Dearest
Family!
No
this isn't an April Fools Joke! i really am writing a
letter! The month has gone by so very quickly- I find it hard
to believe! But it has been a very busy one with all
kinds of activities!
We
have missed a few birthdays & an anniversary! Happy
Birthday to Connor Hellberg on March
1! Dak & Tchae on March 20,
Leanne on March 23, Aunt Kathy on March 24! Happy 14th
Anniversary to Allen & Amber on March 30!
Happy
1st Birthday to Lexi Grant on April
7th & Happy 12th Birthday to Ira on April
8!
Oh
- by the way, we are expecting also! The first of March we
realized that a pair of Great Horned owls are nesting in the big Blue
Spruce tree at the top of our drive way. We can see her from our
front door. I saw the mate bring in a meadow vole to feed her,
told Dad and we quickly watched together the feeding routine. This
week the chicks should hatch. We are excited to watch them over the
next many weeks. They will need lots of groceries and our pigeons and
cottontail rabbits may be get on the menu! Dad will mount our
wireless webcam on the house so we can see better!
We
had a wonderful time in Worland with Leanne at her baptism! So glad
we could share her special day!
It
was also great to have the Fikes visit during their Spring Break!
Family here in Lovell got together one evening for dinner! They also
spent time in Laurel looking for a home there. We are so
excited that they will be there.
A
report on Michelle - on March 21, she had hip surgery & is doing
great! She was out & about at our Family Dinner
yesterday!
This
past month has been so great! We have been working with
three couples who have been called as Stake TFHConsultant-Lead
They will work in their stakes teaching the leaders,
Ward TFHConsultants & exciting the people around them.
All are so excited & great at working with the people! It is so
amazing how the Lord works!
It
was fun one Saturday to
teach in the Cody Family History Fair - we were able to fill in for a
couple who were called out of town due to a death in the family!
A blessing to be able to help! We enjoyed teaching, of course,
about the Apps. Dad did the Memories app & I did the Family
Tree App! Then on
Sunday we spoke in three wards in Billings & did a 2
hr training in the evening! That was just about enough for one
day, but the Lord blessed us with the needed energy! Another
weekend we stayed with a Lead couple, did their One-on-One experience
& spoke in the 2 Laurel wards! They helped us with our 2hr
training for leaders in the late afternoon!
Then
last weekend we went to Absaroka, it is a very small branch in
Montana! While I was speaking, Dad was inspired to change our
planned presentation to a Family History Experience (just a very
basic class about all we can do in FH) We did this with all of the
branch, youth & adults! It was one of those really amazing days
when the spirit is there to testify to greatness of this work.
An eleven yr old young man summed it all up as he shared how the
blessings of doing FH will help him! All of his
great-greats help him & his own stories & experiences will
help his grand-children & great-grandchildren! "Out of
the mouths of Babes!" we were taught! Our Stake
Leads were there with us & all of us had special experiences
during the practice time!
On
one Sunday after
I left the stand, the Bishop said to Dad, "I need to apologize
to Sister Croft, he went on to say, "She mentioned the name of
the App, I down loaded it, & there are two names, in my office on
the printer, which I found & printed while she was speaking!"
Dad accepted the apology and told him he had got the message!
This Bishop will certainly fire up his ward
in the coming weeks!
Last
Wednesday we had fun helping with an Activity Day group of girls, so
fun & they get so very excited!
What
an amazing weekend this has been! General Conference was
wonderful with many new things announced! We have enjoyed so very
much watching it, having Allen, Amber & family here & dinner
at the Grants. Just the basic changes: no more HP groups all will be
in an Elders Quorum. Home teachers and visiting teachers will be
ministers now. No monthly message from the Ensign, just pray to meet
the needs of your assigned families. It can be a text, email, phone
call,athletic event, just drop by, service project, whatever the
family needs. No monthly report just quarterly interview with your
leader. YW Miamaid and Laurels will go with older sisters to visit
their assigned sisters. Its all about loving and serving the one as
Jesus would! By 4
pm on
Sunday all the new changes were on the LDS.org website
and we had received an email about it too as Elder Holland had said.
And
what a great way to end General Conference, to have our Prophet bless
us all -
He
challenged us to study the talks and then - He invited
all God's children on both sides of the veil to come unto their
Savior, receive the blessings of the holy temple, have enduring joy &
qualify for eternal live. Eventual exaltation requires our complete
fidelity now to covenants we make & ordinances we receive in the
house of the Lord. He then announced 7 new temple &
said, "These particular temples probably wouldn't affect our
lives but your time in the temple surely will. In that spirit I
bless you to identify those things you can set aside so that you can
spend more time in the temple. I bless you with greater harmony
& love in your homes & a deeper desire to care for your
eternal family relationships. I bless you with increased faith in the
Lord, Jesus Christ & a greater ability to follow Him as His true
disciples. I bless you to raise your voice in testimony as I do now.
That we are engaged in the work of almighty God. Jesus is the Christ.
This is His church which He directs thru His annointed servants. I so
testify with my expression of love for each of you in the sacred name
of Jesus Christ
We
feel so blessed to know there is a prophet on the earth!
Our
love to all of you & CTR
Mom & Dad
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