Well, this has been an amazing week!

Dearest Family,

 

Happy Birthday, Amber!  Well,  this has been an amazing week! Now just where do I start!

    Monday at the library- JQ & I entered lots of new data into the computer!   Dad visited with three patrons too. We also had a wonderful FHE with a couple in Cowley, he wanted to learn about indexing, & is loving it. She wanted to learn about Family Search & Family Tree!   Had a great evening!.

    Tuesday helped with indexing & a "new Sister", who has very limited computer skills, but is preparing to be sealed to her deceased parents. Met with her twice & she has printed out the sheets for grandchildren to do the baptisms of several people &  then the other things can be done . . . more on Thursday. We met Joy in Deaver  to help us drive after dark & together joined Nathan for his endowment! Our family filed half the session! It was a beautiful evening!  The temple beauty was enhanced by the evening sun shining in the rooms as we did the session.

    Wednesday - helped  one of our sister's with indexing, we are changing projects & that is sometimes difficult for the older ones! We did some outside yard work this evening. 

    Thursday - we love this wonderful land in which we live!  No matter what, it is still the greatest place on earth!  Took our first trip up to the Big Horns to start acclimatizing Dad, preparing for Big Sky!  Was a beautiful drive. While walking up there, we discovered some swallows nesting in the crevases in a rock wall along the road!  We also planned to go to a 4 of July party, at least for the barbeque part, then the rain hit & the lightening, etc  We received  1.3 inches of rain in less than an hour, hail in town!  Some how, a lighting strike that hit the douglas fir tree by the kitchen (knocking the top off)came into the house thru our internet line, wiped out the ATA telephone box, (no phone service)  & the desk top computer which was direct wired to the internet!  We will get it checked out this week. Evee George was here Thur & Friday nights, she was taking CNA class at the Living Center, worked there from 6:30am until 4:00pm.  We enjoyed having her!

    Friday - Our "new Sister" & her daughter came to the FHC! I had a great time with her & Dad was inspired to do Findagrave & Google searches with her daughter!  They did a search in Google Images & up popped a 3 generation picture of her grandmothers!  It is so amazing when the spirit helps.

    Saturday - Big Horn Lake Day an opportunity for us to give service!  free boat rides - the triathalon - a great day! The weather was perfect! Altho we were doing community service, we had several asking about Family history!  Those name tags are wonderful conversation starters! When we were finishing up at the end of the day, a prominent local gentleman whom we were talking with, approached us, wanting help with his family history.  He had worked on it while in college & now wanted to learn new techniques!   An answer to our prayers! There were 120 plus in the triathlon and 455 free boat rides given today!

    Sunday - a grand climax to the week! Four FH classes - quiet,sweet miracles in each one plus – Just to share one. A young man in our class has been searching for a certain ancestor each time we meet. we told him that over one million names are added to the FS data base each day. All of a sudden he exclaimed he had found a gold mine today. He found a Montana marriage document that had three generations of info on it.  He came to the FHC tonight to enter these new names into FTree and print out the FOR to  do their temple work! Our evening was very busy in the FHC. 

    We are ending the week on a spiritual high!

We love you all & CTR 

    Bro & Sis Croft