There are many things I do not understand about people in
leadership positions, especially those who are following the business
plan. Our supervisor has been here since
midday Monday and most of what he said was that his sector was down in
production. I guess this was said to
make us feel like we caused it? Ever
since we got here, he has had some problem or other with our work and little
seems to please him. He will not take no
for an answer and today he met with the head archivist and other staff to
negotiate for the option to humidify the York records and any other records
that need to be humidified. He is also
talking about getting another missionary couple here to be trained by us and I
wonder how he is going to do that because when he first arrived on Monday he
said that very few seniors were opting to go out as missionaries and that the
pool of people had dried up to the point that no one wants to go on a Family
History Mission like ours.
He wants to buy the cradle and there is no name for a maker
of it so the help were called in to see who could remember when, where ,who or
how it was made. Consensus of opinion
said that it was made by a staff member who could make anything out of metal
and so the cradle was born. So its fate
is still up in the air. Manuel wants to
send it to Salt Lake City to see if there is anyone out there who could make a
similar kind of thing. I should imagine
that there is someone even here in Augusta who is good with steel, glass and
tightly wound springs who could come up with a similar object, such as this
cradle. I suspect that it was made by
some commercial manufacturer because Salt Lake sent springs for it so it must have been a
commercial venture in order for the FHC to have springs to send to replace
those that had been worn out. I found
the box of springs sent from the FHC as replacements for the ones that wore out
in usage by earlier missionaries. I
guess staff come and staff go and the memories of what was done leaves with the
departing staff…….happens all the time.
Our task, should you accept it Mr. Phelps (Mission
impossible), is to produce one image every 6 seconds which comes out to 19,600
images for one week of 35 hours. If it wasn’t
so ludicrous ……………… We will work at
our own pace, and do the best we can, but 19,600 images out of paper that is
falling apart and you have to find all the pieces that go together and do that
and snap a picture in 6 seconds is out
of the question. Tomorrow, we get to
learn how to humidify papers…..we are learning a lot on this mission.
Yesterday was a banner day – Karen Despain of the Prescott
Newspaper called me up and interviewed me about my slot canyon quilt that is in
the 100 Quilts for 100 Years exhibit
in Tucson. I was quite flattered that
she called me up. It will be interesting
to see how she translates our conversation.
Although our supervisor took us to eat at Applebees, I
really would rather have had lunch with Anne.
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