It is always great to write & ponder the activities of the week . . . .

Dearest Family!   

        It is always great to write & ponder the activities of the week and think about the upcoming birthdays & anniversaries!  It is Happy Birthday to Aunt Betty on Friday, July 31,  Happy Anniversary to Vicki & Bryan on July 31st!   It is Happy Birthday to Ethan on Saturday August 1st & Bekah on August 3, Monday!  We wish you all the best!

   It has been a fun week as we have worked with people!  We have helped several index, looked for ancestors, & lots of helping with the Apps!  It is so special to see people enjoying this  part of Family history.  Our App classes on Tuesday evenings are going great – it has been fun to have some of the Youth consultants help with those!

    On Friday we went to Billings to the temple!  What a great day it was!  Sometimes the messages there just seem to really hit home & it was that kind of a day!  A cousin of Grandma Croft’s (Evelyn), Carol Bolan, was there from Casper in our session.  She also stayed in the temple for a sealing session & was happy to do some sealings which we had.  We so appreciated her help! She had caught a ride to Billings with some friends, then stayed with other cousins in Billings. They brought her to the Cowley Reunion on Saturday in Byron! A very small group at the reunion this year as more of the older cousins are passing away and the younger ones don’t come. Dad had the opportunity to teach the Area FH Advisors how to use the new Mobile Apps so they will be able to share them with the 14 area Stake Presidents!

    This week we also received a letter from Mary Lou Roser!  She is a cousin of Grandpa Croft’s.    We first learned about her & received her address in May.  I had requested thru Findagrave some photos of headstones of the Sinclair family in Ohio, the family of Jane Labelle Sinclair Croft.(that is Grandpa Croft’s mother)   A volunteer went to the cemetery on Memorial Day to take the photos of the headstones.  Mary Lou Sinclair Roser, age 88, was there decorating the graves while the volunteer was taking pictures of them. He talked to her & told her what he was doing.  He shared her address with us & we have been in contact.  She remembers coming to Wyoming to visit Grandpa & Grandma Croft & remembers the family.   Bro Croft remembers her visit, he was about 10, & he also remembers her occasionally calling.   We have talked to her on the phone, it has been lots of fun & she is so excited to have some other family to talk to.   She & her husband, Dick Roser have 2 children, one is deceased, & their daughter has three children, ages early twenties!  We have shared pictures of our family, & she is sending pictures of her family!   She also has some older pictures of the Sinclair family that we don’t have! We are excited to see them.   We have also found pictures of her among photos which Grandpa Croft had.  There are also unidentified pictures  which we hope she can help us identify! We will keep all of you posted & share the pictures & info which we receive!

    The week has been a busy one with a few extra’s along the way, several trips to the Big Horns,  & I got a perm one day!  Dad has several new audio stories in FS since his snake experience on the mountain . . . ck them out!  There has also been a few preparations for Big Sky!  It will be here before we know it!  So excited to see all of you!    Love you all so very much!   Bro & Sis  Croft

Young Rattle snake at 6000' base of Big Horn Mtns

We have taught classes today about using the apps to record our audio stories!

Dearest Family!

        Happy Anniversary to Ethan & Bekah!   Happy Birthday, Vicki on Tuesday   &   14th Happy Birthday to Talon on Wednesday! 

   Sunday I am always so very thankful for the opportunity to renew covenants with my Heavenly Father each week! I am grateful for His tender mercies & forgiveness for my short comings! We have had a great day!    We have taught classes today about using the apps to record our audio stories!   We have also taught classes about Descendency Research.   It makes it so easy to find new people to add to Family Search then we can do temple ordinances for them.  It is getting easier & easier each day!

  It was also so great to meet with our Youth Family History consultants!  They are a great group of young men & women!  We reviewed with them the techniques of adding photos,  also pointing out how they can help the people to correct problems which can occur!  Several stayed to asked specific questions & learn more!

    Yesterday a Sister shared with me how much fun she had had learning about her family in FamilySearch.   She was preparing for a talk on Sunday on pioneers!  It is so easy to find this now!  Later that same day she helped her granddaughter, age 9, add an audio story to FamilySearch.  What a treasure that will be to the granddaughters family in the coming years!

    Bro Croft had a special moment this week helping an older brother add his first audio story!   After giving him some basic instruction he decided to do his first story!  After speaking the first several sentences about his grandfather, the tears began to flow!  The spirit witnessed to him that this was a great work, one that is important to do! 

    Our Tuesday evening class on the Apps was great!  I had one of the Youth consultants helping in my class!  It was so great to have her youthful spirit & expertise with the handheld devices. We have been in several homes this week helping with this same thing!  As you can see, it has been a busy week with 3-4 appointments every day!

    Saturday was the “Big Horn Lake Day” at Horseshoe Bend.  We enjoy helping with that!  It is so great to see the people returning from the free boat rides so amazed at the beauty of this amazing world we live in! The weather was a little cooler this year – so was a very enjoyable day!  Also had an uneventful trip to the Mountain preparing Bro Croft for Big Sky!   Hope to get food plans from all of you this week!

    We send our Love to all of you!   CTR    Bro & Sis Croft

All morning we were excited to see Nathan!

Dearest Family,        Happy Birthday, Ky!  This is a big one, he is now 16!

    What a wonderful day it has been!!!! All morning we were excited to see Nathan!  He had arrived home in Lovell very early this morning, 4:00 a.m. ish.   While we were in Cowley today, abt 11:30, we decided to listen to Jake Jones, a grandson of Ed Jones, who was reporting his mission!   He is also a very good friend of Nat’s.  We moved chairs into to the back of the overflow area to listen & someone reached back to shake Bro Croft’s hand!  It was Nathan. He, Whitney & Talon, had come to listen, too.  I jumped up to give him a hug! After another FH class, we returned to Lovell 2nd ward to hear him speak!    He did a great job!  Had a couple more classes & then it was off to the Grant home for dinner!  What a great evening with family!  Rob, Michelle, Krysta & Josh, Allen, Amber & family, and the extended Grant family, in all over 60 people.

    This has been an exciting week!  Library Day was especially busy,  during the 3 hrs we were there we helped seven people!  One sister was helping two others learn to index & I was just the support system!  It was great, but very busy!  We have met several times this week with a couple our age who are being sustained as Stake FH Consultants.  They just got new tablets & we have helped them get them all set up! It was fun to have her share about an experience she had this morning, trying to solve a problem with an ancestor – she just happened or was inspired to read a story posted in FS – and there was the answer!

        Our Memories App classes have been so exciting!  This week there were nine, including us.  This group was amazing, some were consultants, learning about the Apps, but all were helping each other! They were all so excited, had fun & caught the vision of recording their audio stories!  When the spirit testifies of these things it is so great!  We also had a FH Consultant class this week & helped with it!  My elderly Sister is adding pictures & is amazed! While at the Living Center, we happened to mention how our Rave had died & Bro. S  told stories for an hour & a half about his Father’s mechanic shop & his experiences with fixing cars & tractors!   He had said he was just about out of stories!

    It was so nice to  work with others this week – even tho we visit some every week, they are always amazed at all the things they can do!  Bro Packer’s funeral was great on Friday!  So much doctrine about the here after is taught at the funerals of the Apostles!

    We did have several afternoons free & I completed Rosie & Kenny’s Quilt!   We have also went to the mountain several times this week, had a nice visit with Joy & Tchae tonight!  Bro Croft was able to talk to Aunt Betty. She has had two Cochlear implants recently. She was able to talk a little better. We are so grateful for that!

    I’ll try later this week to sent out info on numbers for Big Sky & the schedule!   We love you all,   CTR  See you all soon!

    Love you all – Bro & Sis Croft

We hope each of you had a wonderful 4th of July!

Dearest Family   

    Happy Birthday to Marlene on Monday & Happy Birthday to Amber on Wednesday!

Hope you each have a wonderful day! We hope each of you had a wonderful 4th of July!  We do live in a wonderful country! We spent part of the day at home, staying out of the heat – 100 degrees several different days!  Mid-afternoon we received a call from a family traveling thru the area, returning home to Utah from their vacation.  She had had family who had lived in this area, Great grandparents I think and wanted to take pictures of where it might have been.  We met them at the FHC, learned a few things & made a few phone calls. We did locate where their homestead might have been & were able to take them to that place east of town!  They then went on to Byron, where the great Grandfather & Mother are buried!  We’ll do some calling next week & will probably be able to find out more info which we can email to them.  We enjoy these experiences so much! We enjoyed the Annual Rael Barbeque, it is a fun event in Cowley. It is fun to visit with friends & enjoy great food! did n’t stay for the fireworks tho – I did watch a few on TV!

    This week one of the older Sisters that we help each week decided to learn to scan pictures!  Bro Croft had installed software on her computer some time ago.  We showed her all the steps & wrote instructions for her, then we went thru them step by step!   I called her several days later to see how she was doing & she had scanned 30 more all by herself!  She planned to do more during the rest of the  week.  What an amazing 88 year old! This week we will teach her how to put them in Family Search!

    Our Memories App class on Tuesday evening was great also!  There were a few less people because of the holidays, but one on one is always best & we were a little short on consultants to help! Today in most of our classes worked on recording also!  Had several sisters today who are going to family reunions this next weekend & plan to records the stories which are told!  They will do great!

    At the Public Library, R H had been reading a book in a comfortable chair, it’s a cool in there, it happened to be abt a 100 degrees outside.  Abt 2:45 he brought his bulging brief case over to where I was, I have helped with this briefcase before!  We solved several questions which he had & then were finishing up!  He pulling a small book out of somewhere – titled Authors of 1927  or something like that.  “my grandmother has a poem in here which she wrote!”    The book fell open to the page.  “Brother R H” I replied, “you should read that poem on the Memories App & Bro Croft could help you put it in Family Search”  Bro Croft had just happened to come to where we were, & the two disappeared to a quieter corner of the Library.  Bro R H practiced reading the poem once, them recorded it. He is so excited, he is a great story teller & has had a very interesting life, is a convert to the church.  He is converted to the idea of recording his experiences!  What a special experience it was! We see the Lord’s hand working in so many ways each week!

    We have also had some special times this week with a couple who are thinking about doing an “at home mission”. They are learning the basics of FS & will soon be able to help others.

    We took our first trip to the mountains on Friday – it is the beginning of at least weekly trips to help G’Bob get acclimatized to the higher elevation! I have included a picture of a Blue Grouse which strutted across the highway in front of us & posed for a picture!

    Remember we love you all, CTR & it  is not long until BIG SKY!        Our love Bro & Sis Croft