April 27, 2014

Dearest Family,

    Monday – expected water company to work on water project today – Canceled time in public library. I had my lady whom I work with every week come to the house-was great!   No drillers, they had had problems down the road with the work there.

    Tuesday – Our Tuesday morning indexer canceled – She was not going to have electricity because a power pole was being replaced which had burned in a weed fire on Saturday.    Bob stayed at home in the afternoon, water drillers did come for 2 hrs.  I was able to go to a home, to help a sister who wants to get started!  She has a new laptop, very little computer experience, & loads of desire.  She has a family friend who passed away a year ago.  He was just getting active when he passed & he had asked her to do the temple work for his wife.  This is her main goal! Worked mainly on computer skills today!  She is a sweet heart! Had a great night in the FHC!

    Wednesday – They drilled a little this a.m. having trouble!    I went ahead & went to FHC meeting, then to a sister’s home!   She shared with me a special experience!   She had been looking for a note with a death date on it for some time. Had reached a point of frustration & just written to a relative to get it again.   Next morning, the note was on her desk!  Also helped another sister in the afternoon.

    Thursday – drillers here again,  broke their bit. Don’t know what they are going to do!  A ward FH consultant helped me in Cowley, since Bro Croft needed to be here at home today.   Had a great day in Cowley with several people!  I returned to help the sister with the new laptop.  We had some info on the wife, but lacked a marriage date & people we called didn’t know when it was.  As we were about to finish, a thought came to call the court house!   She picked up the phone, & had the info in just a few minutes, and a copy in the mail to her house! We felt so blessed!!!

    Friday – No drillers expected – Hurray we can go to the temple!   We have been wanting to do sealings so today was the day!  It was so special!   Our sealer was a member of the Temple presidency and he ask about our FH mission. And in between doing the sealings, one of the witnesses (an ordinance worker) was fascinated & wanted to know about our mission. Could we help him? He had many questions & had tried to get them answered to no avail.  He lives in Laurel, so we stopped on the way home to help him for 2 1/2 hrs.  He & his wife are both converts, 30 years ago. It was an amazing story!  

    Saturday – Helped at the Earth Day Program in town!  Had several people ask about our mission & what we did? Bro Croft helped our friend in Laurel by phone for several hours!  Had a lot of wind and rain thru the night. 

    Sunday – We love them, it was a great day with several classes & open library times, new  people in, Little miracles continue to happen, in the Lords time, in quiet & special ways! Bro Croft continued to help several new HP group leaders.  Wow, it has been amazing to watch them catch the spirit of the work.   Both have not been interested in the FH work, but the spirit of Elijah is quickly touching their hearts!  They were so enthused today in their ward FH classes! It was busy at the FHC last night some youth also in finding names!

   Our love goes out to Kathy Croft whose mother passed away last night!

    Sorry I am late, our router died last night!   Have it replaced now!

 

Our Love & CTR    Bro & Sis Croft

We pray that your Easter was a wonderful one

April 20, 2014

Dearest Family! 

       We pray that your Easter was a wonderful one filled with love for your family & of your Savior Jesus Christ.

     We have had a wonderful day of worship & service!  What could be better! Today was filled with our normal Sunday schedule. Sacrament Meeting – 4 classes, so very nice to be back to helping people!  Brother Croft had the opportunity to work with two new High Priest Group Leaders.  I spent time with new consultants, reviewing lessons & Family search. Tonight, also was busy in the FHCenter.  In one class today, a sister had brought a non-LDS friend. We worked together showing her about Family History.  She was totally amazed at what was available & how one could view original records & learn about our ancestors!   Several today were totally amazed & grateful for the amazing pictures, stories & records that are available! An interesting success, Bro Croft scanned on the copy machine -  to a thumb drive, a tattered, handwritten person history. It was 17 pages, both sides. Now the patron can add this to Family Search! What a treasure!  I am so grateful for all the tools we have in this day, computers, indexed records & indexers,  modern day technology – what a blessing it all is. Again the spirit witnessed to many today thru the power of pictures, especially, the greatness of this work! We witnessed their hearts softened & caught up in the work!

 

    Our weekday activities were much the same, maybe a few less appointments, but still so special. Wednesday was our day to cover the FHC. I had a great day with several patrons &  consultants at the FHC. One was a convert some years back & things are just beginning to open up!  So-o- fun when the spirit is there!

 

    Bro Croft had a Big Horn Lake Issues Group Meeting that day also. One man has at times been very one-sided about the lake issues but still he and I have become friends. Bro Croft shared:  “I had the opportunity to share FH with this non-LDS Montana friend. His eyes were riveted to my name tag prompting him to ask about FH.  He spoke of how recently he had a constant drive to get know about his ancestors. He couldn’t get it out of his mind lately & wondered if I could help him. With a group growing around us, I shared how one can do FH now and that I  could help him. We are continuing to communicate on FH by email. Its wonderful when the Holy Ghost prompts all people concerning their heritage!!

     Friday & Saturday were so very special!  Joy, Ky, Symphony, Kenya, & Daeja came & spent the night with us!  Dak, Chalin &friends were making a trip to Laramie. We so appreciate all the help they were – yard work, plumbing, oil change, etc.  Darece, Talon & Kaitlyn also pitched in Friday afternoon.  We had fun making marshmellow Easter eggs, playing games, fishing, even a Treasure Hunt on Saturday a.m.  Thanks for all of your service to us each week! The pond was a busy place this weekend, Bro Wellman also brought some of his family out both days to fish and had a wonderful time!

  

   Water line still isn’t here yet. We are hoping they finish up down the road because we are next! We’re staying close to home today, anticipating their arrival to bore under the highway into the greenhouse so that it can be hooked up.  Ky & Joy both helped Dad with some plumbing in the house!

 

    The weather is beautiful!  The daffodils are blooming in front of the house, WOW!!!!  Hoping to do a little weed burning this a.m. We love you all, have a great day & CTR        Love Bro & Sis Croft

 

 

Today was great!

April 13, 2014

Dearest Family,

    Happy belated Birthday to Ira, he turned 8 years old on Tuesday!!!!!  Happy Belated Birthday on Wednesday to Kirena!!!!!  Happy Birthday this Tuesday to Chalin!    We love you all!

The weeks seemed different – the last two Sunday’s have been General & Stake Conferences!  We are out of sink & we are ready to get back into our normal routine, even tho it is busier!

Today was great!  Many special words of council, & again we heard the words relating to FH & temple work.    From the Billings Montana temple, youth were challenged to go to the temple weekly, any time of the day, without an appointment for baptisms!  What a blessing that is for them.  With the new youth Temple Recommend it makes this possible!

    Sister Niedens, an assistant matron in the BMT, spoke today!  She prefaced her comments by saying, “at 3:00 a.m. this morning I was inspired to change my talk for today!”   She told of being sealed to her parents this past week.  She then went on to tell about the importance of sharing our memories of our family in Family Search.  She challenged the youth to asked a grandparent to tell them a story about their grandparents  or parents & record it in FS.   We each remember special stories about parents & grandparents or other relatives. When we are gone, the stories will be gone! She also testified of the blessing which technology is & how it is for the Lord’s work.  We each make the choice, will it bless our life or drag us down under Satan’s influence?  Several sisters visited with us about helping them in the coming weeks.  That will be great!  President Niedens counseled us to help other members of our stake with their temple names, for the Lovell Wyoming Stake box is overflowing.  One young Women has found ?00 names.   We also have several adults in our stake who are converts with lots of names to do.

Dad was busy with two extra service meetings mid week. He held his last FOBHL Board meeting as President after 8 years in that position and also resigned from the board to become an Advisor and serve as board secretary. It has been a very successful many years for FOBHL plus all the years before working on Lake issues before FOBHL was formed in 2006 (FOBHL = Friends of Bighorn Lake). He encouraged the board to take FOBHL to the next level in the coming years! ! ! He also attended the annual Northwest College/LDS scholarship award meeting in Powell for 3 hours to award about 23 students over $55,000 this year. He has been on this committee for 20 years since this program began. I had a great visit that evening with Gaye, Frank & Evee.   Was a nice evening!

We went to HSBend cat fishing on Friday morning getting only a 6 lb carp that gave dad a good fight. We will use it for bait next time out. This will be our last time out there for awhile since it will be a mud flat by this weekend, as the USBR drain the lake to provide storage for the high snow run off this spring! We attended the funeral for Chuck Hayes at the Methodist church in Lovell. We have been working with 2 of his grand daughters in Cowley on FH plus Dad knew him well from helping him with High School science projects for many years.

    Saturday was a great day also!   We were in Worland with Ira for his baptism! What a privilege that was!   Dad spoke about the Holy Ghost in our life by sharing stories of how the Holy Ghost can help us in our daily lives. These stores are in his Family search  pages for all to read. Had a wonderful lunch with all the family.  Dad helped Melvin and Al with a project in the shop while I helped  Ira set up LDS Account.  He & Amber wrote about his baptism & then he uploaded a picture of he & his Dad taken just before his baptism. What a treasure this will be for his family in the coming years!

    It has been fun to exchange emails with a Cousin in Denmark, Jane’s great-grandmother & my grandfather are siblings. We completed a story & posted it in FS, both in English & in Danish. What an amazing world we live in, blessed to be able to communicate so quickly!

We love you all, CTR 

Bro & Sister Croft

It has been so great to hear our Prophet & apostles speak!

April 6, 2014

Dearest Family,

    It has been so great to hear our Prophet & apostles speak!   We love General conference!  Dad invited two brethern to attend priesthood meeting with him. It has been an inspiring weekend!  So refreshing to hear the Lord’s servants give practical, daily advise on how to enjoy the Gospel each day in an increasingly wicked world! Of course, this quote was a favorite, “Hastening family history & temple work in our day is essential for the salvation & exaltation of families” Quinton L Cook.

   It was wonderful to get together tonight for a family dinner! We missed a few who were gone to SLC & other places!   Our week has been a busy one with all the regular activities!   We did do a FHEvening this week with a family of six,  including two 9 year old sons who are excited about adding pictures! We met with the parents the week before to help them get names for the temple on Friday.

    Also helped a sister with her scanner!   We’ll check back with her this eek to see if our instructions are working.  It is great to be able to help people with the equipment they have so they can do it at home! Wednesday was a busy night with a FH Consultant training meeting, we just enjoyed this time & others did the training.  That is nice occasionally! Helped two youth groups, but had a little confusion!  We still are unsure what happened!  One ward was scheduled for the FHC.   Another ward, we thought was going to bring laptops so they could work in another room in the church & we were ready.  That ward was doing other things & another ward showed up expecting to work in the FHC.  We didn’t have enough room or computers.  A little confusing – so we were able to show them a John Bytheway Video about FH and a youth panel testifying of their success with FH in their stake!   We feel blessed that this doesn’t happen very often & that there are other things we can do!  Very grateful for the guidance that we receive at these times.

Hurray - It was perm  & haircut time!   Thanks Darece.    The weather was nice on Friday a.m. so we were able to get a little fishing time in at HS Bend ramp area.  Came home with two catfish, we are ready for some fresh fish to eat!!!!. Also enjoyed going to the Grand March for the Whitney’s prom! 

Hastening Family History and Temple Work in our day is essential for the salvation and exaltation of families!  Elder Quintin L Cook - Apostle

Have included a few favorite quotes from General Conference!  Thought you might enjoy!

We love you all & CTR

Bro & Sis Croft