Week 10 and 11

Hello to my readers, Sorry that I didn't get my weekly update out last week due to college starting back up last Monday, I have gone to part time mission since I am in school. The school life is alright so far, classes are good this semester . Still I have time to work, go to school, ward activities, and a mission. Talk about being crazy busy right now. I have to give the though on Wednesday for devotional at the ROC and I have been thinking about what brings me joy and so far I have come up with family history. Still in the thinking process.

It may seem like I have a ton of time on my hands well sadly I don't. There comes a time in life when you have to focus on homework and a mission. Work is good, I have been working two days a week. It has been a crazy week and plus I have zone conference tomorrow.

Week 9

I love this gospel and the insight it has brought into my life and I enjoy sharing my talents and time with others. Mainly, a service mission has taught me so much about my self within the two months that I have been on my mission. Feels like time is going by fast and seeing how I am constantly learning something new each day about my self is pretty exciting. Since I go back to college on Monday is when classes starts. 

Yesterday was our monthly celebration. The name was called  Our Summer Bash and it was filled with different kinds of salads. I mean who knew that you could make potato salad so many different ways. The main dish was sloppy joes and I have not had one for a long time. Yesterday was a very exciting day here at the ROC. Although it may have seemed like a normal day here with other missionaries here. 

I am so very blessed to be serving a mission and being surround by others that are serving missions some of them are have done more than one mission. Plus you never know what you may find out about yourself and how you can apply life skills that are needed. Oh I almost forgot I get to speak in my ward on sunday about my mission and plus my favorite general conference talks. 

Sister Barton 

Week 8

Missionaries come and go. Here at the rock we are so very blessed to have those that come and go. The best thing that has happened this week is that Sister Worthom and Sister Potter have each played jokes on Elder Payne. The joke was a rubber snake under some advertisements that have coupons in them. Lets just say he wasn't expecting it and it was very funny. Elder Payne sure does live up to his name and  well he is the practical  joker.  The second time sister Potter and Sister Mart each took part in this joke. Needless, to say they took turns with the use of the rubber snake. Sister Mart put it on Elder Payne's chair, Sister Potter put a black snake on his keyboard and when he saw it he just jumped. 

I guess you can imagine for yourself the practical jokes that are played on new missionaries come from Elder Payne. This morning after our scripture study Elder White started jokes and lets just say the jokes were really funny, then Elder Jones came by for a visit to see how the YCSM missionaries are doing. We are good just that each of us have blossomed in our own way. With all the jokes that were passed around today my favorite would have to be the one about the Lamanites and Nephites. The joke goes as follows what do the Lamanites use to eat off? The nephites have the plates. 

This week has been full of jokes and gaining new missionaries. We have a new Elder and he does a mission here at the ROC and also at the DI. So far from what I can see he is going to be a very good missionary that will fit in here very well. Well I have to get back to Indexing or Zoning. 

Sister Barton 

P.S. This month's theme is How Great Shall Be Your Joy 

Week 7

Highlights

• Two months serving a mission
• New project at the ROC

Can you believe that I have reached two months already? it is crazy to think that I 16 months left of my mission. As I sit here thinking about these last two months I have been keeping track of the time that I am spending here at the ROC. I have a understanding of Family History and how it just takes asking grandparents questions when it comes to doing genealogy on my dad's side of the family. Not too long ago I came home from my grandparents house over by Beaver, Utah with a box of Genealogy books some with duplicates and some that are out of order.

The latest project that my mission has started is like waypointing only we have current newspaper articles that only about eight of us look at. We then decide if they need help in being resplitted or if they need to be cropped. It is fun and of course it is the number one priority right now and these records come from the El Paso, Texas server. They are fun to do but we are only required to work on them for about 2 hours each day. As far as I know it is to help those that are in Texas and plus it is just like zoning, the only difference is that we are putting images or articles back together and cropping them because the computer has cutting tool that says " I don't know whither to cut the black line or this other line".  Another way of thinking about this project is when you read the morning paper that is not online and is delivered to your house in the morning. When you first open the paper you see the crease and that tells you where you need to cut the paper in half.

That is all I have for this week. Until next time.