Today was a WOW day!

Dearest Family,    .

    Happy 1st Anniversary today, Ryan & Rhonda – an many more!  and there is another Anniversary this week, 48 years with my wonderful sweetheart!

    Today was a WOW day!    Busy, but so enjoyable, with so much help from above!  We witnessed the Lord’s hand in so many ways today!  We have some amazing Youth consultants, helping in several classes today! They do a great job! Two of our classes talked about Descendancy Research – love to watch the excitement when our Bro & Sis’s find names using it that they can do the temple ordinances for. One bishopric member found 6-8 names last week in class using it & more today! The Family Search program was totally down this afternoon & we still had one more class to teach.  We called FS support, & yes, it was down, check back maybe in an hour, well, it was only 30 minutes until our class would start.  Bro Croft checked his computer & did have a set of snip-it screens covering this lesson which we could use!  I tried FS again just as class members were coming into the room, & it was back on line! Miracles happen every day!  The FHC was buzzing tonight, 8 youth in to index, several adults learning more about it!  There has been snow and rain all day with temps in the mid 30’s sure could be slick in the morning if the temperature drops.

    One Youth consultant taught his Grandpa how to index, in preparation for the Meeting of the YM-YW Stake Youth Council meeting tonight!  His Grandpa is the Stake YMen’s President & the Youth consultants have invited their adult leaders to help them with their Million Names Indexing Challenge.  He wanted to get started & be an example!

    Last week the total indexed with only 4  of 8 wards reporting was almost 6,000!      Our wards are reporting to us this evening & it looks as if it could be twice what it was last week!  The snow ball is beginning to roll & it is picking up momentum & growing in size each week!   

    One afternoon, we had two 9 year old cub scouts come to the FHC!  Their leaders are always a bit skeptical, wondering how they will ever be interested for more than 10-15 minutes!   The boys were wanting more time after 35 minutes!  Bro Croft helped on young man add photos to his tree!  He was on his way home to help his Grandpa add pictures to their tree!  The other one entered the room saying, “This is fun, I already know how to do this!”  We had worked with him before.

    Enjoyed so very much a trip to Worland.  We were able to see Ira’s Christmas Program – attended the dress rehearsal in the afternoon.  It was very special, Ira did great! We enjoyed seeing Amber, Melvin, Leanne & Camille. We also stopped to see Aunt Leona & Aunt Lavon in Greybull on the way home!  So nice to visit with them!  We enjoyed our ward Christmas party & watching the local BBall games & Dance Team on TV.

   Thanks, Darece for the perm on Monday and a hair cut later in the week. Sure feels better. Bro Croft got a hair cut as well so we’re both in good shape for a few weeks! It’s been a warm sunny week with a couple days in the low 50’s so it’s melted a lot of our snow  except in the shady parts of the orchard. We finished our pday on Friday morning with 3 hours or fishing at Pond 5 at YT unit. We found 10” of ice with some water on the top from all the melted snow and the fish were really biting! We caught large mouth bass, hybrid sun fish and trout . . . . over two dozen fish in an hour. We kept several of the bigger ones to eat. A nice time to be together and enjoy the wonderful outdoors on a sunny warm morning!

We love you all & CTR

Bro & Sister Croft