It was another busy evening in the Family History Center!

Dearest family! 

    Another great week!  We love all the conferences, they are so very great & inspiring!  It is also so very nice to get back into the routine of our regular meeting schedule! We enjoyed the classes we have taught today & the open library time! There were miracles today in a new group just starting, people who are obedient to our Stake President but scared to death of the computer! Youth Consultants met at 6:00 p.m. They have an indexing project that they will be starting in the Stake soon!

    It was another busy evening in the Family History Center!  3-4 of the youth usually stay, & other patrons.  The Sister Missionaries were in with  two new converts getting their info into Family Search!   So special to work with them!

    The rest of the week has been busy also, with all kinds of things.  On evenings when we don’t have an appointment we go up on Snells place to hunt for deer – so far they are staying clear of us!  We see a big bunch of bucks, but our license's are for does! We will keep working on this, since our season lasts until the end of the year! There also were maintenance projects like new tires on the Rave! A hair cut for me, that’s a necessity, occasionally! We have had appointments this week also!  We attended the funeral for Laura Nation, one of Grandma Crofts cousins.

    Time in the temple on Friday was so wonderful!  Would sure like to figure out why it has to be so very cold in there, tho!

    It was great to have Allen, Amber & children here on Saturday!   Allen, Dad, Melvin & Ira went fishing in the morning caught some big saugers but only landed one 4 lber.! Myself, Amber, her sister Rachelle, Camille, & Leanne went to a craft fair!  Saw some pretty things! In the afternoon, Leanne, Amber & I went to a Luncheon – Baby Shower for Rhonda!  That was so very nice, enjoyed visiting & seeing her pretty gifts! Dad had found some pictures which he helped Melvin & Ira enter into Family Search!

    Late afternoon, Bo & McKinzea came by!  She had a project for school, taking pictures, an assignment. Leanne & I helped with that.  We have several 80 yr+ folks we work with each week, they are so thrilled to be able to do indexing or work on their trees. It is so special to share their success and increased spirituality. They are so grateful for the new ways even though they  need constant consultant help that we offer so they can do it! We are so thankful to be able to be there for them each week! ! !

    Our love to all of you & CTR    Bro & Sis Croft

    

Today was a wonderful day! It was our Stake Conference!

Dearest Family,

    Today was a wonderful day!   It was our Stake Conference! It was a broadcast to 61 stakes in Colorado, Wyoming and Montana, the same for all of us here in Lovell, the Fike’s in Laramie, & the Croft’s in Worland!  Each Stake President spoke during the first half hour.  In Lovell, we especially enjoyed our Stake President’s message. He spoke about his experiences with Family History.   We have had several FHE with them.  He was amazed to see his 4 year old daughter having a ball uploading pictures with Bro Croft. He shared a story of a his tall, slender ggggrandfather which we had found. He was an early convert to the church, a stone mason, & had medical abilities. He could fix a hair lip, set broken bones, etc.   Pres Caldwell is a medical Doctor & tall & slender! He also testified of the joy he felt when he found family who needed temple ordinances & the privilege it was to do them!  Then, what a spiritual feast it was to hear Elder Craig Christiansen, Elder Bednar, Elder Richard G Scott, & Sister Cheryl Esplin, who is a native of Lovell speak. Their messages were so very special!  We were spiritually fed at the Saturday night meeting, when 3-4 high school youth spoke about Hastening the Work, sharing the gospel with friends at school, one sharing thru social media, one, her testimony of FH & doing baptisms for them. The other talks were all so special also!

    And that is just two days. We had a whole week of great activities! Had our normal appointments & new ones!   It was our week to work in the FHC on Wednesday!  We had patrons in, one for each consultant to help. They had tougher questions which needed one on one help!  One afternoon, we met with a Primary Presidency & several of their cub scout & activity day leaders to help them see how FH can help their youth!

    Our Sunday ended this evening with a 6 to 7 pm meeting with our 12 Youth FH Consultants.   They are a fired up group & want to do a Indexing challenge! After the meeting 6 of them came in the FH Center to learn more about indexing & do other family history.  We also had 14 other patrons working and finding success. A sister brought a non member Uncle who is visiting from Hawaii in! We were all helping 2 or 3 patrons at once and they were patient in their needs.

    It was wonderful to have time today to call Joy and Allen’s families for a visit on the phone! We tried to catch up with Vicki’s too but they were not at home. Its been a beautiful fall week with great colorful sun rises almost every morning and the trees still have lots of fall colors too!

    We feel so blessed to enjoy this great work! 

 CTR & have a great week!  

  Our Love, Bro & Sis Croft

Hydroponic tomatoes in our greenhouse

Today has been wonderful,

Dearest Family,     

    Wow, Bro Croft’s plants are growing great in the greenhouse!  He has tomatoes blooming!  We have had a little more time this week for things at home!  Several people were sick! I had a lower back which was all messed up but several trips to the Chiropractor have helped it out!  We have also been able to trace a quilt pattern onto plastic, then onto the fabric for Ethan & Bekah’s quilt! I so appreciate lots of help with all of this from Bro Croft. All the tracing, marking & putting on the frames goes so much faster when there are two people!   I actually quilted on it a little on Saturday afternoon! Deer hunting is also starting & Bro Croft set up his blind up in Snell’s field between the canal and the corral.  He sat in it Saturday evening – with a big muley buck grazing 20 yds all around him.   I was in the Pickup watching deer move all around him.   I also had a skunk & the cows by me.  Fun evening.....an the coyotes howling..... the does came into the field tonight by the canal so they were to far away for shooting. We also went shore fishing at Crooked Creek parking lot Friday morning. Since my hips were still sore getting in & out of the boat did not sound fun. We were able to catch two nice cat fish . . . 2 and 5 lbers. Awesome fall colors and lots of birds to listen to and watch, no wind, just a great 3 hrs to be out!

 

    Today has been wonderful, so blessed to be able to attend Sacrament meeting & partake of the sacrament.   We had several great classes today!  When we came back to Lovell from Cowley this afternoon, it was open library for several of the wards – there was Kenny & Rosy – working on FH, they are visiting for the week. Rosy found all kinds of treasures in findagrave. Shortly after they left, Ryan & Rhonda came in & I had fun helping them.  They each added the other side of their families to their trees. Sure great to see all of them.  Also others of the Warnocks & Grants.  This evening was busy in the center with several youth there, a grandmother & the consultants all working together – learning & finding special family!

    Wednesday evening was a fun evening with a Young Women’s group in Cowley.  They each were doing different things, adding photos & stories, finding names for the temple, connecting their trees so they could get to the deceased ancestors!  It is so very special when that “spirit” touches them & they catch the vision of it all!

    Another young man found names for the temple last Sunday, he said it was his older sisters birthday this week & she wanted to go to the temple.  Well, Saturday,  just two of them went to Billings to do baptisms & had a wonderful time.  He testified of how very special it was! 

    CTR & our love & prayers to all of you,     Bro & Sis Croft

 

We always love General conference!

Subject: October 5, 2014

 

Dearest Family,

    What a wonderful day!!! We always love General conference!  It has been a great weekend! What a blessing it is to be able to watch & review conference so quickly!  Bro Croft & I went to Horseshoe Bend on Saturday & started listening to conference 20 minutes late!  When we arrived home we were able to watch what we had missed! We did catch one catfish & it was a calm, clear & warm fall day! The hornets thought it was nice, too. One stung me!   Technology is so great!  Already we have listened to several talks containing things we wanted to hear again & things we had missed! We enjoyed having Allen, Amber & family come this a.m. to watch, then dinner at Darece & Ken’s – was nice to see everyone there!  We then enjoyed the afternoon session at home! 

 

   The FHC was busy tonight, three youth, several consultants & several other patrons. All were busy, learning & accomplishing great things!  Bro Croft worked with one patron with whom he had had a special spiritual experience!  In his words; Early last week I received an email from Sister Linda NeVille asking if I knew how to scan and get the postage stamp size photos from an old pedigree chart useable in family search. I opened this email at 5 am that morning, read it and immediately received the inspiration on how to do the process. I quickly wrote myself some notes as the thoughts came into my mind then minutes later tried the process using two windows programs I had used for years but not in the way that I had just been instructed. The small photos came out larger and looked great! I emailed the sister in Byron with the results asking her how it looked to her. With in minutes I received an email back (this is 6am) thanking me for answering her prayer, thru tears she had written back to me expressing her gratitude. Sister Croft was up by then and I showed her the process and the emails. Later that day I called the sister to tell her that the Holy Ghost had given me the process early this morning  and I wrote it down and did it. I told her I was grateful to have been able to be the means for the Lord to answer her prayers.  I have come to know over my life that the words spoken by Pres Spencer W Kimball years ago are true, that the Lord often sends a faithful person to answer our prayers. I try to always be willing and “spiritually up” so the Lord can use me to help answer someone  prayer! Each day we receive a witness that the Work is hastening and we need to be prepared to move the work to the next level!

    It has been a fun week, with some special experiences!  Brother Checkett’s at the NWC Institute in Powell has been teaching a Family History Class!  Tuesday & Thursday we were invited to teach the computer side of it.  It is a little difficult to have hands on experience for 30 + students but we exposed them to it!  Did the basics on Tues & a little about Descendency Research.  On Thurs we explained Puzzilla & Indexing!  They are starting an Indexing Challenge in their ward so that will be fun! It was so grand to meet & teach the college young people!

    Had our group of regulars, people we do every week!   We were able to shuffle them around, even with the trips to Powell & still get everyone in!  Some were adding photos, others indexing, some just cleaning up their trees.  It was also the week for the Family History consultant’s training meeting!  Answered questions which some had asked us about!  Had a nice morning in Cowley with several patrons.  Both are beginning to get results & find info. 

  

    Last week & next,  we are working with a YW’s group in Cowley, looking for temple names & I think this week maybe adding photos!  We finally caught up with Dak and Joy for a wonderful visit on the phone last evening, they are a very busy family with their new back to college life style.   A very hard freeze on Thursday evening has lots of leaves falling and much new snow on the mountains. . . . it’s fall for sure.

    It is a great work, we love it!    CTR & have a great week!   Love you all – Bro & Sis Croft