from Vietnam. Robert is in charge of training the new guys. Teen, (I'm not sure how it is spelled) has accepted Robert's friendship overtures. He has gone hiking with Robert (but it is a new experience for him and he tires easily), he came to Robert's baby blessing (that was a first time he had ever entered an LDS church), and Robert took him to find some hiking shoes. It took weeks for Teen to decide. He had never purchased shoes before. The ones he uses every day were given to him by his brother in Vietnam. He didn't even know what size (9) he needed! Can you imagine only having one pair of used shoes? The story Robert shared with me was darling. I know Louis is generous and kind and understanding with his people as well. It makes my heart swell with pride. @ I toured Amber's 3 tiered garden while I waited for our walk, Sunday. I had fasted from Friday night and decided to try a huge leaf of Swiss Chard. It left a bitter aftertaste but they invited me to harvest some after our walk. I harvested the 10 hugest leaves you can imagine. They barely fit in the plastic grocery sack. I called Louis on my way home and dropped three off at his house. I cooked up the remaining 7 in oil and they shrank down to nothing. After cooking there was no bitter taste. @@ Louis offered to come help me figure out how to water my row of peas. He knew of a drip line with holes every 6 or 12". He came on Tuesday and again on Wednesday to help me finish it off! :) While Grace was at dance from 6-7 on Tuesday he and Lincoln came to help and show me Lincoln's new Artificial Reality headset. Lincoln turned 12? on Saturday March 26. I used to teach my students about this coming technology back in the early 90's. Now my grandson has a headset with wireless hand sensors to game with! @ Bonnie had had stomach pain and been unable to sleep the night before. She texted Louis while he was visiting me that she had an appendicitis and had to go to the emergency room and have it removed. Louis asked if I would come watch his kids, (babysit) so I spent 7-12pm with Lincoln and Grace that night. I haven't babysat them for years so it was fun to see how they have grown. I asked Louis if they did "timeouts" anymore? A minute a year is what Karen does. Clayton may timeout for 3 minutes because he is 3. Louis says they no longer do timeouts. After studying he said that the kids just sit and fume and don't learn anything from it. Discipline means to teach. He said there are better ways to discipline. I read a different book to Grace in her room and then to Lincoln in his room. Grace joined Lincoln on his pillow for Lincoln's story. Lincoln wanted another story but since they had had a conflict during the first one I was done reading. Of course they promised not to continue but, no thank you, that was enough for me. Louis had extracted a promise from both of them that they would not fight and cooperate with me. When I had first arrived I asked Lincoln to go find a book we could read together. He agreed but after reading Dr.Doolittle with Grace he got sad and resisted. He proposed we play a reading or math game instead. I agreed. He taught me how to play “Farkle”. It took a while but he was a great teacher/explainer. That was my first time of having him teach me how to play a game. Grace had a fit and took the score sheet while Lincoln was using it to teach me. I was surprised and took it back. She cried and called Louis. Louis explained to her that she had had her time with me and that it was Lincoln's turn now. Grace ended up picking off the funny eyes that had been on their family picture. I did not stop her. It is above the fireplace. Louis had warned me that Grace was fragile that night. @ Lincoln wanted to call his dad after his bedtime story. I don't know how many times they ended up calling Louis. Louis called me 6 times. I was thinking about him the next day and had to call and tell him what a blessing he was to his family. My patriarchal blessing tells me I will be an anchor for my family. That means a ton to me. I described for Louis some of the ways he is anchoring his family. What would his family be like without him! @ Grace wore pajamas to sleep, Lincoln wore blue undies. When he came down to find his phone to call his dad he was unselfconscious. I have not tried Lincoln's headset yet. @ I asked Robert and Amber about AR and they both reported. Robert tried it back in '98 at Eric Yunker's house. Amber tried it at Trent's house about 5 years ago. She said it gave her an almost immediate headache. @@@ I went the extra mile to get our EQ counselor to attend our T&FH meeting Sunday. Alex G came late and left early. He said he had just finished dinner when he came in. Lloyd had a person to person conversation with him when he came in. It interrupted everything but Lloyd focussed on him. It is sad that Alex has not carried the messages back and forth from the committee to the EQpres and bishop. It had been a difficult barrier/challenge for Lloyd to deal with. Here it is April and the questionnaire to start the year has not yet been approved. Alex admitted it has not even been discussed. OOPS @Andra reported that at our stake training 2 weeks ago (March 27) the main push was to get people involved. To start doing the things our ward is already doing. We couldn't help but cheer Lloyd along! But he defrayed/side-stepped any credit. :) @ Brenda wanted to compliment her girls: Amy and Anna. Anna did her last 11 year old training by herself because Brenda was sick. 1:20 internet is back!
I have worked in all the states they have opened so far. :) 4/14/22Thursday 12:10 Good Noontide Brandon! Did you notice how the colors changed from the top states to the bottom states. At first they thought 100% done would be the dark brown. But then they realized that 100% done on “Name Review” was really only ⅓ done (33%) because there are two more steps: Family sorting & Header checking. I have tried the Family sorting in Oregon and it is long and detailed! Instead of just checking a name, you have to check block after block of all the data recorded on the census page! The white states above are the ones available for Name Review. @ I got a delightful letter from you postmarked 4/6/22. I was so pleased to have you thank me for hanging in there with you through all those years of your depression and infrequent responses!!! That meant the world to me. Thank you, thank you, thank you! I texted KJ and told her how surprised and pleased I was to hear you had access to KBYU !!! Yippee! @ George Clarke and Sherri Schwabb (friendly greeters and shift coordinators) have teased me into watching “The Chosen”. I asked 6 different people to watch it with me and I had no luck. So I started watching it on my own. I have done the first 4 episodes. #4 was the netting of the fish episode and I finally realized who Simon is really going to be. . . I had never considered him to be a gambler so it was really a stretch for me to recognize him. Andrew so wanted him to believe and come see. I asked Sherri Scwabb if Mary Magdalene was ever really possessed? She had me look it up and sure enough she had been. How did I miss that part?
Happy Passover/Easter Brandon! I thought I was being helpful when I carefully selected 5 emails to invite to a music concert in the Tabernacle tonight. Then Lloyd Simpson pointed out it was last night and today is not Friday! OOOps! @@So I was shocked last night as I learned from Book of Mormon Central Easter podcast that. . . On the 10th day of Passover month each family picked a lamb without blemish and took it home. On the 14the day it was slaughtered, blood used on lintel and door posts and roasted and eaten with bitter herbs and unleavened bread. Guess where it lived during those 4 days? With the family! Can you imagine a darling little lamb to entertain your children and be a part of your family for those days and then. . . goodbye? I was appalled at this new insight. Male’16 and Female’18, were visiting this afternoon while Dad Morgan worked on his back garden. I told them a bunch of Moses stories and ended with the passover. I held up Hace with his long curly hair as an example. I asked why that was done? Then I had a better question: How do you think HF felt when Jesus was crucified?
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