TRAINING AND THE TEMPLE

 Friday, 18 October 2024 

After a few days of training I think our supervisor, David Schauperl, is confident that we will be able to remember everything we need to in order to accomplish this task. 

Above: David Schauperl with Ed and Nora

Above: David training Ed on the new machine which will be his. 

We already love the staff at the archive. (I would show pictures of them but I do not have their permission) We have our own room in the archive and work alone unless we have a question or they need to share information with us.  We have already built a relationship with Sylvia who is so fun. She is responsible to make sure we have trolleys stacked with the books we are to scan and that we don't run out of work. She is always cheery and likes to practice her English on us. She says we should only speak German to her and she will only speak English to us! Ha!  That only works one way! 

During training, David introduced us to two wonderful places to eat good German food. What is interesting is that both of these places seem to be owned by either Iranian or Turkish men who speak very good German and enough English for us to communicate with each other. 

Schnitzel Point in the market square downtown Detmold

Ed eating chicken schnitzel and potatoes with vegetables. Everything is very yummy. 

We also eat at this grill which we know will be open on Mondays. Most of the other restaurants are closed on Mondays so we know we can eat lunch at this place if we want. 

The Seval Grill has good food, chicken and lamb and excellent french fries. We have discovered that the fries are not very greasy here and most places (except the Burger King on our first day) have not disappointed us. 

We trained Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday and Thursday left in the morning for David to drive us to Frankfurt to pick up our vehicle from the FamilySearch pool. It was a beautiful morning and as we walked out of the apartment to get into David's car I saw a full rainbow! It was beautiful! I said something to Ed and he turned to me so I could take a photo.  If you look really close, you can see that the right side of the rainbow ends right on Ed's head.  I told him that he was my treasure, my "pot of gold". (I realized quickly that I needed to make sure I wasn't being wordly about my intended compliment.)

The three and a half hour drive was fun and uneventful except that David did get caught on camera speeding so he will have to deal with the ticket. He travels around so much, he was not the least bit concerned about it, but it was a lesson to me. 

W emade it to the Area office/FamilySearch complex in Frankfurt and met several couples there, some of whom will be doing the audits on our work when we send in the hard drive to them each week. We are not sure how many images we will be doing, but they will look at our first month or so to make sure our work is at the standard needed by the archive and FamilySearch. 

We got our car, although the person in charge of the vehicles was not there. We are driving a Hyundai. Not as nice as our Genesis, but it is a Hyundai so I am familiar with the placement of the instrument panel. That will be helpful so I don't worry about turning on/off lights, window washers, etc. because I will have to focus on the roads, the speed limits, etc.

We will not have trouble identifying our car: F=Frankfurt; FH=Family History.

We were sent on our way witht he address to the temple in our GPS so we could get there. We had already made reservations with patron housing for us to stay one night there which we realized later was a huge blessing for us.

The temple is only about a 10 minute drive from the Area Office. We made it quickly and found the temple, like so many others, in the middle of a residential area. It would be easy to miss if it was not known. The Church has done a great job of constructing housing around the temple for temple missionaries, patrons, and a lovely walking park around the grounds. One sign in German reads "Welcome to Temple Square". 

We parked and saw some missionaries coming out from the temple and greeted them. We ended up eating together at a wonderful place we walked to. (I saw a women in the parking lot and asked her if there was a good pace to eat closeby.  She told me about a little place and recommened Flammkuchen. She said it was her favoirte thing so I tried it!)

It was very good but I haven't found it any other place yet.

Above: Missionaries from the Frankfurt Mission although E/S Burke (next to Nora) are doing Humanitarian work for the entire Area.

Above: Flammkuchen - very large, thin pastry crust with leeks, spinach and salmon and some kind of light sauce. Excellent!!

Above: Patron and missionary housing

Above: The temple

Above: Nora & Ed before returning to Detmold

Above: Patron housing room 

The wonderful thing about this experience for us this time was that the building we were assigned to is the building that has a tunnel to the temple so you can dress in your white clothes and shoes, go through the tunnel and enter at the recommend desk. (Well, you actually enter at the baptistry, but you have to go up the stairs to the desk to get in. 

Today is my birthday and I got to be in the Frankfurt Temple with my sweetheart (who happened to forget that it was my birthday). I received many greetings from family and friends. Thank you so much.  It was a wonderful day. 

Above: Nora and Ed ready to go to the temple in their patron housing room

Above: Early morning sunrise from the temple grounds.