It is hard to believe it has been just one week since I last wrote – so many things have happened!

Dearest Family!   

    Happy Birthday, today to Kaitlyn, she is 17!   Happy Birthday to Allen on Wednesday!  Happy 22nd Anniversary to Dak & Joy on Friday!

    As you can see, I am a little slow with a letter this week!  Sunday was a wonderful day but a long one!  When we arrived home last evening we both crawled right into bed!

    It is hard to believe it has been just one week since I last wrote – so many things have happened!  Things like going Visiting Teaching, having Visiting Teachers, a two wonderful mornings on the lake, it was like glass & we even caught a catfish big enough to eat! We had a wonderful FHE on Skype last Monday with a HP group leader & his wife, a Primary President!  They are so excited about FH & finding their own names for the temple.  They have a vision of what it can do for their family & in their callings for others!  Also skyped with a sister whom I met at the temple & she has wanted some help!  We also received calls from several people this week, ones in leadership positions which we have been trying to reach!  Prayers are answered!

    Many of you know Myra Sessions  visit with her family & to go to her funeral on Tuesday!  Then Tuesday afternoon some of us hosted a Surprise Birthday Party for Janet Nazer!  It was wonderful!  She was so completely surprised & we had an amazing group of over 30 people!  Janet is a dear sister who doesn’t have any close family, but she does have so many friends & it was so special.  She says she is still on a high even this long after the party  & we are all so glad!  This morning at 7:30 a.m. she called to tell us about all the things she is doing on her new Fire Tablet! Several of us went together to give her one.

    Friday Bill & Kathy came – it is always nice to have them here!  Saturday was Betty’s funeral, we feel blessed to have known her & what an example she is to all of us! A very sharing person!  It was special time together with family. Dad has posted many things in Family Search, you might enjoy looking there!

    Sunday was a truly amazing day!   It was the first in the wards of the Billings East Stake!  They have a High Councilman, Bro LC, over FH, who has caught the vision & is really magnifying his calling!  We arrived at the chapel at about 8:50am, just in time to attend the sacrament meeting at 9:00. A sister in the Restroom noticed my name tag & said, “ Oh, you’re Sis Croft,  Bro LC taught all of us on the Stake Council today how to find names using the apps.   I am so excited & motivated to get started again!!!”  After Sacrament meeting we visited with the Ward council in that ward & Bro LC came to that meeting with us!  It was the first time we had actually met him in person, we have always skyped with him & his family!  He shared his testimony of the work & how it was such an exciting thing in his home. That week he had went to the temple to baptize his daughter who had just turned 12 & had found her own names. Their family is teaching every one they come in contact with!

        Then an hour later in the next ward that meets in this same building, we again met with their ward council.  Today, in all of these wards we were teaching the spiritual blessings of the work, also sharing the info about how if new converts attend the temple to do baptisms during the first two months after their baptism, the retention rate is 80%.  When the meeting ended, the RS President, lingered & Dad felt inspired to sit down beside her.  She shared her experience.  She was baptized as a teenager & a wonderful family fellowshipped & nurtured her.  She said that was exactly how it had happened to her! She had went to the temple, doing baptisms as a youth. She was a textbook case. It was a very spiritual time as she shared this!  We hope as we return to this ward next week to do hands on, that she will be inspired to share her testimony!

     Then in the last ward which we met with, the stake president visited our meeting. (I think this is his home ward.) Bro LC has taught him and his family & they are finding their own names.  President shared his testimony & commented as we taught! This is a ward where one sister is providing all the names for the members to do. When we think about Elder Renlund’s challenge, “to find as many names as ordinances we do” & the blessings he promised, many people are being denied some very special blessings in this situation. His present & testimony were  so very special & just what the Lord wanted!

    At 5:30 p.m.  we arrived at the other Stake President’s home where he had invited members of his stake presidency, his own family, & several others to learn about finding names.  Again there were some special miracles which happened!  While all were attaching hints, one sister came to me, “look at this,” It was a baptism in Norway, a sister to her great grandfather & his parents whom she didn’t know.   A very special moment for her! And she continued to find other things.    Another sister, said “oh, I so want to find a name” but absolutely no references to temple ordinances were showing up on her tablet. Finally I realized that something was not right when an occasional error message would show up saying that a membership number had not been added to her account, thus no ordinances would show up, it was a public account! She couldn’t remember her password when she tried to sign in to add it.   In the end, we called SLC & she had two accounts!  Finally we solved the problem!   Now she is finding family who need their temple work done!  So thankful for inspiration & guidance!

    We are so very blessed & acknowledge the Lord’s hand in all we do!   What blessings there are!!!!! Love you all         Mom and Dad