Augusta Stake conference

This is our last Sunday in Maine.  We got up really early and picked up Meredith and off we went to Westbrook for the General Session of the Augusta Stake conference.  We were there early enough for the new member and investigator talks.  These were clearly the highlight of the day.  We did not have too many people there who were new to the church, but those who were there were spiritually fed by the speakers.

In many places the trees have definitely turned on the fall colors.  We saw one maple that was flame red and others that were deep gold.  I think we need to have more really cold nights before the rest of them will turn color.  I well remember the brilliant colors of the fall in early October in Pennsylvania.

I talked to Meredith about the possibility of her coming to the Archives and doing some of the pressing out and write up of the York county files.  We may be able to get a couple of other people to come and help.  If we can get the rest of the York writs flattened and written up the digitizers who come after us will have a great time and unimpeded by having to prepare documents.

We went to visit a less active person who lives out by the industrial park but she was not home.  The last time we went there a very angry man met us at the door and slammed it in our faces.  We were not selling anything – not even vacuum cleaners – and all we needed to know was if the lady still lived there.  I guess there are a lot of very unhappy souls in the world and we ran into this one.

I guess we will have to go to the Archives via Walmart tomorrow morning because Bill’s shaver gave out.  He bought it when  we got here last year – either they are not making shavers to last more than a year or Bill has begun to grow stubble that presents too much of a challenge for the shavers.  So we will have to go to Walmart on the way to work so that he can get spiffed up ready for a hard day of digitizing.

We will be planning out our trip home this afternoon and we hope to be able to make each stop viable and to count.