First week-day in the field!

Monday, November 30, 2015
Wow - our first week-day of work in the mission field. How exciting. We had plans to visit at least 3 people today- but hit a snag (got to love this kind of snag). We went to Evergreen Public Library where we knew they had a Genealogy Department and met with Sherry Johnson who is in charge of that department. What a GREAT lady. Boy does she know a lot about research in the South!  By the end of our visit, which lasted until after 3 pm, she started talking about all the historical organizations in 17 Southern Alabama counties. She is going to hook us up with them, so we can learn from and also show them what familysearch.org can do to help them - as a FREE resource. I think that alone could keep us VERY busy. She is so involved, knowledgeable, enthusiastic, and seems to be excited that we will work with her 1-2 days a week. What a treat it was for us to meet her and become friends. I told her we hoped we hadn't oversold ourselve but would work hard to assist her in anyway we can. Potentially this will give us opportunities over the next year to work with many people and not only give presentations to groups but have time to work one-on-one to teach others FamilySearch. Great way to start out!!!