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
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