January 15th 2023
My Own Little Miracle!
I thought I better write another post since we are down to our last 3 weeks here in Nauvoo. My heart has a heaviness when it thinks about that. This has been our life for nearly 13 months and saying goodbye to places and people can be very sad. I truly will marvel at this time for the rest of my life.
In the temple there are places and times that you sit in silence not having to speak or really see anyone. I decided that I would take that time to memorize The Living Christ document. I did it! It really has been quite remarkable to have those words go over and over in my mind. I love feeling the Spirit testify that all those words are Truth. They are the words that I say in my mind as I go to sleep also. It helps me to quiet my mind and brings much peace to my soul. I highly recommend memorizing that beautiful document.
Yesterday I was in the office with only Emmie. It was a fairly busy time with many ordinances that needed to be recorded. One of the temple counselors called me and said we had a problem with the marriage certificate for the live sealing he was performing immediately. I needed to change the name of the bride from Kate to Katherine, it being her legal name. Well, I hadn't done a marriage certificate for a while and for us senior citizens, if you don't do something often on the computer, the process can be forgotten.
After I got that news, I got on the computer and started trying to remember how to do it. The Matron came in and said she needed 6 more packets consisting of several double sided pages assembled in a certain order and put into envelopes to give to the new temple workers and she needed them as soon as they could be done. The phone was ringing, patrons coming to the desk for appointments, ordinance cards piling up to be scanned...are you feeling the tension...I called Stacie the head office manager who doesn't work on Saturdays to ask her to talk me through the process and she wasn't home. I prayed.
This certificate needed to be made because the witnesses had to sign it as well as the sealer. I looked for the instructions on how to print a certificate, I found the place to change her name, I found the place to print the paper copy which you have to print before you can print the card stock copy, I printed the paper copy and then found the marriage certificate card stock. I realized the sealer's name was printed on the paper copy which needed to be blank so he could sign it, I prayed.
The sealing would be over and they needed this certificate up on the 5th floor to be signed. There is a place on computer to delete the sealer's name but I didn't have time to figure it out so I got the white out and removed the sealer's name. I put the paper copy on the glass upside down facing away and then put the certificate paper on the tray upside down facing towards and changed the paper feed drawer and pushed start. I prayed.
I did it! You couldn't tell that white out had been used (very much) and it was all facing the right direction and the brides name had been changed! I hurried up to the 5th floor (as fast as you can in a temple) and the door was opening as the sealing had just finished. To me, that was a miracle! Even though I was nervous I still was able to get it done. I didn't wig out with Emmie and I got another sister to do the recording with her and then another sister came just at the right time to do the packets.
I was so excited and happy and grateful that it was accomplished. Praise the Lord!
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