January 19, 2014
Dearest Family,
What a great day! Attended 5th ward! Michelle was one of the speakers
& a young lady, who leaves for her mission next week! What great talks!
Had open library time during SS. We were off to Cowley for SS in both of the
wards there, with lunch in between! Both were youth classes, abt 8 young people
in each one. One class was about photos & stories, the other about temple
name submission! These youth are amazing & boy, do they respond to seeing
the pictures & stories! On young man added links to ancestors on a photo his
Grandpa had submitted. There is a special power in this which touches their
hearts!
In the afternoon, we had 2 more classes in Lovell, one a first lesson
& the other an open workshop with 5 attending. One of the brothers who
attended the open workshop, had not been into the tree for some time. As we
looked at pictures, he found a family picture of his father, siblings, &
parents. He had never seen the picture before & was amazed at how much he
& his father looked alike at age 12, a spiritual moment.
This evening we had a Mother-Daughter (age 14), who worked together on
different parts of their trees, the daughter has been in a SS class also.
Findagrave.com was their gold mine! We love to see this! A gentleman came in,
he’s a regular, but had a new memory stick his sister had sent with amazing
pictures on it! He has his time planned out for the next while, getting them
all in & linked to his family! We also had several consultants who were
learning about new things & sharing with each other! It just seems that
the whole day was just about as perfect as it could be!
Public Library Day, we each had several patrons, Had a FHE with a
family, helping them with their scanner. Bro Croft has used lots of brain power
this week figuring out how to set up the scanning software on several
combination printer/scanners. That can sure be exhausting but the inspiration
comes!
Our indexing Sisters ( the ones in their 80’s) continue to be an
inspiration to us! One is struggling with eye problems. Her eyesight is
deteriorating very quickly! She wants to continue so much & just keeps
praying that she can. And she does it – amazingly well. We are also discovering
ways we can show her ways to enlarge things on the computer screen – Computers
are amazing & made for this work!
Friday was a wonderful day in Billings, so blessed to attend the
temple! Afterwards we were at Wendy’s for lunch! A Wendy’s supervisor, who
travels around Montana was there & asked us about out tags & what we
did! Golden moment! Then later when we were eating, she came by our table again
to asked more questions!
We attended Elwood Emmett’s funeral on Sat morning, a wonderful service
done by all of his children! Mom and I went out to Pond 5 for a couple of hours
to try the afternoon ice fishing in our usual place and yes, you guessed it, she
caught the big bass. We enjoy these outings a lot enjoying each other and the
Lord’s great outdoors! Our evening was spent in prep for tomorrow!
Six months ago, we joined another site for help with research call My
Heritage. It’s specialty is more in European research. I was in there several
days ago, & noticed a response to an email I had sent to Jane Burkholtz in
October asking her how she is related. Her reply: “my great-grandmother,
Stine, is a sister to Frank L Petersen” How amazing! She lives, you guessed
it, in Denmark & is a cousin! We’ve chatted via email several times &
are looking forward to more! She does read English, and also writes it with the
help of Google Translate.
Well, this is just a short summary of a wonderful week!
Congratulations to Ethan & Bekah – they are engaged! Happy
birthday to Whitney!
Love to all & CTR Bro & Sister Croft, FH
Missionaries
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