Service

Thank goodness for one 13 year old boy! I tried to help fix a broken microfilm reader, got it all torn apart then was in a real pickle! My sweet companion was in a priesthood training so I wanted to feel useful. Just about that time a little boy walked by the family history center and asked if I needed help. Of course I said yes! One hour later and he had rescued me totally. He was so smart that he figured out how it fit back together and how it worked. I was AMAZED and very grateful. Then we checked the other reader and it did not work either so we hit knuckles together determined to fix it too. We were an expert team by then and fixed it in record time - 30 minutes. We were great friends after that. He was so cute and I was so grateful to him. Here is a picture of me and another occasion looking at the broken microfilm readers. You can appreciate that these machines are no small task to tear all apart, let alone put back together and have them work properly again.

Saturday we had a wonderful day working in the family history center. One of our consultants was assigned for the day, but asked to be excused because he was going back to the temple after several years of repentance and was going to do family names all day too. We were in town so we told him we would cover for him. We were happy to help him. We had a great day serving others. We call our work in the family history center the first session of the temple because the names have to be prepared before we can take them to the temple. There is always a spirit of gratitude in the family history center. We love it there. We got our regular hugs and kisses of thanks and even a few tears of joy. To top our wonderful day off we saw our consultant friend after he came out of the temple and he was floating! He said he had been grinning from ear to ear all day and had a wonderful experience for himself and for his loved ones gone before him. We have watched him work on the names and dates of his ancestors for some time and now he was bearing the fruits of his labor. What a wonderful experience we are privileged to share with others. Another day in the mission field on this beautiful island with these beautiful saints.