Time Warp

"So," I asked her on a recent visit.

"Now that your mission is over and you are back home, what do you do with your time?"

She smiled.

"I'm working feverishly on my family history," she said.

And then she added, "My own living family is so messed up, that I'm trying to straighten out the dead."

She laughed.

"It's lots easier."

Winner: Funniest Statement at Family History Center

In two years of a mission and a couple of months volunteering at the family history center, I had not heard a statement quite like this in referring to doing genealogy.

I call it: the honest remark of a person trying to work on family history as we have been commanded to do...

The shift leader asked me if I could help Dody, an older lady. As she sat down beside me with her papers and flash drive,she said, "I'd rather have a pap smear than do this!"

Ah, honesty...gotta love it!