November 24, 2013
Dearest Family,
Wow! Each week is the same, 7 wonderful days, filled with similar
activities, but different experiences, inspirations, successes & new
things! Today we started two adult classes in different wards. Two other
wards had classes on their own, they are ones who have several consultants
& can do them on their own, both were youth classes. We also had a first
time experience today. We had a follow-up lesson after the “Family Stories
Lesson” with RS sisters. Seven (including two brand new consultants) came in to
begin adding photos, stories, & documents. We will probably work with them
several weeks. One sister came in again after her meetings were over & we
were able to scan several photos she had brought & get them linked to her
tree. One of the other sisters was going to scan at home this week. The first
time we meet with any group, we always spend most of the time setting up LDS
accounts & recovering user names & passwords. We had the 7th of 8 My
Family Stories lesson. The spirit is great with each one of these! Our evening
was busy in the center tonight also with three patrons & 2 new consultants
who will teach in their ward next week for the first time while we are doing a
HP group follow-up lesson! They will do great!
Thursday in Cowley was a busy day also! There were 4 patrons who came
in, just right for us to work with & feel like we were able to accomplish
something. Bro Croft helped one with adding photos & another with some
indexing questions – He said that the answers which came to solve her problems
were not something he knew – so grateful to have that inspiration! While there,
I wrote a little info down about a family I had helped one man with. Things
just didn’t look right. I can home & worked on it some more, felt inspired
to go to findagrave.com & amazingly there were headstone & very detailed
obituaries – for several generations of men! Again so grateful for the
guidance. This same brother and his wife came into the FHC tonight & we
were able to work with he & his wife. We met with the two HCmen over
missionary work plus the ward mission leaders and FTMissionaries on Thursday
evening to teach them how to use FH (including indexing) in missionary, convert
retention and reactivation work. The Brethern have provided several wonderful
training videos for this purpose! https://familysearch.org/missionary/
Other activities this week included a trip to the temple, so uplifting
& always inspiring! Had lunch at Wendy’s with a couple we have met who are
ordinance works from Jordon Montana. Ethan came by for awhile to visit & we
enjoyed having him stay for dinner. We installed a new scanner in the FHC! Dad
did a little hunting this week, he put a tree stand ladder in a big juniper tree
in the raspberry patch. The deer are coming to eat the apples in the east
orchard. This AM, Sunday, the deer were in the back yard. (no hunting on
Sunday). Dad was able to spend some time winterizing things to prepare for the
coming days of colder weather. Thanks, Kenny for taking the water lilies to the
cellar, & to the cleaning ladies who came by!
A very cold week with 3” of snow, minus 5 below with only a high of 30’
and wind several days. Everyday thousands of crows fly over going to roost or
to feed, never seen so many!
We love and appreciate all your love, help and prayers in our behalf!
CTR
Bro & Sis Croft
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