Here's What. . .

In January I began working at a big box store...and I loved it.  I signed up to work 20-25 hours a week, which is what I worked the first month.  I enjoyed NOT spending my evenings home alone.  I enjoyed feeling well enough to have a little side job.  I continued to serve at the Library two days a week, and although I was busy I was determined to serve at the Library until May, which would give me a full five years of service.

The store where I was working increased my hours, because they were short-handed.  Suddenly I was working between 30 and 35 hours a week and volunteering at the Library 12 hours.  I was Thursday's where I would volunteer at the Library, and on Saturdays I worked my shift at the Library and a shift at the store.  Sundays, my only day off, I was exhausted but oh, it felt good!

I was driving home one a Saturday night after working my usual shift at the Library and working my shift at the store.  It was about 11:30 and I was tired, it was a good tired, the result of working 35 hours and volunteering 12 hours for the week.  Suddenly I was reminded of the Priesthood blessings Joe used to give me.  Two things were always consistent with those blessings, fist I would feel buoyed up enough to endure the pain and illness and secondly I was always promised I would be healed.   I never thought much about the promise to be healed after the blessings themselves, but that Saturday evening I knew because of my faith I had finally been healed. . .over 15 years later...and I suddenly felt the love of my husband who had given me those blessings from my Heavenly Father who had healed me.   I finished driving home with tears of joy running down my cheeks.

On Friday, the day before my last day at the Library, I was offered a full-time job with complete benefits.  I accepted the offer and have been working full-time, just over a month.

Physically I am doing so well.  I am gaining strength everyday and my endurance is improving.  Yes, I still have some problems and pain, but I can feel the healing within me and I am feeling better than I have for the last 15 years!

My last day at the Library was May 2, where I was asked to bear my testimony at my final prayer meeting.  Tomorrow I report to the High Council and speak in church, thus closing that sweet treasured chapter of my life.

Everyday when my alarm goes off I remind myself how blessed I am to wake up and go to work.  When I want to stay in bed I am reminded of being confined to bed day after day.  When out-of-town family came to stay and I still had to work everyday, I was glad that for 10 years I didn't have to work.

As I drive to work everyday I look at the others drivers on their way to work and I wonder, "do they know how blessed they are to be able to go to work everyday?"

My first complete week of work, I got home Friday evening and was so excited it was Friday...because I was blessed enough to work the full week and have a weekend!

Yesterday was payday, I am blessed!

Today, I washed my car and went grocery shopping, typical Saturday activities for full-time employees, I am blessed!

busy.  I was healthy enough to physically keep up with this schedule, and this brought me great happiness.   I worked everyday, but

My Mission-December 2014

Big changes at the Library!

 Gone is the reference counter. . .

and some of the microfilm readers. . .

My Mission September 2014

The Joseph Smith Memorial Building:

 We have our monthly devotionals here in the chapel in the JSMB.

 The beauty of the ceiling sometimes makes it difficult to focus on what is being said!

 The organ is from Canada and has black and white keys rather than the usual white and black keys.

 More beauty of the room

The chandelier from the mezzanine floor.

My Mission--July 2014

Not every day is a day at the Library!
In addition to working at the Library, we also have devotionals at the Joseph Smith Building and we have Department meetings at the Conference Center.  Here are some pictures I snapped in May when we had our Department Meeting with Elder Quentin L. Cook.

My Mission-June 2014

Seven Days:

Here is what the flower bed looked like when I left on Thursday.

This is what it looked like on Saturday.

This is what it looked like, re-planted with summer flowers, a week later on Thursday.

The Family History Library

"For behold, again I say unto you that if ye will enter in by the way, 

and receive the Holy Ghost, it will show unto you all things what ye should do."

3 Nephi 32:5 

This was our mission scripture for May 2014.  Each day we recited the scripture, I keep thinking about how this scripture applies to this wonderful building.  If you enter through the front door of the Library, with a prayer in your heart "the Holy Ghost will show unto you all things what ye should do" to further your research.

There are times when I have been researching or helping someone, and something miraculous will happen.  At those times I know that it is the Holy Ghost showing me what needs to be done or what needs to be found.

You don't  open a book to a page you need!

You don't  search a name and have all of the "vague" information clearly link together.

You don't  have a guest have the exact information the next guest you help needs.

You don't  "recall" something and have it brought to the front of your mind, every time you help guests.

You don't just have "genius" ideas by yourself! 

What a blessing it is to serve at the Library.  What a blessing it is to witness these miracles that strengthen my testimony of this work.   I have served for 5 years now, and the blessings are beyond belief!

My Mission May 2014

 Can you see the bird, on the ground to the right of the tree?

As I approached the Library on Thursday, I saw the storm clouds gathered around the steeples of the temple and it looked so very beautiful, and symbolic.

I love the flowers at the entrance of the Library.

My Mission April 2014

Conference flowers!

My Mission March

Exciting!  

That is how I feel the end of February when the plants and bulbs at the FHL begin to perk up!  Here are how they look this year!

The Library is making some changes!  I will keep you updated!

My Mission February 2014

The 3rd Floor

US/Canada

 Pedigree charts and maps.

 Q Books

Q books are books that are too large to place on the regular shelves.

 You can see how tall and wide these Q books are.  

View from the east window on the 3rd floor

My Mission-January 2014

“Behold, the time has fully come, which was spoken of by the mouth of Malachi—testifying that he [Elijah] should be sent . . . to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the children to the fathers.”

(Doctrine and Covenants 110:14–15)

My Mission. . .

Here's how you decorate a Christmas tree family history style!

My Mission November 2013

fall flowers are planted!

Displays on the second floor

 Time change and it is so dark when I leave!  

But it is beautiful to see the temple lit up.

My Mission-October 2013

 Past and present!

This photograph represents what is within the Library--the past, what we are researching, and the present, who we are!

Yes in life there are thorns among the flowers!

My Mission--September 2013

Old cabin and flowers