Sept 15, 2013
Dearest Family,
Where do I begin? This has been an amazing week! We have
had our normal activities, then many extra’s added in. I worked at the Blood
draw two mornings, 6:30 to 10:00 a.m. Was also able to do part of my visiting
teaching. One of our sister’s had surgery, so took bread & chicken &
noodles to her. Wednesday was a study day, reviewing many things on the computer
& I studied the pedigree’s of several people I help. One amazing discovery
on LDS.org was a “Family Stories FH lesson”. It is to be taught by the Bishop
in a combined lesson with RS, Priesthood, & YM-YW. It has the most amazing
short videos & is so inspiring. There is a new booklet to be used by each
ward member to do some stories and their family tree called “My Family – Stories
that bring us together! What a sweet spirit we felt as we have studied it &
used some of the videos for training!
Thursday pm, we had an appt with a FHConsultant, JM, to
continue her training, we felt inspired to call RL, a nonmember, who exclaimed,
“I was just praying for your help, I’ll be right down” so, we had two to help!
The Sister Missionaries dropped in, they were waiting for transportation for
Sister Taylor, who was returning home after a successful mission. She is a
convert of 3 years. Sister NeVille had helped her prepare her grandmothers name
for temple ordinances on Wed. She & I found a great aunt she could also
do. On Friday, before leaving for home, she went to the Billings Temple and was
baptized for both! The NeVilles happened to be there when she completed this
and shared in the joy which she felt! She told them, “now there are three in
her family who were members of the church!” President Meacum, Billings Montana
Mission President, also shared this experience with everyone at Stake Conference
today, & expressed the joy which she felt!
When we arrived home at 5:00 pm, there was a message from
a High Priest Group Leader whom we had been trying to meet with for 6 months,
wanting to meet. We returned his call. He and his wife wanted to meet at
6:30pm. He is beginning to catch the vision of this great work and will inspire
& direct his ward. We met with another HP Group leader this afternoon,
& he, too, is catching the vision!
In addition, Stake Conference was amazing! President
Jordan, Temple Pres, said, “Family History will improve your whole life”
speaking of all aspects of it bringing the Holy Ghost into our lives. Elder
Rhodes of the 70 quoted President Hunter, “We need to receive both halves of the
blessing” To continue, he stated that to increase the influence & presence
of the Holy Ghost in our lives, we can 1st: do Family History & 2nd: improve
our marriages. He also reminded us that if we have more names than we can do in
our temple file, to immediately release them so that those waiting can receive
the blessings. Then on Sunday, he read the quotes of Elder Scott & Elder
Bednar where they promised “that the youth and adults will be protected against
the influence of the advisary by doing this work” Aren’t we all in need of
this protection?!.
Bro Croft felt inspired this a.m. early to call a certain
Bishop. After trying several times, he called one of his counselors who replied,
Bishop has been trying to call you? When the Bishop was reached, he proceeded
to express what he wanted to do in his ward for a 5th Sunday Lesson this month.
Bro Croft asked him to go to his computer into LDS.org , there in the FH
section was “Family Stories FH lesson”. a new lesson just released this week
that was exactly what he desired! They both shared their spiritual witness of
this great work & the Lord’s hand in it! About 30 minutes later another
ward’s first councilor called with the same request. Some days its hard to
believe what we experience as the Lord moves this work forward in our stake! We
are so grateful to be a small part of this awesome experience with our saints
here! We witness this FH work (all areas eg: indexing, photo & stories,
genealogy, oral history, journaling, Family search/FTree) are true and blesses
all who do it!!!!
We love you all & CTR
Bro & Sis Croft
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