Training Continues

What a week it has been! We have had classes every day with our one-on-one trainers at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building (JSMB). We have come home each day feeling brain dead from all that has been poured in, hoping that we will be able to remember what we’ve been taught to use the next day. We’re each working on our “5 generations” to teach us how to use the Personal Ancestral File (PAF), as well as how to work in a new universal program called “Tree”.

Our “campus” includes all of temple square and we have so loved just being here and seeing the beautiful buildings and enjoying the peaceful surroundings.  When we arrived on February 27 there was a great deal of snow left on the ground but it seems that we brought some of the Arizona sun and warmth with us and the snow is fast disappearing.  The coldest morning we had walking to work was 27° but we were bundled up and made it to our training intact.

We attended a recital at the Assembly Hall on Friday night presented by the Choral Arts Society of Utah. We walked there wearing our heavy coats, gloves, and carrying an umbrella to keep from getting wet. We have tickets to go to the “orchestra at Temple Square” on Friday, Saturday March 22.

We attended the temple Saturday morning, the session was really large. One of the couples in the session was the President of BYU Idaho, Kim Clark and his wife.  I guess we should have tried to get close to him to ask how Meg is doing at school.  It was interesting to observe that no one in the session even seemed noticed he was in attendance.  They must have been in Salt Lake because the faculty string quartet from BYU Idaho was performing the classic works by Mendelssohn, Shostakovich and Beethoven in the Assembly Hall on Temple Square that night.  We thought for sure that we would have a call from Meg (our granddaughter who attends BYU Idaho) and she would be coming to Salt Lake City for the performance and need a place to stay. The bed was all fixed for her arrival (and it still is).

    

We attended the Tabernacle Choir Broadcast this morning as we did last week. 

During the broadcast pictures are not to be taken but at the end they give some time for picture taking.

 At the conclusion Mack Wilberg, the conductor, turns to face the audience and then off camera the orchestra and choir sing acapella "God Be With You 'Til We Meet Again." 

 It is really a great experience to be there and not only hear but "feel" the music.