Old Wine, Old Skins, Old Everything – 5th Sunday

[Anonymous]

Our 5th Sunday in the YSA ward was about finances. It’s a useful topic, but there was so much focus on the whole “always pay tithing first, even if you don’t have enough for rent. act in faith and it will work out”. After my experiences with faith, I’m not going to make that bet. Other than that it’s the good advice of avoid debt, live within your means, etc.

[Anonymous]

Daughter1 wrote:

I skipped church to go to the farmer’s market. On the way back, I saw that the neighboring Episcopal Church was having an after-worship luncheon with a bouncy castle and a sno-cone truck. I considered stopping by. They provided some very needed support last summer at a time when I needed it, and I felt the spirit while visiting. And they have sno-cones.

AmyJ wrote:

But a sister in my branch and I take our kids to the cemetery to work on the billion graves project and talk – so there was ministering and family history going on.

Can you tell me more about this? I visited several cemeteries recently and was thinking that I would like to help catalog them somehow.

Happy to…

CAVEAT: I like doing this activity because a) it gives me social cover (even though I don’t think the work is necessary), b) it is helping people out who like family history, c) it is free in terms of financial cost, d) the kids can run around, e) I feel useful, and f) no crowds to worry about.

1) Download the app to your phone. it has tutorials and stuff (which I probably should have watched…)

2) Find a cemetery – we are working through cemeteries that do not have any headstone pictures captured, so we know that we are not duplicating efforts. But if you are working on a partially completed one, then you just cross reference their list for your cemetery.

3) Use the “Take Pictures” function of the app. NOTE: The linking icon in the corner links images together – useful for combining first and last names visually in some instances.

4 Option A) Use “Upload” function to upload the photos to the site. Go to the site on the desktop and transcribe the images.

4 Option Use the “Transcribe” function to transcribe photos on the spot. NOTE: I don’t know how this works.

*** You can just upload the pictures you take and leave it for someone else to transcribe. I have never done this, because I was there seeing the headstone and can remember more information about it if a question comes up.

SIDE NOTE: You can use the regular function of your phone to take the pictures, then upload the pictures into the site and transcribe them from there.

[Anonymous]

Our fifth Sunday was about emergency preparedness given the weather trends in our area. I enjoyed it. Having lived through multiple hurricanes, and being a camper, it was good to process and filter what the teacher was saying. My biggest takeway was the RV water filter for $10. You can use it with a garden hose to filter water in a large drum for drinking – in large volume.

I also spoke to the teacher afterwards, who is also a camping enthusiast. We agreed that people seem to think they need to maintain the same level of comfort they enjoy when you have power and water. I can live in a tent for a week and eat powdered food if I have to forever. You don’t need much to survive.

I could have done without the teacher giving me a “thanks for coming this week” comment when I spoke to him. I know I’m spotty in my attendance, but I don’t like it when people say things that make me feel like a benchwarmer, inactive etcetera. Just accept me as a member of the church. Thank me for participation in the class, but don’t emphasize the fact that I’m often absent.

The lesson reminded me of an emergency preparedness Sunday I led years ago. We divided everyone up into districts. But I think we did it a little better. All the people in the same district sat together, with the team captain holding up a sign with their district # on it. That was cool — you learned who your church neighbors were! You saw the whole Ward in a kind of logical diagram. I think that is of value even if the lesson isn’t on emergency preparedness. I was surprised how close many of them were to me. It created community and a sense of mutual caring.

Love the “new ponies in the stable” analogy @Mom3. I was trying to think of others….new underwear in the drawer? New bunnies in the hutch? New kids on the block? New fries in the happy meal? Feel free to give me some new analogies with amusing collective nouns

[Anonymous]

AmyJ wrote:

Happy to…

CAVEAT: I like doing this activity because a) it gives me social cover (even though I don’t think the work is necessary), b) it is helping people out who like family history, c) it is free in terms of financial cost, d) the kids can run around, e) I feel useful, and f) no crowds to worry about.

Thanks! I want to do this because a) social cover as well , b) I have looked through enough cemeteries without trying to create temple files that I know they can be confusing for people who are doing any sort of research, c) I like getting outside and walking and need new places and reasons to go sometimes. I’ll definitely be doing this over the summer.

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