Sept 2, 2013
Happy Birthday last week to Micah Vehrs, Bill, & Gaye. This week
to Darece!
We have had a wonderful week, all the normal activities, phone support,
indexing & the public library. We have had several appointments with people
for the first time. AB is a sister who is a convert, so has a wonderful tree
to research. These are the kinds I love, the original research is so fun &
exciting to me. Our evenings in the FHC were busy ones, with 4-6 people in. We
so enjoy working with the different patrons!
Today we had 2 youth classes, one is just finishing up. In August,
the Come Follow Me lessons were on families & Family History. We taught the
youth in one ward for the last 3 weeks. It was a fun group, we enjoyed it &
we felt they did also. In another ward, the second group of youth started a
series of lessons. They have worked on finding names before & are excited
to learn more! We also had two adult classes today, at the end of each group of
classes, we do several workshops so people can work on the things we have talked
about. In these today were couples in which the husband is a convert. During
these, the wards announce that anyone in the ward can come in & work, an
open library time for members to asked questions, etc. Today, we also had
several people drop by the library, just to say, “you have inspired me, my wife
and I started indexing again after 2 years. Sure felt good” Some of the youth
thanked us for helping them get temple names saying “Doing my own family names
changed me” We also shared a story from the Heber City, UT girls camp where
thousands of YW from 12 to 18 yr old attend for a week. A YW with cerebral
palsy with only the use of her right index finger has indexed 400,000 names! One
person with love and desire can perform miracles even when severely physically
challenged!
https://familysearch.org/blog/en/community-corner-indexers-share-stories/
link to her story.
Last Tues evening, there were lots of missionaries around the church
from the Riverton, Thermopolis, Worland area, waiting for vans. It was their
turn to go to the Billings MT Temple. The Zone leaders came into the FHC to see
if there was some service they could do? They were visiting with Bro Croft
& asked him “How his mission had affected his family?” After sharing it,
they desired that he share it at their next Zone meeting, but guess what? It is
in Riverton? So that they didn’t forget details, when they retold it, they
requested that he write it up for them. We have decided to include it with
this letter and post it on our blog.
Dad and I went to Big Horn Lake, Crooked Creek bay area on Friday
morning cat fishing in our boat from 9:30am to 12:30. We had a wonderful time
together while catching several cat fish of various sizes, none large enough to
eat however.....
Fall is in the air the past few morning with temps in the high 40’s!
Plus we attended part of the Lovell Bulldogs first football game where Whitney
and Kaitlynn danced at halftime.
We love you all & have a great week! CTR
Bro & Sister Croft
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