This has been another wonderful warmer week

February 2, 2014

Dearest Family,

   Happy Birthday this week to Daeja & Kenya!!!   It is their 8th & 10th birthdays!  We excited for Bo & McKinzea’s wedding coming up in 20 days and Ethan & Becah on July 19th!  It is a wonderful time & we are so grateful for all of you & the great decisions you are making!

    This has been another wonderful warmer week with all the usual activities!  We awoke to 4” of new snow on Saturday morning that gives us 9” on the ground – we have had snow cover now for 2 months. I enjoyed some yummy smoked fish – I have a sweetheart who smoked a fish we caught last week!

    There has also been some different experiences!  Bro Croft helped on older brother finalize his contribution of records of relatives shipped into Siberian prisoner camps. These will be digitized so that they are available to others. It is great that we can donate these items so that they can be made available for others to use & be preserved!    I enjoyed an afternoon of sewing & remodeled Amber’s wedding dress for her sister!  After several weeks of problems with my laptop, it is finally repaired, Dell has done a great job! We are grateful it is still on warranty!

    This week was the Kickoff Fireside for this years Youth conference “Faith in Every Footstep....Now is My Journey”, it will end with a trek at Martins Cove/Sixth Crossing.  Several youth spoke & shared special testimonies of finding & doing the temple work, of experiencing the excitement of learning about an ancestor & what they had learned by going on the Trek 4 years ago!  What a great spirit radiated from them.  They are encouraging each youth to do a baptism for an ancestor. They also want them to find a story about someone who has been a “pioneer”.  This can be anyone who has gone before them & prepared the way! We are excited to be a part of helping with their activities prior to the Trek in June!

    We are becoming busier with preparations for the Family History Day that will be held on March 22.  The video presentations for this will come from the 2014 RootsTech Conference going on this week in SLC!  We viewed this conference for three days last year on the web and it was awesome!!!  What a blessing to have it available world wide this year! We are working with the FHCenter  directors, HP Group Leaders and FH consultants to get this all organized.  Registration for it is just beginning. We are excited for this activity!

    We have had several special experiences this week which testified of the sacredness of this work.   Today a young man who is becoming active again was doing some searches for information.  He found a World War I Draft Registration form for his great grandfather.  The grand father was from the Star Valley area. The interesting part was his occupation. He was listed as clergyman for the LDS church in Canada. He was receiving an exemption because of his occupation. We assume he was serving a mission in Toronto, Canada.  As he found this & other records, we could see his hearted being turned to these family members.    In another class, with RS & Priesthood,  a Sister shared with me that her husband had found pictures of several grandparents whom he had never known or seen pictures of!  Tonight was an “evening with photos” in the FHC. Bro Croft spent the evening with 4-5 patrons, photos seemed to be what most of our patrons wanted to work on!   We also had a brother finding family in findagrave.com.  Go to Familysearch.org & Memories to see what is there about your family!

    Today was filled to the brim, from 7:30 a.m. until 9:30 p.m.  We are so happy to be a part of this, and love to see the people finding joy in the work & feeling the spirit of it!

 

Love to you all & CTR   Bro & Sis Croft